Field Reflection

PAINTING 101 The first field module I had was Painting 101. It started with a visit to Pit Rivers museum, where by we picked an object to focus on. When I started this course I hope that I would obtain new skills that I could refer back to my practice of illustration. At first I […]

Psychogeography – Project Reflection

My aim for this project was to observe people in a natural environment. I used Cardiff city centre as my location, mainly because i now live here but also because I knew i would see some interesting things. I am very interested in the fact that we take part in people watching daily whether […]

Gary Winogrand – artist research

Garry Winogrand’s bizarre and visually compelling photographs of American life during the 1960s catapulted his status as one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Throwing away the established traditions of Street Photography set forth by his predecessors, his photographs often appear haphazard, tilted, and poorly composed – what came to be called […]

People Watching Project

People watching or crowd watching is the act of observing people and their interactions, usually without their knowledge. It involves picking up on idiosyncrasies to try to guess at another person’s story. This includes speech in action, relationship interactions, body language, expressions, clothing and activities. Eavesdropping may accompany the activity, though is not required. For some people […]

Maciej Dakowicz

Maciej is a Polish photographer, traveller and educator. He holds a PhD in computer science, but abandoned science in 2009 to focus on photography. He is one of the founders of Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff and member of the international street photography collective In-Public. He has worked on various photographic projects, judged numerous photography […]

My Homeless Project – Steve Huff (artist research)

My Homeless Project 2006-2008 The homeless population in America is growing every year and a few years ago I lived in an area that seemed to have many homeless men and women walking the streets. As I took my daily walks I would see them, say hi, help them out with food and water or […]

Psychogeography – Week 3

We had group tutorials where we were able to disscuss our ideas for this project. I spoke about the ideas that I had and the one that everyone felt was the strongest was an observational project, whereby I would go into Cardiff and other spaces and observe the wa people act in these areas. For […]

Psychogeography – Week 2

For our next task, we were given a place to go to on a map. In groups of 3 we went to our destinations, our group focused on atlas road and Cardiff road. We walked around the area and obsevered our surroundings. When walking around the area we passed a church, it was called St. […]

Psychogeography – Week 2

We were required to make a map of our route to university everyday, I basically made mine quite personal for example, I documented things that I do everyday and things that I see. I went with a traditional style map, when I think of maps I instantly think of them having a key. When […]

My Perception Of Psychogeography

I perceive psychogeography to be the combination of psychology and geography. The duality of these two things creates something else. I think that it creates an idea or a thought process. When a person is in a certain place it sparks emotions and certain memories of a persons past, or even the future. For example […]