Photography general STUDENT LED VIRTUAL HANGOUT 3.5.20
This forum is student led but was joined by photography tutor Clive White, which is what interested me. Again it was nice to put some names I’ve seen online to faces.
We began with a discussion on personal voice based on this article which I have subsequently viewed: https://99u.adobe.com/articles/51575/the-4-phases-of-developing-your-creative-voice
Behance, Inc (2015) The 4 Phases Of Developing Your Creative Voice. At: https://99u.adobe.com/articles/51575/the-4-phases-of-developing-your-creative-voice (Accessed 10/05/2020).
My notes from reading this:
- Your voice is the how you’re recognized by others
- It speaks to your values and the perspective and skill that you bring to the work
- It is often forged as you follow the inspiration on your influences as well as commit to your intuition
- Virginia Woolf “Your voice is the confluence of inspiration, dedicate practice, and strategic risk”.
Stages to finding your voice might be:
Discovery phase: Its when seeds are planted and you are often disappointed with your work, you might have ideas but clear ways forward, so ask yourself:
What new ideas or skills are obsessing me right now?
Who are the practitioners that I can learn from here?
Emulation phase: Think about other’s work to immerse your self in and how to practice the skills I want to improve/learn
Divergence phase: Once you’ve achieved enough mastery then youll want to move on from emulation:
to do this take intuitive steps and bend or break the rules you’ve learned.
Push yourself out of your compfort zone
Crisis phase:
be careful that you push yourself out of your comfort zone even if it exposes vulnerabilities
refuse to settle for good enough- hone your skills
We then discussed how to stay motivated in these challenging times, Clive said that its important to do work that’s meaningful for you, finding your bliss and follow it – I think that’s what I’m struggling with at the moment!
We also discussed landscape assignment 6, one said it was a waste of time, I disagreed with that and said that I thought it brought a lot of personal growth.
Some with assessment looming asked for ideas on how to show work in a virtual exhibition, there were some suggestions:
- Padlet
- There’s a guy called DJ Clarke who has recently used 360 degree video- might not totally relevant but worth a look- this is good intro https://www.redeye.org.uk/programme/events/talk-dj-clark-multimedia-journalist
We were reminded by Clive that you can have mastery of techniques and/or mastery of voice.
Though I both gave and got something from this group hangout it was less useful/stimulating that the other hangouts/groups that I attend so I wont attend again for a while but the nuggets that I took away I have highlighted.
Photography 2: Documentary 