Critical Research Journal
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Fact, fiction and faction
May 3, 2022
Photography is a powerful medium to visually record the world we live in and like literature lends itself to classification in terms of subject matter and genre. Personally, I am influenced by the documentary tradition, and much of the work I admire fits into that category.
However I am also…
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Robert Adams three ‘verities’
April 29, 2022
Robert Adams says in his essay “Truth in Landscape” that landscape photography offers us three verities: geography, autobiography and metaphor.[1] He proposes that the artist must be a geographical mediator to help the viewer discover the meaning of a place. I have been exploring these verities in relation to…
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Thinking differently about ‘Think Different’
April 8, 2022
Whilst I was student, Apple continued as a source of inspiration for me both in their development of the macintosh computer and also with the breakthrough ‘counter-culture’ marketing that launched it.
One of their most memorable campaigns used a series of black and white portraits of creative geniuses whose thinking…
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The rhetoric of the image
March 17, 2022
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It has been interesting to reflect on a series of ads i created a few years ago. For Levis’, I created a campaign to promote their red tab line of jeans (Fig.1).
The concept was quite simple: Levi’s RedTab jeans are so comfortable and durable you’ll never want to…
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Reading photographs
March 14, 2022
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Left: Steve McCurry 1985. Afghan Girl. Right: Jodi Bieber 2009. Bibi Aisha.
When ‘reading’ these two examples of different Afghan women who are of a similar age we should take into account the stare, not just that of the two women in the photographs but that of ourselves, what…
