Guest Lecture: Cian Oba-Smith

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…

Lens Hiring thought

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, …

Professional Contexts 2 – Branding business, contracts & forms

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…

Bookbinding workshop - Introduction of Booking binding

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…

Professional Contexts 2 – Web design, introduction to platforms

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…

Professional contexts 2 – Marketing a photographic business

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…

Bookbinding workshop – Multi-section Case Binding

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…

Narrative Fiction project & Bookbinding workshop with Kate Holland

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 …

Professional contexts 2 – Day rate & Cost of living

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…

Making: Books workshop

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…

Digital workflow – Aspect Ratios

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…

Digital workflow – colour, bit depth & layer masks

In the second workshop with Louis Little, we looked at colour profiles, but depth and layer mask function to play on images on Photoshop.

Digital workflow – Numbering Files

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…

Exhibition: OUR LAND, YOUR STORIES – In Memory of Po-Lin Chi

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- Miniature Life Exhibition

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 …

Landscape project

In Landscape project, we aim to find a place or subject as well as working with texts, understanding how text is used and connecting to our images. My concept is observing sailoring (life or doing work of the sailor) alongside the dock in …

Guest Lecture: Liz Orton

London College of Communication alumnus photographer Liz shared her experience of photographic images in this lecture.

Exhibition: Clyde Life

The Riverside Museum is one of the Scotland’s museum of transport and travel, they placed plenty of transportation objects and through this we know how life has been changed since the early life until mid 20th century.

Exhibition: Polygraphs

Polygraphs -Truths, evidence and the authentic voice I went to Glasgow during Easter break, first thing I always do in the city I’ve never been is visiting their galleries and museums to see what events are on the exhibition, Polygraphs ex…

Guest Lecture: Robert Darch

Robert Darch is interested in education, photographic practice and experience of places. On this lecture, he shared about his experience of photographic practice how he engaged with the subject and using his observation to photograph a spe…

Format Festival – Derby

Daniela Friebel (Germany): Bateria We visited The Format Festival in Derby. The theme of this year is HABITAT, exploring different views of documentary photograph.

Fashion Look Book project

Fashion you can buy, but style you possess – Iris Apfel Fashion photography is a wide area and it offers flexibility to express your thought. In this project, students aim to produce a Look Book with a series of photograph, this is the fir…

Tiffany & Co. – “Some style is Legendary”

“As a big campaign like this…many reasons why I think they should go the way I want them to go, not saying I’m right, just sating what I believe, because who’s to say I’m right, certainly not me, that what I believe and I can tell you what…

Guest Lecture - Joe Richards

Find your way into it.

Guest Lecture - Jyn San

“My work is never just about the hairstyle or make-up. I always consider the overall context.”

London Trip Exhibition-Edmund Clark: War of Terror & The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography

This thought-provoking exhibition brings together several series of work by artist-photographer Edmund Clark to explore the hidden experiences of state control during the 'Global War on Terror'. Looking at issues of security, secrecy, repr…

Employability/ connecting with audiences

In Morag’s lecture, we spilt into few groups and came up ideas that options for a photographer can work, also, discussing who is the client then she shared a useful website that giving information clearly about each creative industry, they…

Guest Lecture – Jack Latham

Welsh photographer Jack Latham was invited to our university and had the lecture talking about his previous projects and his first published book ‘Sugar Paper Theories’.

Guest Lecture – Murray Ballard

British photographer Murray Ballard spent 9 years doing his project ‘Cryonics’, documenting people and the technical process. We are happy to invite he to come and share his experience of photographic practice, and how he develops the idea…

Professional practice task

On the first professional contexts lesson, we were required to answer four questions below. 1.Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years from now? After 5 years I want to see myself at a reposible position with good knowledge and lots of expe…