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This is your website so please use it to keep up to date with news, projects, information, ideas, images, lectures...
MONDAY :
ePortfolio day! Please bring in your portfolios ready to make your eportfolios!
NO LECTURE TODAY - this eportfolio session will last all day. Collect the BOOKLET from Emma in the morning, read carefully.
The technician, Peter, will be available to make sure you can get really good
images!THIS IS FOR ALL FOUNDATION STUDENTS, FULL TIME AND PART TIME,WHETHER YOU ARE APPLYING THIS YEAR OR NOT
WEDNESDAY - APPLIED PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP - get on with your A3 campaign poster for EITHER dyslexia or Alzheimer's. Collect your objects (at least twelve), make your labels, compose your image. Take at least TWENTY images. Research here: ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY
or BRITISH DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION
Re-read Paul's Technical Notes in the last brief and get busy! Research Support Groups and Charities to gain insights and logos.
FRIDAY - FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY. Collect your object, or objects, break and repair, but badly, inadequately. Photograph both IN and OUT of context, thinking carefully about lighting, mood, focus, etc. Re-read the Technical Notes to be sure you optimise the images! Your approach should be elegiac, mournful, wistful.
Photograph by David Bate DAVID BATE WEBSITE
ALSO TAKE A LOOK AT THESE MARUYAMA PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAYBE TRY SOME AT 1000th or 200th SECOND!
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS PIECE BY PAUL'S FRIEND ORO GERSHT (BUT DON'T TRY AT HOME!)
ANS THE OPPOSITE, IN A WAY, BY SAM TAYLOR-WOOD
ISTANBUL
FINAL REMINDER : PLEASE BRING IN YOUR PASSPORTS AND SPECIFIC CONSENT FORMS
ISTANBUL FASHION WEEK IS THE EXACT WEEK WE ARE THERE!
LOADS OF INFORMATION HERE: ISTANBUL FASHION WEEK
VIDEO OF LAST YEAR'S FASHION WEEK:
The Progression Day was a real success. Thank you to all our ex-students for
taking the time:
Laura, Gary, Greg, Billy, Fiona, Amelia, Lucinda, Richard, Bruno, and Jack
GREG'S WEBSITE IS HERE: GREG'S WEBSITE
Thanks you to you also for making everyone so welcome and for being so appreciative. It was a really inspiring day!
ISTANBUL - HOTEL LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE
PLEASE BRING IN THE BALANCE OF YOUR TRIP COST ON MONDAY TOGETHER WITH YOUR PASSPORT
LECTURE LAST WEEK : DADA
CARBONMADE
It is time to get cracking on your eportfolios!
Take a look at Marianne's to see how smart Carbonmade can look:
CLICK TO START YOUR ePORTFOLIO : START YOUR CARBONMADE HERE
ORINOCO - great source of old paints, and lots of other stuff, inexpensive and plentiful - take a look:
ORINOCO Their mission statement:
Orinoco is a charity, based in Oxford, UK, committed to banishing boredom and saving the world. We promote re-use, art and creative play through education and direct action.
Textiles -Wednesday 
HOTEL ERBOY WEBSITE, WHERE WE ARE STAYING: HOTEL IN ISTANBUL
Here is a video I made just walking round the city :