Lecture Notes


  • MPP
  • Feedback - formative evaluation and online from March
  • MA/PhD/PGCE
  • Sidney Cooper - series of work
  • Visit in March
  • Come together as a group
  • KS - evening event
  • Wednesday = street photography
  • Marketing
  • Publication
  • Ownership - investment
  • Next week - lecture on staged photography
  • Next week = tutorials
  • London Trip tomorrow
  • Framing - quality v price!
  • Turner
  • The ready made picture frame company
  • Series 3/4/5/6 Never see a series of 16 at Free range - why?

Lecture Notes


  • Dissertation - Last Formal Meeting
  • Sense of urgency - not just do it - live it
  • You can not take a month out for xmas
  • Take 5/6 days off and graft for three weeks
  • Some get a degree thru their delivery not their progress
  • Opportunity for MA needs 2:1 or First
  • To Do Lists - colour pen!
  • get everything out of your head
  • certain things cannot be put aside
  • 'what i have achieved'
  • do not start tomorrow...
  • Proforma due date guarantees feedback before xmas
  • Not marked but needs to be signed off
  • "This is what I intend to do..."
  • "This is why it is important..."
  • Relevance/significance
  • Who are the key people? Monographs
  • What are the key texts? Photo Books?
  • You sign to say you can get the resources
  • Coherent (not polished)
  • Next term is tutorials only - supervisor cannot chase us
  • 1500 words sent prior to tutorial
  • Also next term = Outside talkers and portfolio review

Guest Lecture: Ben Hills


  • Ben Hills
  • Long Days!
  • had to constantly hassle for work
  • 18 hour days as commercial assistant
  • American connection - Mary Ellen mark, Herb Ritts, Annie Leibovitz
  • Wanted creative input
  • Became location manager
  • Years of experience
  • Cannot make mistakes - people only remember them!
  • Get given a 'scamp' (idea/drawing/photo)
  • Toyota Hybrid - glowing, suburbia - Sam Hicks
  • Deli - open doors - Will Sanders
  • Hills & Lights for Talk Talk at dusk
  • Spent five days travelling around - Saltdean
  • All commercial photography requires council permits
  • Convincing land owners that we will be ok
  • Shhot gherkin from high level - less boring!

Guest Lecture - Laura Pannack


  • Winner of World Press Photo
  • D+AD
  • How to approach people
  • Advice from Mark Power = "Don't Stop Shooting!"
  • Enjoys projects that are a challenge
  • Camera is just a box!
  • Style? No - just do what is natural...

Lecture Notes


  • Estelle Rosenfeld
  • Performing art and visual art mix (exploring the boundaries)
  • Immersive theatre/promenade
  • "not sure where it was going to take me"
  • accumm - installation - repetition
  • any medium presented by slide
  • 'Take the Rose' video
  • Voucher (postcard) directs them to website
  • New project = 'Capture'
  • Questioning themes and the form
  • Photography and moving images
  • Teaser is 1 min, showreel is 6 mins
  • Timelapse app