by Philippa James | Oct 11, 2021 | Method + Meaning, POSITIONS + PRACTICE, Reflections, TOPICS
On reflection of the Methods and Meaning topic this week, I’m reflecting on the project 100 Women of Oxford (100WOO) I exhibited in 2020 where I employed the strategy of asking one hundred women, in the comfort of their homes, a set of ten questions, that were...
by Philippa James | Oct 3, 2021 | Method + Meaning, POSITIONS + PRACTICE, TOPICS
In Gillian Wearing’s 1992 series Signs (Signs that say what you want them to say, and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say) the photographer approaches strangers in the street and asks them to write on a piece of paper what they are feeling...
by Philippa James | May 25, 2021 | Method + Meaning, POSITIONS + PRACTICE
A photographic ‘faux pau’ is what is traditionally be thought of as a ‘mistake’, such as the photographers shadow in the shot, a tree or lamp growing out of a head, out of focus, heads chopped off or if a finger or thumb is over the lens. In...
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