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Amber Houbara
Dec 511 min read
P | P5 | AS 5 Photography is simple | Part 1 Research & Concept Development
‘There are two fundamentals in all picture taking – where to stand and when to release the shutter ... so photography is very simple.’...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 22 min read
Photographs and Contexts
For a short introduction to how context operates in relation to photographs, read Terry Barrett’s essay ‘Photographs and Context’:...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 23 min read
P | P5 | EX3: Looking at photography
‘When somebody sees something and experiences it - that’s when art happens’ (Hans-Peter Feldman) If photography is an event then looking...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 25 min read
P | P5 | EX2: Homage
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...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 207 min read
P | P4 | AS4 Languages of light
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...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 182 min read
P | P4 | Ex3: Egg or stone
Use a combination of quality, contrast, direction and colour to light an object in order to reveal its form. For this exercise, we...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 182 min read
P | P4 | EX2: Artificial Light
Capture ‘the beauty of artificial light’ in a short sequence of shots (‘beauty’ is, of course, a subjective term). The correct white...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 124 min read
P | P4 | EX1: Daylight
Taking the photography of Mann, Atget or Schmidt or a photographer of your own choosing as your starting point, shoot a number of...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 93 min read
P | P4 | Research
Light is measured by the camera’s light meter – but how does the camera translate this measurement into a usable exposure? In auto and...
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Amber Houbara
Oct 284 min read
P | P3 | Research Point: The Decisive Moment
Watch the Henri Cartier-Bresson documentary ‘ L’amour de court’ (‘ Just plain love ’, 2001) available on Vimeo:...
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Amber Houbara
Oct 244 min read
P | P3 | EX2: Trace
Start by doing your own research into some of the artists discussed above. Then, using slow shutter speeds, the multiple exposure...
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Amber Houbara
Oct 244 min read
P | P3 | EX1 Freeze
Start by doing some of your own research into the photographers discussed above. Then, using fast shutter speeds, try to isolate a frozen...
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Amber Houbara
Jun 291 min read
P | P1 | Research point
‘I’m inclined to think that there is no such thing as a photojournalistic image, only a photojournalistic use of an image.’ (David...
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Amber Houbara
May 106 min read
P| INTRODUCTION - 'Square Mile'
Brief Make a series of six to twelve photographs in response to the concept of ‘The Square Mile’. Use this as an opportunity to take a...
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Amber Houbara
Jul 9, 20223 min read
CBD | P5 | Research task 1: Book Fairs
The list below is showing a range of art book fairs, both independent publishers and independent designers and artists. Research the book...
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Amber Houbara
Jun 6, 20222 min read
CBD | P4 | Research 1: Exploring artists’ books
Find two artists’ books that you feel demonstrate an interesting relationship between their form and content through the materials that...
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Amber Houbara
Feb 2, 202211 min read
CBD | P2 | Ex 3: Book designers
This exercise hopes to broaden your understanding of other book designers’ work by looking at their cover designs. Start to identify the...
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Amber Houbara
Feb 1, 20221 min read
CBD | P2 | Research Task: Paper and Bookbinding
Please refer to this post >>> CBD | P4 | EX1: Paper/ephemera
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Amber Houbara
Jan 24, 20225 min read
CBD | P2 | EX2 - Paper and binding choices
Brief The kind of stock you choose will be informed by the nature of the job you’re doing. If you were working commercially, then...
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Amber Houbara
Jan 21, 20227 min read
CBD | P2 | Ex1- The function of books
Identify a range of books that have fundamentally different functions in terms of how these books are engaged with - how they’re held,...
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