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Stan Dickinson's OCA 'People & Place' Blog: June 2011
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Stan Dickinsons OCA People and Place Blog. Thursday, 30 June 2011. No posts for more than a month – it feels quite difficult to pick up the threads after such a long gap. A brief explanation might be a good place to start. A holiday in France takes up some of the time – and that has also provided some opportunity for reflection (which will emerge through later comments and imminent project/assignment write-ups) as well as supplying photographic opportunities, both for this course and for pleasure. 8220;A...
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Stan Dickinson's OCA 'People & Place' Blog: May 2011
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Stan Dickinsons OCA People and Place Blog. Sunday, 22 May 2011. Workshop – Cornerhouse, Manchester, 19-05-2011. On Thursday (with fellow students Janet and Rob) I attended a workshop at the Cornerhouse Gallery in Manchester. Entitled ‘Do You Really Want to Do This? 8217;, it was presented by Paul Herrmann of the Redeye. There were two guest presenters as well as Paul Herrmann – artist Dinu Li. Li is a leading Northern based contemporary artist whose work includes film and video as well as photography.
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Stan Dickinson's OCA 'People & Place' Blog: April 2012
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Stan Dickinsons OCA People and Place Blog. Sunday, 29 April 2012. Assignment Five – Submission and Feedback. Assignment Five has been completed; sent to my tutor; and feedback received. The feedback is positive, with some useful suggestions for improvements, which I will take on board, more or less without exception. This is the set of images that I submitted, with the text incorporated. I did make one change after sending off the submission to my tutor. Actually, this also uses a different font. I will ...
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Stan Dickinson's OCA 'People & Place' Blog: March 2012
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Stan Dickinsons OCA People and Place Blog. Sunday, 25 March 2012. Assignment 5 – more portraits. There has been some good progress with the assignment shoots over the last couple of weeks, with four more portraits made. The two final ones that I need are due to be done next weekend. I’m reasonable happy with how they are turning out. I think my confidence in dealing with portrait sessions has developed a little. I’ve tried to not rush things; standing to one side of the camera, watching their facia...
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Stan Dickinson's OCA 'People & Place' Blog: February 2011
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Stan Dickinsons OCA People and Place Blog. Tuesday, 22 February 2011. Assignment 2: People and activity - some initial thinking. I am interested in building on the ‘street’ work that I have been doing over the last few weeks by photographing people in some form of ‘street-based’ activity. I have already been observing/shooting people eating in a public place – on the run; on benches; perched on concrete walls; in groups; chatting; etc. What sort of photographs might I take? Why am I doing it? Of people s...
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Stan Dickinson's OCA 'People & Place' Blog: August 2011
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Stan Dickinsons OCA People and Place Blog. Monday, 29 August 2011. Project 19: A single figure small. Have been working on some of the projects in section four of the course whilst planning the fourth assignment and it’s time I wrote some of that up here. My first example of a ‘single figure small’ is the classic isolated individual silhouetted as they walk across an empty landscape. This image would be more or less worthless without the figure, and it could be argued that the figure is a bit too small.
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Stan Dickinson's OCA 'People & Place' Blog: April 2011
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Stan Dickinsons OCA People and Place Blog. Thursday, 21 April 2011. Assignment Two – Tutor Feedback. I got some very detailed feedback from my tutor on my Assignment Two submission last week. My first reaction was a degree of concern. Or that he hadn’t ‘got’ what I was trying to do. We agreed that I would respond to his points and then we would speak on the telephone, which we have now done at some length. It gives the work a value. So, to the specifics and what can be learned from Assignment Two:. He fe...
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Stan Dickinson's OCA 'People & Place' Blog: June 2012
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Stan Dickinsons OCA People and Place Blog. Monday, 4 June 2012. With everything now ready for assessment submission, this seems like a good time to record some final thoughts about ‘People and Place’ and my own state of development. However, there are areas worthy of a bit more discussion and thought. The first says ‘Use technical and interpersonal skills to capture images which reflect your ideas’. I would particularly like to home in on the ‘. and interpersonal skills .’. But it is only a start. I woul...
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Stan Dickinson's OCA 'People & Place' Blog: February 2012
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Stan Dickinsons OCA People and Place Blog. Monday, 27 February 2012. Assignment Five – Update. Progress remains slow, but it looks as though March will be an active month in the context of this assignment, and might even see it close to completion. This note is just to pull together a few developments. I made the decision earlier in the year to keep things simple. I did, briefly, experiment with the idea of using Google Streetview as a source for the background in the images. I had a go at a self-portrai...
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Stan Dickinson's OCA 'People & Place' Blog: January 2012
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Stan Dickinsons OCA People and Place Blog. Wednesday, 25 January 2012. Musing on a da Vinci – several in fact. Leonardo da Vinci, Painter at the Court of Milan – an exhibition at the National Gallery, which was billed as a once in a lifetime opportunity. It was indeed so, with most of his surviving paintings together in one place for, probably, the first time and, probably, the last. So, by definition, by reputation, by the word of the press, this was always going to be a significant event. We stood in f...
