Credit Points: 40
This module will introduce level 1 students to the genres of documentary and landscape photography and is designed to bring together practice, technology and theory. Working to a set brief, students will progress their basic camera and darkroom skills and at the same time they will start to engage in the key debates and historical contexts that inform documentary and landscape photography.
© Gail Barnett, Documentary and Landscape 2009
The module is designed to give students a good grounding in the genres of documentary and landscape photography. Learning is facilitated through the undertaking of several small exercises and a commission brief. Students will work on location in the county of Suffolk. Their work should demonstrate a relationship with their environment.
© Ross Brown, Documentary and Landscape 2009
The practical element of this module will refresh, refine and further develop the student’s basic camera and darkroom skills. Using analogue 35mm cameras, students will learn to appropriately use their tool.
The integrated theoretical sessions will introduce students to a range of subjects relevant to documentary and landscape photography, for example: the changing role of the photojournalist due to new technology, and the various ways that the tradition of landscape – inherited from fine art – has been and continues to be interpreted by photographers.
The module structure will instil a working methodology that encourages students to experiment and research in order to discover and photographically express their feature.
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