Second Year
Exhibition: Platform for Emerging Arts 18 Platform for Emerging Arts 18 is a mixed-media exhibition showcasing the work of a diverse and exciting group of skilled national and international emerging artists, who have been selected for thei…
"The UK Photography event of the year" The Guardian "Photo London was created to give London an international photography event befitting the city’s status as a global cultural capital. Now in its fourth edition, Photo London has establish…
Today Jocelyn Allen gave us a talk, how she fell into the world of photography and how she showed her passion using this medium to convey her perspective. Allen got her first film camera when she was 7 years old. In her early works, she lo…
In this 12-weeks project, I experimented two ideas initially, one was a cat café, another one was blossom cherry trees. When I finished first half of 6 weeks, I decided to carry on the idea of cat café, visiting different cat cafes over UK…
In this workshop, we learn how to make a Coptic bound book and a protective slipcase. The Coptic binding as a historical, non-adhesive structure, still popular today for its flexible and beautiful format. It has hard covers and exposed sew…
Suki Chan is a London based artist and filmmaker who uses a range of media including installation, moving images, photography and sound to explore our perception of time and place. Her immersive mesmerizing film works draw the viewer into …
Today we looked at SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), SEO is the way we pop out from different site, which we would be able to get search ranking as well as the way you look to find through Google, or other search engines. Because Google ma…
Trees have long been a source of inspiration for artists. They can evoke a primal sense of wonder and the strong patters of their branches, bark and leaves consistently offer visually arresting subjects. When photography emerged in the mid…
In Davey’s talk, I like the project which is Looking for Alice, in addition, learning how you communicate with your subject matter through her talk. She mentioned: “The more you shoot, the more start seeing it.”, I think because it’s the s…
In this session, we focused on pricing structure, talked through different things on website pages and a head of start on web text. The pricing structure followed on working out the day rate.
Images reflects photographer’s inner world, showing all information about the person. I think Cian is the person who has warm kindness and strong heart, when looking at his works, you would get a sense of his unique romance in a specific w…
In order getting Canon 35mm f/1.4 lens which my tutor suggested to support low light condition without flash and external light, I started to find photographic hire company who offer my needs. I put ‘Canon lens for hire’ on Google search, …
In this session, we looked at the business identity, image copyright and some discussions of VAT. Starting with the way of registering as self-employed via HMRC and we were told the HMRC website including all information we need to be awar…
In this workshop, we explore three different book structure, a concertina book, a 4-hole stan binding and a single section case binding, as well as basic bookbinding techniques, including folding, making endpapers, sewing, covering and cas…
Today we focused on different web platforms, such as Wix, Weebly, SqaureSpace, Webs, Site123, Snappages and Yola. Some of the home pages designed beautifully while few looked a bit poor and unprofessional. I also looked at some articles re…
In this session, we talked about marketing an photographic business, starting with printed material which we are familiar with is business card, how to put your name out and we also looked at Guerrilla Marketing. In fact, marketing is peop…
This workshop will take us through the different stages of making a multi-section handbound book with hard cover, including folding, making endpapers, stitching, spine lining, covering and casing in. Moreover, we learn about paper grain, b…
To explore the circle of life as my idea in fiction project, the theme was the voice of nature, saying that there are various life on nature we have seen or never noticed, could whisper, screaming or stable conversation. I was planning to …
From the first session this year with Morag, we were informed the module of second year would focused into depth of photography business, including looking through how we structure the day rate as a professional photographers, working in p…
This year, we’ve got two book sessions with Kellie, the first one we made books by hade, creating a A5 size stich archive and experimenting paper folding. In the second session, we went through the highlight of zine culture and making A5 z…
In this session, we discussed about aspect ratios and how it uses on photography as well as adjusting by Photoshop. The aspect ratios of an image is used to describe the proportional relationship between width and the height. It’s commonly…
In the second workshop with Louis Little, we looked at colour profiles, but depth and layer mask function to play on images on Photoshop.
Louis Little as out digital workflow tutor, who assisted for Martin Parr. In his first workshop, he talked about how we organize digital files by using Adobe Bridge, an introduction of Metadata as well as making adjustment via camera raw i…
The purpose of exhibition is in remembrance of Po-Lin Chi, Chi was a Taiwanese documentary filmmaker, photographer as well as environmentalist. He started doing aerial photography after he finished the commission of shooting motorway, he w…
Tanaka Tatsuya has started posting miniature images every day since 2011, calling it "Miniature Calendar." More than 2,000 images have been posted on his website. The idea came from a comment from one his followers, saying that ‘I want to …
