stevenraboneMay 3, 20212 minInforming Contexts - Moments of StillThe last three months have been some of the most exciting I have had so far in terms of my photography and the ongoing progress of my MA...
stevenraboneApr 18, 20213 minInforming Contexts - The Good The Bad & The BeautyI wanted to start this post with a short statement that encapsulates my current intent and reflect on the current visual strategies that...
stevenraboneApr 17, 20216 minInforming Contexts - Reflects the PersonalityAs Pierre Bourdieu (1997-73) points out 'any work of art reflects the personality of it's creator, so I have begun to really appreciate...
stevenraboneApr 7, 20213 minInforming Contexts - Positioning PracticeOver the course of this module I have been exploring the art of still life and the differences and indeed similarities between...
stevenraboneApr 3, 20215 minInforming Contexts - Booking Up with FeedbackFollowing on from my previous post, my Critical Review Video Presentation has now been seen and commented on by a good number of my peers...
stevenraboneMar 21, 20216 minInforming Contexts - Critical Review Video PresentationWe have this week had the chance to produce a 10 minute video to provide a critical review of our practice and work in progress. This has...
stevenraboneMar 17, 20213 minInforming Contexts - The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. Over the last couple of months I have been focusing my attention and practice on the art of still life photography. The purpose of this...
stevenraboneMar 14, 20214 minInforming Contexts - Responses & ResponsibilityDuring this weeks module we have been considering both the responses and responsibility that photographers have and how they can employ...
stevenraboneMar 11, 20214 minInforming Contexts - Is there anything wrong with beauty?Reading Andy Grundberg's article ‘PHOTOGRAPHY VIEW; A Quintessentially American View of the World’, from the New York Times I was...
stevenraboneMar 7, 20213 minInforming Contexts - Stepping Out Of The ShadowsSo having made the conscious decision to focus this module's work on still life I had the opportunity to share my portfolio with with...
stevenraboneFeb 25, 20215 minInforming Contexts - Still MomentsAs highlighted in my previous post the last couple of months have been a period of both reflection and action as I have taken a good look...
stevenraboneFeb 24, 20213 minInforming Contexts - Jeff Wall Interview : Pictures Like PoemsOver the passed two months or so I have been reflecting about my current photography practice, what I want to shoot, what I want to say...
stevenraboneFeb 18, 20213 minInforming Contexts - Viewers Make MeaningWriting in his essay, 'The Death of the Author' Roland Barthes spoke of the fact that text is made up of multiple of meanings which comes...
stevenraboneFeb 16, 20213 minInforming Contexts - So Where Is The Author Now?Roland Barthes suggested that accompanying text gives anchorage to the image, i.e. makes the meaning of the image overt and therefore...
stevenraboneFeb 15, 20213 minInforming Contexts - Constructed RealitiesAs Week 3 of this module comes to a close I have started to define exactly where I want the immediate direction of my photography...
stevenraboneFeb 15, 20213 minInforming Contexts - False IndexesThis weeks reading has come at a time of change for me as I put the images collated in the first module to one side and almost start a...
stevenraboneFeb 15, 20213 minInforming Contexts - Subjective Traces, Spaces, Faces, PlacesI started photography with an innocent expectation that I would resist the urge to edit my photographs and would certainly never...
stevenraboneFeb 5, 20214 minInforming Contexts - The Image and The IconReading the article Photography, Vision and Representation by Snyder and Allen I was intrigued to learn that artists had been using a...
stevenraboneJan 28, 20218 minInforming Contexts - Photography, PhotographiesSo in this weeks study we considered the nature of the photographic image including the works, by Szarkowski, Shore and the 2014 What is...
stevenraboneJan 24, 20216 minInforming Contexts - The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media Nathan JurgensonI have a strange relationship with smartphones, for example I hate the amount of time my kids are on them, I hate how my boss can get...