This is the final project for the MA and continues my interest in what the industrial estate can tell us about contemporary social relations. My aim is to produce a series of images of the everyday, ordinary conditions of labour as these are represented in the built environment. The specific objectives that I have set […]
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Nick Hedges
Nick Hedges was born in 1943, a decade after such photojournalists and street photographers as Don McCullin and Shirley Baker and a decade before the ‘independents’ such as Martin Parr and Daniel Meadows. This may explain, in part, why he is so often overlooked as he does not fall easily into either of the two […]
Submission …
“How presentation / installation of final work can affect / contribute to / detract from meaning should be considered”. While probably good advice generally, this is a specific requirement of the assessment for this module. I have reflected elsewhere on my use of ‘alternative processes’ as part of this project and came to the conclusion […]
Bernd and Hilla Becher
The incursion and subsequent dominance of the ‘industrial’ as a template if not an ideal in domestic architecture is usually associated with the work of Le Corbusier (1887-1965) and is sometimes reduced to his often quoted remark, that “Une maison est une machine-à-habiter.” (Le Corbusier, 1923, Vers une architecture.) – ‘a house is a machine […]
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In the social sciences, one commonly used approach to the analysis of qualitative data is known as ‘grounded theory’. This approach, developed in the late 1960s at the University of California by two sociologists, Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss, works inductively from social data to construct a model or theory to explain the fundamental social […]
Platinum Printing
William Morris speaking on ‘Art and Socialism’ in 1884, expressed succinctly the political ambitions of the Arts and Crafts movement; It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and which should be done under such conditions as would […]
Robert Adams
Adams was born in New Jersey in 1937 and moved to Wheat Ridge, a suburb of Denver, Colorado, when he was 15. In 1956, he began to study English Literature at the University of Redlands, Southern California. Adams’ later writing reflects his deep appreciation of modern literature, particularly his affection for T.S. Eliot. In 1963, […]
John Myers: Landscapes without incident
John Myers grew up in Bradford and studied fine art, print making and sculpture in Newcastle between 1963-67. He went on to teach at Stourbridge College of Art and later at the University of Wolverhampton. Starting in 1973, partly as a way of getting to know Stourbridge, Myers took photographs of his new home town. […]
Looking at the overlooked
It should be obvious by now that I have not had any kind of career in photography. Mostly, my photography has happened while I was doing other things; family, work, travelling. I have gone to places, met people and taken photographs rather than gone to places and meet people to take photographs. This may partly […]
Crumlin Chronicle
GLOFA Navigation Cyf is a community organisation and registered charity. It was established in 2012 to act as custodian of the Crumlin Navigation, a derelict coalmine in the Ebbw Valley, South Wales. The charity aims to bring the 11 listed buildings still standing on the site into commercial and community use and to create a […]
