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  • Assignment 5: Case Study

    Chris Levine Chris Levine Whilst doing some separate research on royal photographs I came across Chris Levine and his photographs of Queen Elizabeth II. What interested me is his focus is on ‘light’, and his use of photography as just one tool to his creative thrust. Chris Levine’s first exhibition of note was his ‘Hypervisual…

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  • Assignment 4: response to tutor feedback

    I suppose that I had been concerned about my choice of photograph as other students had seemed to choose photographs that like mine had made the news, but also had media impact for the horrors and inhumanity that they portrayed.  Photographs made and used for the emotional jerk caused within the observer, but little likelihood…

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  • Talking photographs

    I came across this photograph at the National Portrait Gallery when wandering through after visiting an exhibition. An image of the former Queen and her consort commissioned by the gallery in 2011. I thought it an odd image, an almost unsettling one. This is our Queen, a person who embodies regal monarchy, sitting almost at…

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