Chance and serendipity are central to my photographic practice. Absolutely essential. I had planned out my presentation regarding ideas for my final project before reading this week’s material. And suddenly my presentation was considerably shorter as I had spent some time discussing the definition and practice of psychogeography. I even had the same two quotations…

On my last visit to the UK, I witnessed more violence in the first 24 hours than I had in the previous 8 years living in a Muslim country. That day I also read several Facebook posts from less enlightened ‘friends’ complaining about how Islam represented a culture of violence. This discrepancy between what I…

Perhaps the main thing that occurred to me as I watched the presentation on photographers in film was of how few films I have seen about photographers. I have not seen any of the films referenced in the presentation, and the only film I recall seeing about a photographer was Triage from 2009. I would…

Although the still and moving image appear to be inextricably linked, for me at least they are about as separate as they could be. Despite loving films (indeed a unit of my Bachelor’s degree was in film studies) creating moving image does not and never has interested me. When online, I will rarely pause on…

Without a doubt, photography has a great deal of power and influence as an agent for social change. Personally, photographs such as Kevin Carter’s seminal image of a starving child in Sudan and Stuart Franklin’s Tank Man image from Tiananmen Square were images that, growing up, affected me greatly. However, in more recent years, the…

The historical spread of photography in the latter half of the 19th century, for me, very much mirrors what has been happening since the popularisation of digital photography and the use of social media for sharing said. Initially, the popularity of landscape and topographical photographs allowed as small number of photographers to visit new places…