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Steffi Klenz, Dagenham East from the series A Scape - Students come from around the world to study photography at UCA Rochester, and we have a global and local reputation. You will find a rich and diverse student body supported by a friendly but professional culture. Your own creative, technical, and intellectual evolution is supported and [...]
‘Live’ Timetable: 2013
Below are the instructions for Subscribing to iCal (Apple Mac/iPhone/iPad users), Outlook Express (Windows) and iCloud scheduler. Its strongly advised to use the ‘live’ timetable, so do see the iCal and iCloud setup guide. The timetable will automatically update. Do get into the habit of reading your ‘uncreative’ emails. Tutors and Campus Registry staff often [...]
Fashion Unit Assessment: Presentation Guidelines
FASHION CONSTRUCTED IMAGE: FINAL PRESENTATION: 14th MAY Dear all, please see below relevant information regarding your assessment for the Fashion Unit. Please study the information carefully – each team member must contribute to the joint presentation. Be confident, but also reflective. Remember the assessment panel is not interested in how the team critically review the learning undertaken [...]
Fashion Unit Deliverables: Layout & Pagination
Ref: Javier Vallhonrat, Heartbreak Hotel, British Vogue, 2013 - To help teams with both the understanding of fashion narratives and the sequencing of images, please see the InDesign file here. The InDesign file has 7 pages. Please leave the first page blank. The following 6 pages make up 3 double page spreads. Each page is [...]
Assessment Guidelines
Dear all, please see below relevant information regarding your assessment of the Commission Unit. Please study the information carefully and come prepared. Be confident and assured and the assessment will be okay. Remember the assessment panel is not interested in making this a painful process for you. Assessment Soon it will be time to have [...]
Workshop: Experiments with Archive Photography
Ref: Tracey Affleck. Photographer, educator, alumni is running a couple of free workshops in Rochester on experimenting with archive film and photography. Working primarily with archive imagery, she has a degree in Photography from the University for the Creative Arts, Rochester along with a post-graduate teaching qualification. Tracey also teaches at UCA on a sessional basis. [...]
Set-build Resources
Ref: Rhea Thierstein, for W Magazine shoot with Tim Walker. Attaching giant paintings to walls of a stately home. To support the realisation of the sets, I’ve compiled a list of resources to help with the build. Can I encourage all groups to draw up accurately measured floor plans and produce detailed ‘build’ lists of [...]
Contextual Studies: Lecture 6
Ref: Aziz+Cucher, Interior #5, C-Print, 50 X 72”. Please see the lecture notes from Francis Summers lecture, number 6, ‘The Digital Photograph, from Construction to Velocity’, for the Contextual Studies Unit. This can also be downloaded here. Lecture 6 The Digital Photograph_from Construction to Velocity
Online Video Tutorials
UCA has just launched a new valuable resource, from Lynda.com. This is a library of online video tutorials, , to support your learning. Numerous tutorials exist, from Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. Subjects being covered include, Project Management for Creatives, Digital Asset Management and DSLR Video Film Making. As a UCA student you can setup an account, [...]
Darkroom: Extended Opening Times
ref: Richard Nicholson, Brian Dowling’s darkroom, owner of BDI Colour Lab. Brian prints for Nick Knight, Anton Corbijn and Juergen Teller. He is perhaps the finest remaining printer in London. To support the submission of your Commission Unit, we have arranged to extended the opening times of the darkrooms. It is important that the last print [...]
Fashion Unit: Formative Review
FORMATIVE REVIEW 5TH & 8TH MARCH Please remind yourselves of this week’s schedule and see the iCal schedule for your specific time slot. We will once again be in the MA Base Room, on the lower 4th. GUIDELINES FOR THE PRESENTATION Using the structure used in the Research Feedback Seminars when the teams presented their [...]
Exhibition Groups
Please see below the confirmed exhibition groups. EXHIBITION GROUP MAGENTA: Social Issues/Portraits Agne Bekeraityte Kamil Raczynski Robert Young Daniel Warnecke Taylor Dawn Fortune EXHIBITION GROUP RED: Experiemental Aesthetics Hazel Thompson Molly Farmer Nick Constant Conor Galloway Rajesh Bhusal EXHIBIITION GROUP BLUE: Human Mourning/Graveyard Christine Kirk Jareth Fletcher Miller Dexter Bailey-Mason Ieva Gelezinyte Franceska [...]
Fashion in the context of the Portrait
Ref: Mark Borthwick, Fashion Show at Alleged Gallery, 2001. Please see the embedded lecture notes from Professor Ulrich Lehmann’s lecture on ‘Fashion in the context of the Portrait’. This is to support both your visual practice units this term. The document can also be downloaded here as well as viewed online. Fashion and the Portrait
Contextual Studies: Lecture 5
Ref: Guy Bourdin, untitled, 1978. Please see the lecture notes from Francis Summers lecture, number 5, ‘a Question of Beauty’, for the Contextual Studies Unit. This can also be downloaded here. Lecture 05 – A Question of Beauty