Een video van het boek 'Het Struikmonster'
Over het project ''Het Struikmonster'' is een verhaal voor kinderen geïllustreerd met foto's, geïnspireerd door zowel mijn zoon als de...
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Image and Text by Saksens Kalmane
Welcome to my Critical Research Journal
I have created this journal as part of a MA Photography study programme at Falmouth University to document my learning and for it to act as a record of my engagement with the specific themes, topics and tasks addressed throughout the course.
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Feb 20
- 1 min
Video Recording of 'The Bush Monster' Book
The video recording contains sound.
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Feb 20
- 1 min
Pages of 'The Bush Monster' Book
Book pages (in English) in full view are available in the PDF file below. Book pages (in Dutch) in full view are available in the PDF...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Feb 8
- 2 min
DESCRIPTOR OF THE PROJECT
'The Bush Monster' is currently a project that is still work in progress in the production stage. ‘The Bush Monster’ is a...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Jan 19
- 1 min
BOOK REVIEW
On daily basis I have a wonderful opportunity to go through a bunch of photography books for children with my little baby boy (he...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Oct 10, 2022
- 4 min
SUSTAINABILITY AND MINDFUL PHOTOGRAPHY
According to Simon Veith, “Sustainable photography is working holistically as a photographer” (2021), and not specifically focusing on...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Oct 10, 2022
- 4 min
FMP - THE BUSH MONSTER
Once upon a time John Updike made a claim that is still valid today: “Photography, for all its contemporary abundance, still plays a...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Sep 22, 2022
- 2 min
ETHICAL CODE OF PRACTICE
As a fine art photographer currently developing a project for children audience that is going to include nature and wildlife subjects...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Mar 31, 2022
- 1 min
DOCUMENTATION VIDEO OF THE BOOK
"What happens to leaves When they fall off trees?"
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Mar 25, 2022
- 6 min
PRODUCTION, INTENT AND CONTEXT
The photographically illustrated project “What happens to leaves When they fall off trees?” created primarily for children audience tells...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Mar 14, 2022
- 8 min
A SEA OF IMAGES
Living in the world overflooded with photographic images creates an effect when one’s images look like many others already seen before,...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Mar 4, 2022
- 8 min
IMAGE AND WORDS
I devoted this week for looking at the relationship between image and text, and participated in two workshops during the Word\Image/Play:...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Feb 22, 2022
- 5 min
CHILD’S GAZE
While developing a project directed towards children audience, it seems useful to investigate how children look at the world and what...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Feb 16, 2022
- 7 min
MULTIPLE MEANINGS
All visual material can be interpreted in many different ways depending on the specifics of the audience. The intended meaning by the...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Feb 11, 2022
- 6 min
CONSTRUCTED REALITIES
Jeff Wall (2015) has proposed that photographers can be divided into two categories: hunters and farmers. While photographers-hunters are...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Feb 2, 2022
- 6 min
IS IT REALLY, REAL?
Steve Edwards suggests that "some have seen the advent of digital photography as representing a crisis in photography's ability to...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Jan 28, 2022
- 8 min
PHOTOGRAPHY AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Having a university background in linguistics and having completed an introductory course in Writing for Children, it feels natural to be...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Nov 22, 2021
- 4 min
THE PARK BEHIND MY BACKYARD
The outcome of the project 'The Park Behind My Backyard' is planned to be a hand-made book which is currently at the printing stage....
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Nov 18, 2021
- 4 min
THE FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY MARKET - WEBSITES
Living in the digital era means that digital presence on the WWB is an integral part of any contemporary artist’s practice. It can be a...
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