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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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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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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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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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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The book 'The Park Behind My Backyard'

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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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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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TELLING A STORY

Stories can be told with as little as one and as many as hundreds of images. This time I will give an example of telling a story with...

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CONTEXT AND NARRATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

In photography a story can be told in as little as one image or it can be told in several images. In both cases context and narrative are...