Project Development – Rob Jones Photography Critical Research Journal

Week 11 – The last push

Mirrors and Windows – one is Subjective and one Objective. One is the soul, One is the eye. Together they see the world. It is this thread that I have settled on for my submission of my WIP for this module. It is also a revelation in terms of my own practice. But how? Struggling […]

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Week 10 – Photography and fine arts

This week posted an opportunity for me to run my draft WIP portfolio past some of my peers and tutors. This gave me the chance to look at my initial ideas and see how well the worked flowed. I had put together a draft portfolio and sent over a link. Overall this was received very […]

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Week 9 – Who buys photography – part 2

This week I took a break from the river and my MA work to help clear my mind and decided to pursue one of my other photography passions. That of the great Somerset Illuminated Carnivals. The Somerset Illuminated Carnivals are highly regarded as the largest illuminated procession in the world. They run at night during […]

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Week 8 – Who buys photography – part 1

Following on from last weeks webinar with Sophie I have spent the last few days working on a methodology to fit within Nature and Wellbeing theme for my Work in Progress Portfolio (WIP). The challenge still exits where the subject matter is still very large, so I am now further simplifying down. Of the three […]

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Week 7 – Commercial Environment

This week’s webinar has been a complete revelation. I was able to speak with Sophie for around 45 minutes on my work and its direction. I was struggling with finding a common link to the work and an angle that would tie all the images together. I was finding that the collecting of images was […]

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Week 6 – Presentations

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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Week 5 – Stronger Together

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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Week 4 – Show and Tell

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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Week 3 – The Digital – New Possibilities

This weeks development work was focused on exploring concepts of underwater photography. I was looking to experiment more around ways to showcase the river from differing angles and bring the viewer into a more hidden world. One they would not normally experience. Inspiration has come from Tanja Deman’s work. In particular her work on Saltwater […]

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Week 2 – You are a Business

Outside of this week’s challenge I have been looking back through feedback from the last module – Surfaces and Strategies and developing the next stages for my work in progress portfolio. One key area of consideration for me was Yan Wang Preston’s – Mother River. This was the study of the Yangtze River – at over […]