Reflection on People and Place

P&P is my third photography course with OCA.  I received above average marks in assessments for The Art of Photography (Nov 2013) and Digital Photographic Practice (Nov 2014).

While a new course usually brings new challenges and different experiences, my time on People and Place was unique in several respects.

Suggested Reading/Viewing: Text with Image

The suggested items were intended to illustrate the use of text with images.

Janet Cardiff – Alter Bahnohoff Video
The tutor provided a link to an eight-minute excerpt from the full 26-minute film, a project within a project, in which the camera records someone viewing a film on a mobile device.  The point of view is the viewer.  All we see of the viewer is his right hand holding the mobile device.  The film being watched was shot in the same train station in which the viewer is standing. As the view in the film moves around the station, so too does the viewer, creating a film within a film.  This is an intriguing idea, but after you figure out what is happening, there is little left to see and you are left to follow the narration, which I didn’t find particularly engaging.  This is an example of aural text.

http://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/walks/alterbahnhof_video.html