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Here is the press release I’ve been asked to write for my project. Title: Desolate Farmhouses Description: This project is about the demise of farming in the west of Ireland through the ruins that are left behind when there is no family left to repurpose the land. This project is about the aftermath, the dilapidation, [...]

We have a class critique on Thursday. I’m fairly well prepared for it, I’ve printed out all my images and are ready to be shown to the class. Here is a preview of the images! (Order undecided) Tomorrow is going to be a really busy day. I still have to decide what is the  theoretical context [...]

Shooting went pretty well over Easter, now that I know the type of composition and shot that I want. It had made the production of the images faster and meant that I have to spend less time at each location. Which has meant I can make most of the light I want. I tried to [...]

While I’ve always played around with the idea of the topographic, I never really thought of good project that I could do. While I was shooting abandoned farmhouses and finding the work of Ed Ruscha again, I decided that it would be a good idea to shoot the farmhouses in this style and make a [...]

http://www.alexandergronsky.com/ - Artwork – Pastoral (Can’t hotlink directly, I hate flash) I really love this project by Alexander Gronsky. He situates himself on the outskirts of Moscow, in areas that are in between rural and urban. Gronsky divides the distinctions of Rural and Urban and creates a kinda no man’s land between the two. I found [...]

Project is going pretty well. I’ve just been fairly lax with my updates over Easter. So I’m going to update my blog with all the research I have on my drafts, along with updating my photo a day +  another post on my clear direction on the project and the lastest shots I’ve taken. So [...]

http://www.galharpaz.com/ I came across Gal Harpaz when I was researching into the possibility of using panoramics in my project. While this wasn’t really feasible because I felt that I didn’t really have the subjects to shoot, I did like the idea and it will be something that I will maybe come back to in the [...]

I went home again to shoot, this time I was trying to narrow down the field (pardon the pun) yet again. I was unsure to go back and shoot my old family farm again. I had only explored the first two fields and I wanted to go further to see what it would look like. [...]

My lecturer posed me with a few interesting questions based on my feedback. I felt going into the tutorial,  that my images have taken a step back in clarity of message. This was relayed to me by my lecturer as well who questioned how I was going to put my own twist on the project [...]

The weather conspired against me today and I couldn’t shoot. So I only did one days worth of shooting yesterday. I’m reasonably happy with the outcome  because I now have new locations and two of which I’m really happy with. I explored a bit inside the houses more than I did previously. I found it [...]