Critical Research Journal

Obstruction Work In Progress
PHO702 Work In Progress / MA Falmouth University Obstruction, Henry Woide. 2021 I’m assessing my recent photographic experimentation using the ‘What?’ methodology “a useful and straightforward approach for structured reflection” (Simmons,2017). This approach simply asks What? So What? and Now What? in a practical approach to assessing the scope of…

Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs: Eurasia - Intent of the interview with The Photographers Gallery
PHO702 Contextual Research / MA Falmouth University Taiyo and Nico acutely describe and visualise their intent in this interview with the Photographers Gallery through the use of cinematography and stills to tell their story of their project Eurasia. The photo project continues on from their previous project the ‘The Great…

Evaluating Practice: Daniel Gustav Cramer’s Series Trilogy
PHO702 Contextual Research / MA Falmouth University Daniel Gustave Cramer’s Trilogy choice of images in Trilogy represents probably a tight selection of images from the work he made during this series. Each image has been created specifically to address his ideas behind the project and seems to be successful in…

The Gaze
PHO702 Contextual Research / MA Falmouth University My photographic gaze is often directed at the landscape itself though it is through a set of filters, my race, class, sex, economic and political background. Though like much of the new topographic photographers my work has often tried to assert a objective…

Faux Rock: Work In Progress
PHO702 Project Development / MA Falmouth University Faux Rock. Henry Woide, 2021. Faux Rock questions the authenticity of the landscape and whether this matters if it is real? these images depict a scene not out of place in a national park in USA, the snowy peaks of the climbing wall,…

Constructed Realities: Independent Reflection
PHO702 Contextual Research / MA Falmouth University Construction in the image and often in my subject plays an important role in the photographic work I produce. Though the construction usually comes from my subject and while my ability to construct what’s infront of me only comes from the ability to…

The Index and The Icon
PHO702 Contextual Research / MA Falmouth University Photography is changing, our understanding of this photographic language is evolving with the medium. The language can be seen as is iconic, indexical and symbolic (Pierce, 1914). This learnt language of how we see the world is inherent to photography, photographs disclose meaning…

My Practice: Work In Progres
PHO702 Work In Progress / MA Falmouth University My photographic practice is in a transitional phase from straight documentary imagery collecting and archiving objects of interest which question the construction of the British landscape no longer as a place of wilderness but a place of human construction. As Liz Wells…

The Social Photo
PHO702 Contextual Research / MA Falmouth University Chapter 1: Documentary Vision In the first chapter, Nathan discusses the fluidity of the image and ephemeral nature of the social photo. ‘Liquid economies don’t produce as many heavy things, like automobiles, but rather lighter things like software and information. Cameras and photos…

Informing Practice: Work In Progress
PHO702 Work In Progress / MA Falmouth University My photographic practice is currently informed through topographic and psychogeographical methodologies. It follows a route, the M25, an arbitrary parameter, and documents found landscapes by the road. These spaces exist in the green belt and are questioned through documentation, what is their…

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