Art, Health & Well-being

After a slightly tricky, delaid start we managed to get going fairly quickly.  The workshop went extremely well and many thanks to Clara for working with me on this one.  Feedback from the day will be collated and fed back to you either via moodle or directly.  Clara has taken the feedback with her to read.

I hope that everyone will digest and begin to use some of the techniques we explored in their own practice, as artists, as group facilitators, in your personal albums and collections....
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Tonight's lecture introduced the work of Joel Walker, associate of Judy Weiser and David Krauss.  Joel is a psychiatrist and a photographer.  He has developed his work from an intial 'induction' into photography in a year out, before starting his practice, on a world tour taking photographs all the way.  He has introduced two main areas of contribution to the field; photoprojectives (the use of photographs in exhibiton and later, in personal or group working).  The second contribution is usin...
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Christine Nunez, followed by Photostory and Lomography!  And, Miina's Most beautiful girl in the world.  Wow!
Maybe this was a bit too much, it seemed very packed but the conversations, discussions, questions and answers were good.

Met up with Clara and discussed the workshop format on Wednesday morning too.... very excited about doing this, especially with Clara.

Posted information about the Saturday workshop today - hope everyone does the homework.



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Returned from Finland full of inspiration so gave up on what was planned and show the slide show of one of the presentations and the Gallery in Turku.  All up on Moodle now.
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See the Finland Tab for more info.
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I hope that watching the video tonight made some things clearer.  There are many approaches to photography as research and what we saw tonight is a different approach, psychology based.

When I got home tonight I looked up Vivian Maier (Photographer/Nanny) and found

1.  A utube link to many of her photographs 
2.  A blog kept by the guy who has found her negatives and is scanning them with another load of photos. 

It occured to me that many of these photos would be highly suitable for a collecti...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11954293

There are a series of websites available on the BBC, linked to TV programmes (or iplayer).  This one about a documentary photographer's exploration of Africa and the Arabian Gulf. 
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U Tube link for Vivian Maier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWEDOnBfDUI&feature=player_embedded
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Even more people turned up - so I forgot to send that piece of pink paper around for everyone to sign in!  Will do it next week.  Delighted that we had chocolate biscuits to share and I was given a beautiful bunch of tulips too.  Thanks, thanks and thanks.  I needed a bit of appreciation!

Clarified the first assignment with a new diagram.  Lecture went well but we finished early which was good because there was enough time to talk to people.

Everyone seemed clear about the assignment for Week 2...
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