Week 1: 7 photos project: due to an incredibly busy start to the new term (new principal want to shake everything up) much of this had to be done on the hoof. Or was that the intention? Cue several not particularly interesting photos of my everyday life. Was more than slightly awed by the quality…

  Week 1: I made an attempt at extending my psychogeographical survey of Dubai this week by traveling to the Jebel Ali neighbourhood which has a number of places of worship for non-Muslims. I managed to get a few shots of the Catholic church and the Sikh temple before the 45 degree heat and 95…

Week 1: The look into other photography careers was extremely interesting, especially as much of the primary photography industry, as far as I can see, does not greatly interest me. As I am now comfortably in my mid-40s, the idea of becoming a photographer’s assistant – whilst certainly alluring in terms of an apprenticeship, may…

One of the things that struck me quite forcefully about this week’s artciles and presentations was the ratio of photographs I see to photographs I remember. I must see hundreds of photographs, scrolling through socila media and photographic sites, yet I would be hard pushed to remember any of them. Over the last few days,…

I remember as a child being challenged by a friend who offered the following scenario: a bee is flying south along a railway line when it is hit by a train travelling north. This means that there must be a point when the bee meets the train, when the bee stops travelling south and begins…