This blog is being made as part of an accredited education programme: MA Photography with Falmouth University
This week the focus was on draft Oral Presentations. I was not able to take part in the session so instead, I focused on looking further into ideas. One of the subjective areas has been the work of Jon Tonks. Especially around his methods of documenting a story through his images. I found his work […]
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These weeks challenge we were tasked with meeting someone new. And the task was to network with others. I feel that this week I shall combine both of these into one. Firstly networking. I chose to develop my online collaboration and find ways of interacting and meeting photographers from all over the world. I recently […]
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This week’s lectures are called Stronger Together .. and that has been very much the case. Following last weeks lows around my creative direction, I looked to revisit some of my old methods of photography. Growing up and over the last few years, I use to take images of what I saw to be interesting, […]
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For this week’s activity, we were asked to create a marketing plan for our practice which covers the next 10 weeks. 1.The marketing plan – draft 1.1 2. The vision The scope of my business idea is to develop a series of images that encompass the life, culture, people and journey of the River Otter […]
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Profound experiences of place. That’s one of the key ambitions for this project. But this week I have struggled to be profound. In fact, I have struggled even to be remotely a photographer. The river, by its very nature, is a big area and the opportunities numerous and at times overwhelming. I am very much […]
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In this week’s presentations, we looked at the importance of running a business properly to be successful. For the week’s activity, we were asked to think about the following three areas in relation to our own practice: A Mission Statement The Product The Market The following is a summary of my own business: A Mission […]
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Hello, I’m Rob Jones and welcome to my CRJ for the Sustainable Prospects module. Firstly we need to contextualise my practice in order to understand its direction and my aims for my master’s degree. I see my practice fitting within Conservation photography. More specifically the use of photography to connect the viewer to the natural […]
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This is my Oral Presentation for the Surfaces and Strategies module of the Photography MA at Falmouth University – PHO703 17:18 Part Time Study Block – August 2018.
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This module has been very much a roller coaster journey for me in terms of developing my practice. Leaving my day job in may 2018 gave me the time and space I needed to develop a range of photographic methods. Many were very much new to me. However family commitments meant I was traveling significantly, […]
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Additional photographic developments conducted during this module have been around experimenting with Astrophotography. A long held interest, but a genre that I had not attempted, Astrophotography for me was brought back to life during this module. Here I was introduced to Stephen Wilkes and his work on Day to Night as part of the re-photography and […]
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Carrying on from the developments listed in week 9, I continued to look at other photography methods over the summer of 2018. Half in – Half out photography is now rapidly becoming one of my favourite genres. Introduced to me during the Positions and Practice module, I have looked to get more accurate at this […]
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This module has been very rewarding in terms of learning around the surfaces and strategies that link to my practice. Most of my time over June – August was spent heavily experimenting and developing concepts around photography methods, that I had not attempted before starting this course – as well as refining existing ones. I […]
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For more background on this post, please refer back to week 5 entries on workshops. For the purposes of this weeks work I elected to bite the bullet and run a teaching workshops in photography. This was in the general practice of photography for someone who has just started. The idea of doing this made […]
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The publication element of this module has been of great interest. Sadly due to family commitments I have been unable to take part in many of the challenges during this module – which has noticeably held me back,. Instead I have been considering, at length, ways in which all three surfaces can aid in my […]
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Rob Jones Photography Critical Research Journal 