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Sunday

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:10:07 +0100

I've just enable a response to blog system. Its appeared at the bottom of this page but I'm hoping it will automatically appear.

Saturday Conference 26th Feb 2011

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:34:22 +0100

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.

Week 7: Joel Walker - going deeper

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:24:18 +0100

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 using photographs (taken by Joel) to support people making photostories about life events (life is a journey). These photostories are stored on his web site - Portraits of the Human Spirit.

Week 6: What a lecture!

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:28:44 +0100

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.

Week 5: Gave up following my plan!

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:32:10 +0100

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.

Week 4: Away in Finland

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:25:58 +0100

See the Finland Tab for more info.

Week 3: Judy Weiser Video

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:26:29 +0100

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 collection of projective photos for those of you who are beginning to compile your own set of photos for use with groups!

Search Results - BBC Website - Photography

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:30:07 +0100

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.

Street Photography and Self Portrait - Vivian Maier

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:29:31 +0100

U Tube link for Vivian Maier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWEDOnBfDUI&feature=player_embedded

Week 2 - Jo Spence

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:28:28 +0100

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 - find three websites and write a short report on them clarifying the difference between phototherapy - therapeutic photography - and activism website about social change. Bit of a challenge but there you go.