Practice presentations on research

Thanks to the folk that made it in today.

Those who made it in all got up and had a go at a short presentation. I had asked for everyone to give a short talk on a source they used for their research for their chosen photographer.

Again, the purpose of this is to share some information on useful sources but also to get us to think critically about various sources. For example, after one of the talks today we had a chat about the kind of information that is found on the internet. One of you made the perceptive point that there are lots of examples of the work and information on the influence of specific photographers on the internet. However, it seems that it is more difficult to find out about specific techniques of photographers by just using the internet - often a textbook, it was argued, is more useful for finding out about technique.

Anyone who missed the opportunity to have a go at the practice talk can do that next week. We will also be looking at turning your oral evaluation of a source into a written piece next week.

We also had a quick chat about the morality of photo-journalism and I showed a poem by Carol Ann Duffy (poet laureate) called "War Photographer".