I spend much of my time working with children and young people, teaching them various elements of photography and art, and i’ve managed to do this for almost ten years self-employed which i am very proud of. But i am aware that times are changing and in order to maintain a level of interest inContinue reading “the ‘selfie’…”
Author Archives: lisafotos
Brocken Spectre
I keep a running list of favourite words and things (mainly in my head) and sometimes I get the chance to use them as a basis for a series of images. I have been utterly obsessed with brocken spectres for several months (if not years) but haven’t been able to work them as an ideaContinue reading “Brocken Spectre”
Reflections
The HYPE group currently have an exhibition of photography, collage and painting at Armadale library (until 31st October). The work was created for the Scottish Mental Health Art and Film Festival. We took as our ambiguous theme the idea of ‘reflections’, allowing participants to interpret this brief as they wanted. Photographs were taken at aContinue reading “Reflections”
C, aged 15
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”
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”
Man Ray’s letter to Knud Merrild
I have been doing some reading on Man Ray recently- he is an artist known to most photographers for his pioneering Rayograms and solarisation and if, like me you trained in photography pre-digital days you would have experimented with these techniques in the darkroom. The quote above is from a letter Man Ray wrote toContinue reading “Man Ray’s letter to Knud Merrild”
Future Self!
We are careering towards the launch of the Future Self exhibition in Stirling on Monday and it’s down to the last few tasks- order the vinyl lettering and layout the interpretation text and then it’s just the 113 portraits to hang!! Writing the interpretation text is the bit i don’t like doing- it’s really hardContinue reading “Future Self!”
Heartlands Project
I was commissioned to develop a project with two primary 7 classes from Whitburn which took as it’s topic the Heartlands development. This development, just outside Whitburn, is currently the largest development project in Britain. Taking the history and surroundings of this site as inspiration my brief was to create a full day’s workshop withContinue reading “Heartlands Project”
