Tuesday, 18 January 2011

About Me

I am interested in furthering my study of photography at university, especially at Manchester Metropolitan. I feel your course can offer me the ability to learn an exciting range of contemporary skills and crafts based techniques. I am interested in all sorts of photography and your course “enables a wide range of diverse approaches to photography” which really appeals to me because I am open minded and eager to learn a vast range of new information and am prepared to take a diverse approach to my work. I am interested in Manchester, the city itself. I feel it is a vibrant city full of culture and I look forward to looking at art and photography at Manchester Art Gallery, Corner House and Lowry Centre. I would like the opportunity to photograph Manchester as it is a fascinating city which combines industrial archaeology and modern architecture. I am a fan of tableau photography as I enjoy the staging of an image and constructing something that’s personal to me. This ties in with my passion for film. I love French new wave cinema and the work of Jean Luc Godard.  After watching his film Breathless I went on to do some photography in the style of French new wave cinema. I am also really inspired by film and literature. For example the book Coming Up For Air by George Orwell influenced me to take a personal series of photographs outside of my college work inspired by my childhood. I have read David Campany’s book film and photography, and this has also added strongly to my contextual knowledge of photography and film. I have also studied the classic Susan Sontag, On Photography, and I have begun to engage more systematically with the study of the history of photography.

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