Back in January of this year I was working for two separate organisations delivering art workshops to children and young people excluded from mainstream education (primarily behavioural issues). I took this photograph of one of the boys during our photography class and promptly forgot all about it. I often felt like this after the classes.Continue reading “C, aged 15”
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Camera Obscura
Been covering classes for the head of the photography department this week. We agreed that I could teach image formation. So I trashed his room by turning it in to a Camera Obscura and had the students sit around in the dark. This is a photograph taken by a student of the image projected inContinue reading “Camera Obscura”
Andrei Tarkovsky
I’ve been back a few weeks now and settling in to new work challenges and the cooler climate. I started watching the Dogma 95 series of films again, which led me to discover the works of film maker Andrei Tarkovsky who is a huge influence on Lars Von Trier. I am now going thoughContinue reading “Andrei Tarkovsky”
Picasso speaks
“Among several sins I have been accused of committing, none is more false than the one I have, as the principal objective in my work, the spirit of research. When I paint my objects it is to show what I have found and not what I am looking for. In art, intentions are not sufficientContinue reading “Picasso speaks”
