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East End London Series
I started working on shooting street scenes from London’s East End as a means of getting used to my new 120 film camera. I liked some of the images and I’m now putting together a short series. I began...
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Bailey’s East End
I went along to the David Bailey exhibition at the Compressor House in Newham. I am working on an idea for a long term project which will be about London’s East End. I am thinking about using project...
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East End Update
In my spare time I have continued to develop my ideas for a long term project on London’s East End. I have been spending some time in the area getting to know the geography, reading some historical...
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East End London – some images for discussion at OCA Brighton event
I plan to sign up for my second level 3 course in the new year. I have been continuing to scope out the nature of a major project for this course based on London’s East End. I have been carrying out...
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Thoughts on the cultural significance of landscape
I have yet to enrol for Photography Your Own Portfolio which would be my last module on the OCA degree course. I expect to do so in a few months time and hope to complete the course by the middle of...
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Ideas for YOP
I have not posted for a while but have been quietly thinking about how I will take forward my work on my final course Photography 3: Your Own Porfolio. The course is more structured than the Advanced...
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Always Follow Ur Dreams!! – some test image/text combinations
I have been feeling my way with this project. I have started by identifying some events/places where I feel that an image/text combination would provide an interesting reflection on immigration in the...
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Always Follow Ur Dreams!! – More texts
I have been researching the history of immigration in the East End with a view to finding texts which direct me towards possible images for this project. This rather turns my normal approach upside...
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Scene of the ‘crimes’
I thought it would be useful to set out where I am currently planning to make my photographs for ‘Always Follow Ur Dreams!!’ on a map. This is it…. Annotated Map of Locations for ‘Always Follow Ur...
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YOP – taking stock
The latest set of images and texts are included in a pdf file. Just click on the photograph below: Cable Street, looking East from junction with Leman Street, November 2013©Keith Greenough 2013 The...
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Self Doubt and ‘Umbra Sumus’…
I have been thinking a lot about how I want viewers to respond to my East End work. At the moment I’m very concerned that it is coming over as a travelog or worse still a tourist brochure…this place is...
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Major Project Proposal
For assignment one of Your Own Portfolio I am required to submit a brief project proposal for my major project on a single page of A4. Below is my first draft…work still to do: Aims of the project My...
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East End – facts and narratives
I have trying to figure out why certain of the image/text combinations for the East End project seem to work and others do not. In writing my proposal for a major project (see here) I realised that the...
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East London Project – on to Assignment Four
Following the feedback for Assignment three (see my previous post here), I decided to take stock of where I had reached with my East End work. I had two questions to consider: Would the project work...
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