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Critical thinking [PART 1]
How do you pin point the exact point of human consciousness? It could be when we awake, when we're woken or when we choose to stay awake....

Sophie Grogan
Jan 30, 20201 min read


Hive Exhibition - Blackpool
Visiting Hive in Blackpool, I analysed work by Mark McNeill who specialises in landscape and astro photography. This was a useful event...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Mass Media
Photography can be seen as an instruction, picking up on social conflicts and issues in the wider population. Gender, sex and feminism...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Networking
Insightful networks LinkedIn Thephotoforum.com DPReview.com Dgrin.com 1x.com 500px.com Blogging for photographers lisapritchard.com...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
The Current Epoch
An Epoch is a geological timescale longer than an age but shorter than a period. What epoch are we in now? We are in the "Holocene Epoch"...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Photography, is it all political?
Class relations and social conflict use a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical views of social...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Anthropocene
A geological age defined by the irreversible damage caused by society on the environment. How is this a contemporary theory? – Imagining...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Romantic/sublime in current landscape photography
What contemporary landscape looked like before was romantic where as now it is much more sublime. This could be because we need to create...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read


Visual Timeline
How much has changed between 1874 and 2016? I work as naturally as possible despite the knowledge on my shoulder about the downfall of...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Where is my contemporary practice going?
• Contemporary practice serves to keep the modern society evolving to produce work that is relevant to the time period. • My practice in...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read


Tableau-vivant photography
“Pictorial narrative is concentrated into a simple image; a stand-alone picture” (Cotton, 2014). Tableau vivant: living picture) uses...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read


Richard Sawdon Smith
The Anatomical Man "This work stems around a fascination with representations of anatomy that have been fuelled by his experience as a...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read


Siân Davey - Looking for Alice
Society tells us that disability is bad, we are conditioned to think that there is a negative connotation associated with an extra...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Diat/ the dialectic
The way we read work is ever changing and is dependant on the relationship between old and new contemporary work to investigate the truth...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
- Pioneer of victorian art photographer and an expert in photomontage. His collaboration with Charles Darwin on "The expression of the...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Fred Ritchin - After photography
"Every new technology produces new ways of perceiving the world, of communicating and relating to others, and thus alters our...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Contemporary
“happening in the same period of time..of or in the style of the present or recent times… .” "a rolling and evolving view of photography...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
City
The foundations of city photography was based on the way urban spaces viewed in the late 18th and early 19th century similarly to that of...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Landscape
Developing through the 18th and 19th century, landscape continues to be encoded within the language of painting. It originated most...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Body
The body as a vessel, allows interpretation based on the viewer. The naked body continues to elude the mind using different qualities...

Sophie Grogan
Apr 2, 20191 min read
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