‘There are two fundamentals in all picture taking – where to stand and when to release the shutter ... so photography is very simple.’...

For a short introduction to how context operates in relation to photographs, read Terry Barrett’s essay ‘Photographs and Context’:...

‘When somebody sees something and experiences it - that’s when art happens’ (Hans-Peter Feldman) If photography is an event then looking...

Select an image by any photographer of your choice and take a photograph in response to it. You can respond in any way you like to the...

As a distance learning student at OCA you’re not an autodidact, you have the benefit of tutor reports and a formal assessment at the end...

Use a combination of quality, contrast, direction and colour to light an object in order to reveal its form. For this exercise, we...

Capture ‘the beauty of artificial light’ in a short sequence of shots (‘beauty’ is, of course, a subjective term). The correct white...

Taking the photography of Mann, Atget or Schmidt or a photographer of your own choosing as your starting point, shoot a number of...

Light is measured by the camera’s light meter – but how does the camera translate this measurement into a usable exposure? In auto and...

‘The decisive moment is not a dramatic climax but a visual one: the result is not a story but a picture.’ (Swarkowski, 2007, p.5) ‘You...

Watch the Henri Cartier-Bresson documentary ‘ L’amour de court’ (‘ Just plain love ’, 2001) available on Vimeo:...

Start by doing your own research into some of the artists discussed above. Then, using slow shutter speeds, the multiple exposure...

Start by doing some of your own research into the photographers discussed above. Then, using fast shutter speeds, try to isolate a frozen...

‘I’m inclined to think that there is no such thing as a photojournalistic image, only a photojournalistic use of an image.’ (David...

Read the reviews by Campany and Colberg and, if you haven’t already done so, use them to begin the Research section of your learning log....

The list below is showing a range of art book fairs, both independent publishers and independent designers and artists. Research the book...

Find two artists’ books that you feel demonstrate an interesting relationship between their form and content through the materials that...

Brief Design the book format and cover artwork for two different versions of Daniel Defoe’s classic 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. The...

This exercise hopes to broaden your understanding of other book designers’ work by looking at their cover designs. Start to identify the...

Please refer to this post >>> CBD | P4 | EX1: Paper/ephemera