A Road Less Travelled: Photography in Children’s Literature
Looking at a children’s literature section in book stores leaves me perplexed: are there any photographically illustrated books for...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
Welcome to my Critical Research Journal
Originally created as a documentation of my learning process as part of the MA Photography study programme at Falmouth University, this journal acts as a record of my engagement with specific themes, topics and methods that are vital to my ongoing photographic practice.
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- May 2, 2023
- 3 min
Online Article On The Latvians in The Netherlands Website Latviesi.nl
On April 19, 2023, the website for Latvians in the Netherlands published an article about the exhibition ‘The Bush Monster’ on their...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Apr 24, 2023
- 1 min
EXHIBITION 'THE BUSH MONSTER'
Exhibition of the children's story 'The Bush Monster' at the performance and event venue Kulturhus EGW in Epe, the Netherlands from April...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Apr 19, 2023
- 2 min
Online Article On The Latvians Abroad Association’s Website Latviesi.com
On April 18, 2023, the media/news association group for Latvians abroad published an article about the exhibition The Bush Monster on...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Apr 12, 2023
- 3 min
Interview Article In The Schaapskooi Newspaper
On April 11, 2023, the regional newspaper ‘Schaapskooi’ (distributed to 29 000 houses and available online) published an article about...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Mar 29, 2023
- 1 min
Pages of the Exhibition Hand-out
A size A5 hand-out with an overview of the exhibition and activities for children is created for the exhibition visitors. Printed by...
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Mar 29, 2023
- 1 min
Exhibition Hand-out
The video documentation of the exhibition hand-out does not contain any sound. Please find the video below.
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Feb 22, 2023
- 2 min
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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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Feb 20, 2023
- 1 min
Video Recording of 'The Bush Monster' Book
The video recording contains sound.
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Ruta Saksens Kalmane
- Feb 20, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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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