Lee Abbey

Empathy in Photography

This was originally written as part of Exercise 5.1 but I have stripped out this large section for clarity as a learning log post around empathy. This exercise seems to make a big deal of empathy which in reality is dragging you towards shooting human subjects – I had a hard time with researching bothContinue reading “Empathy in Photography”

Assignment 5 – Ideas & Research

I have ended up with a far more intimate set of images than I expected. The look and feel of them came together in a morning after I had already spent a week trying to put together a completely different assignment. My first thought was inspired by a headline on the BBC about there beingContinue reading “Assignment 5 – Ideas & Research”

Assignment 5 – Photography is Simple

Take a series of 10 photographs of any subject exploring the theme ‘Photography is Simple’. Each photograph should be a unique view; in other words it should contain some new information, rather than repeat the information of the previous image. For research, discarded ideas, technical information and bibliography please see here I have come fullContinue reading “Assignment 5 – Photography is Simple”

Exercise 5.3 – Looking at Photography

A short response to Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare… Everyone knows this image but being asked to single out an element to return to – a pivotal point in the image that the eyes return too I have to scratch my head a little because at first it’s obvious – its the foot, a fraction ofContinue reading “Exercise 5.3 – Looking at Photography”

Exercise 5.2 – Homage

Repulsive and beautiful. Much of the work of Maisie Cousins could be described with those two words. I came across her a year or two ago by accident listening to Radio 4 talking to young female artists of which Maisie was one (along with Juno Calypso I think). When I looked her up I wasContinue reading “Exercise 5.2 – Homage”

Research Point – Context

Look at the image below and think about what you see? Now consider these words, pick one from each line and then look at the image again – the context of the image changes because of this. Who? PERVERT / PROSTITUTE / FATHER / FRIEND / ALCOHOLIC Where? LUNCH / AFTER WORK / FUNERAL /Continue reading “Research Point – Context”

Exercise 5.1 – The Distance Between Us

So to choose an image for this without forcing myself to shoot family meant going back to images I had taken in lockdown. The image I have chosen is actually something I had pretty much forgotten about as I was unhappy with it. I still am really, but in a way the part I amContinue reading “Exercise 5.1 – The Distance Between Us”

Assignment 4: Languages of Light

Research (including any references) and thoughts on this assignment can be found here. Assignment 4 is a series of Rocks that I have found whilst out walking in the fields of suffolk. I have tried to convey in the images and words the thoughts, the textures and the beauty of found objects, something so innocuousContinue reading “Assignment 4: Languages of Light”

Languages of Light Research

Research for this assignment was a bit easier and less fraught with self questioning and doubt than Assignment 3. It was very early on after looking at Jean-Baptiste Huyn’s images that I knew I wanted to work on rocks for this assignment so with this already being decided the research I did was around thingsContinue reading “Languages of Light Research”

Exercise 4.4 Personal Voice

Make a Google Images search for ‘landscape’, ‘portrait’, or any ordinary subject such as ‘apple’ or ‘sunset’. Add a screengrab of a representative page to your learning log and note down the similarities you find between the images.Now take a number of your own photographs of the same subject, paying special attention to the ‘Creativity’Continue reading “Exercise 4.4 Personal Voice”