VIRTUAL MEETING 18.4.20
This meeting was held remotely via OCA’s Zoom account due to Covid19 Virus. There was no tutor present this month, but there were 8 of us attending. Work was loaded up to OCA’s Padlet in advance, so we had a chance to review and make comments or prepare questions before the meeting and were also able to exchange comments via the Chat facility, which was archived along with a video record of the meeting .Padlet allowed us to make comments on each other’s work along with general comments on how the meeting went and was archived and remains as a record of the meeting.
We discussed the current restrictions on photography and the benefits of working dicretly with I phones for those who can photograph whilst outside. 4 of us shared our work with our peers for their comments:
Jonathan is finishing landscape and shared hs land art project. We had some interesting discussions on how to present the work in a virtual gallery.
Miriam is beginning an assignment for digital image and culture. We reflected on what digital identity is and how to represent it photographically.
Pauline has just started documentary and shared her Covid 19 street photography. Most of our discussions revolved about how to pull it into a series, where would the emphasis be going forward. Unlike me Pauline is able to walk to built up places to photograph.
I shared my new attempt at assignment 1. My peers didn’t seem to find it as dull as I thought they would. The women seemed to identify the most with the images and thought that there was also a theme of being a Mum and a provider there. It was also commented that there was a feeling of barriers – so hopefully I have inspired some emotional reaction to the images.
Whilst I was preparing to share the work I reflected that the work is also a response to me withdrawing from the world not only for my safety but also as I feel isolated from my second home (which emotionally is my first home) which I am not allowed to visit currently and that I am not integrated as with the local community that I am living within currently I am feeling double isolated. Cathartic reflection!
Since my documentary hangout 9.4.20 I had re-photographed the laptop on a desk at closer range and had substituted the full bottles of wine taken through a window, for empty bottles outside (as I thought that this was more realistic). Once again the consensus was that the laptop on the desk was the image that didn’t fit the series, but the paracetamol close up image was said to fit well – this meshed with what I thought.
It was queried that I have a variety of perspectives on the windows but I explained that I photographed different viewpoints and experimented with keeping a flat or angled perspective but prefer the mixture.
This was the padlet of the meeting: https://oca.padlet.org/jonathan515050/d01nm43f5ro6
My takeaways:
- Remembering the benefit of sharing with others to get an outsider’s perspective
- There’s nothing wrong with a simple approach
- Being able to finalise the series and the assignment
My post meeting reflections:
Thanks to everyone today – sharing my work gave me sometime for extra reflection and I realised that I feel double isolated at the moment; this is because I am not allowed to live currently in my second home (which is emotionally my first home, especially this time of year) and I am not so integrated now in my local community here, hence the double isolation! I think this comes across in my work and my attitude towards it – I shall write this into my evaluation. Cathartic reflection!
Photography 2: Documentary 