TUTOR LED ANDREA NORRINGTON 17.6.20 APPROACHING AN ASSIGNMENT PART 2
Padlet for talks: https://oca.padlet.org/andreanorrington/laq2kvhc5mpg
PACING AND DEADLINES
- It’s a journey (See Stan Dickinson OCA Sustaining your practice for a great mind map: https://www.oca.ac.uk/weareoca/photography/stan-dickinson/
- Dead ends: It happens, accept it.
- Book “Creative calling” Chase Jarvis, take it step by step, “You don’t need experts. You probably don’t need school. What you do need is to Create, Learn and repeat”
- Map your time out.
- Look ahead to assignment briefs as it primes your mind as you complete coursework.
- Its fine to go out of sync but discuss with tutor. Can do timelines on padlet.
EXPERIMENTATION:
- Take the obvious photos first- then review & reflect– take a view of visual thinking that develops and pursue it – Or take a different strand.
- Book Deviate Beau Lotto (I have on kindle) “Seeing differently – to deviate – begins with awareness, with seeing yourself see”
- James Victore “Fuck perfection” (instagram) The things that made you weird as a child make you now, don’t worry about being different.
- Don’t be afraid of taking risks.
KEEPING YOUR CREATIVITY GOING:
- Ken Robinson Ted Talks: (I’ve seen before) https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity?language=en
- Don’t lose your creativity as you grow up or as you have a had a gap from photographing. Your creative muscle needs exercising. Side projects can keep your creativity going, these can be personal you don’t need to share and the I phone is great for this: “When you start making creative work regularly or return to it after a long gap, brilliance will not suddenly spill out of you. Quite the opposite. Picture turning on the kitchen tap in an old, long-vacant apartment. That brown water you see at first is totally normal. Public radio host Ira Glass refers to this disconnect as the creative gap; it’s the distance between when we see in our mind’s eye – what we want to create – and the work we are actually able to create with our current skill set. It’s a painful disconnect.” Chase Jarvis.
- Grant Scott Book “New ways of seeing, Photo sketching on phones, “A passion for the medium of photography should be based upon a passion to communicate and create images. Therefore, the creation of personal projects should be a primary concern and occupation for any young photographer” Grant Scott.
- Take photographs that feel like seeing. He wanted to take pictures that look like you see, why should there be a difference between how you see and how you photograph, that s seeing in a state of heightened awareness. Remember the experience of looking at the image. You tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5xAxqbtz9o&feature=youtu.be
- Geoff Dyer “The ongoing moment” (Now have) On Tropes within photography.
RISK TAKING: Get honest feedback, remember work is not final until submitted for assessment.
PROCESS: Find subjects you are passionate about, then take the photographs. Don’t force work.
My learning
- Keep taking risks, keep trusting your intuition and choices,
- Remember to exercise my creative muscle
- Take photographs that are like looking with conscious heightened attention.
It was also a useful reminder that:
- Level 1: Underpinning skills
- Level 2: Experiment, take risks, sometimes fail, sometimes succeed
- Level 3: Pursue your strengths
So I should be taking risks!
Bibliography:
Blakemore, J. (2005) John Blakemore’s Black and White Photography Workshop, UK: David & Charles. Available online at: http://157br.gotdns.org:8085/share.cgi?ssid=0rcFlB0
Dyer, G. (2007) The Ongoing Moment, London: Abacus.
Jarvis, C. (2019) Creative Calling, New York: Harper Collins.
Lotto, B. (2017) Deviate: The Creative Power of Transforming Your Perception. London: Orion.
Norrington, A. (2017) Stan Dickinson, At: https://www.oca.ac.uk/weareoca/photography/stan- dickinson/ (Accessed 17/06/20).
Scott, G. (2020) New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography, London:
Bloomsbury.
Stephen Shore: Taking photographs that “feel like seeing” (2019) [Online Video] At: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5xAxqbtz9o (Accessed 17/06/2020).
Photography 2: Documentary 