Well it is time to submit my work for formal Assessment at the July 2014 event. I do like to be fairly minimalist in the way I display my photographs and like to let the images speak for themselves as such. After a conversation with Keith Roberts my tutor I decided to produce a photobook A4 landscape format with a white background. The book displays all the Assignment work and the portfolio and shows all the major parts of the course in this one publication.

I chose a premium photographic paper, I am unsure of the room where this book will be viewed so decided against high gloss paper as under certain lighting it can make the work difficult to view. The project work and photographers studies and further written assignment work can be seen on the blog  that I produced to accompany the course. Every part of the design process must be considered from book size, paper, fonts used and their size. I wanted the book to be the best I could produce as I will wish to enjoy this work when the course is over. The front cover is one of my favourite pictures with good lighting and a simple composition. The yellow of the oil seed rape and the warm evening light will hopefully set a good impression and make my work stand out from the crowd.

Reviewing the work has been interesting, especially the ‘critical review’ and in hindsight I can understand my tutors comments with regards to it not being a critical review as such. As I read it again I used the ‘book ‘Ansel Adams An Autobiography with Mary Street Alinder, Thames & Hudson 1985’ too much and wrote the piece as if it was an interview rather than a critique. (10 years as a newspaper man may have influenced me in the style and way I wrote the essay). However I did I feel gave a reasonable account of my ideas about other photographers work I looked at. Some I liked some not, however even if I did not like the work visually does not mean I did not appreciate the ideas behind the work. I do however feel it is important to try as a photographer to produce imagery that is technically good as much as we can. (Even when the subject is far more important than the result).