CONSIDERING COLOUR AND LIGHTING IN THE IMAGE
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An introductory activity to help students explore what portraits can tell us about people.
Creating surrealist portraits by incorporating household objects into images.
Painting with light
How stitching and embroidering work alters materials, size, presentation
How collage work alters materials, size, presentation
An introductory Session for students
Candid shots of teachers/students
How to communicate the feeling of a place. How to make something look scary.
Developing confidence in self-representation and working collaboratively to produce images with clear intentions.
Developing an awareness of different aspects of one’s own identity and how this can be represented in a photograph.
An activity sheet designed for students to creatively explore photography exhibitions.
A short quiz for students featuring general knowledge, photography and making rounds.
Developing visual literacy through describing and then interpreting a photograph.
Exploring how body language and facial expressions offer clues to who the subject of a portrait might be.
What is the relationship between internal identity and external appearance?
A fun collage activity, encouraging students to explore the elements of a portrait.
A portrait treasure trail and photographic assignment in response to the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2015.
An activity to inspire more discussion around cultural identity.
How out of focus/hidden do we need to be before we are unrecognizable? What makes us, us? What are the signifiers?
Exploring ways of making portraits with out focusing on the face.
Photos tell stories. Thinking about what is happening outside of the frame, what may have happened one minute before the photo was taken, and imagining what might happen one minute later helps with understanding what the story/subject of the photo is and what the intention of the photographer was.
A trip to: Autograph exhibition Rock Against Racism at INIVA (includes Autograph workshop) Street Photography Activity (SEE ATTACHED POWERPOINT) Photo Month London exhibition Materials Needed: PEN AND PAPER CAMERA OR CAMERA PHONE WORKSHEETS CONCEPTS: – Experiencing and engaging with art/photography in the gallery and festival context. – Developing visual literacy through the gallery experience. …
Exhibitions: Hannah Collins (Camden Arts Centre) Shirley Baker: Women and Children; and Loitering Men (The Photographers Gallery) We Want More (The Photographers Gallery) Materials Needed: PEN AND PAPER CAMERA OR CAMERA PHONE WORKSHEETS (Available here) CONCEPTS: – Experiencing and engaging with art/photography in the gallery context. – Developing visual literacy through the gallery experience. …
How viewing a photograph in the context of an exhibition and in relation to other images can change our reading of it. Developing an understanding of how composition plays a role in the meaning of an image.
Materials Needed: CAMERA OR CAMERA PHONE CONCEPTS: – Thinking creatively about portraiture – Communicating meaning through visual imagery – Understanding self directed portraits and authorship. – Working independently – Basic editing and selection – Forward planning and organisation Which of the 5 ways-in does this activity address: Understanding: How you can represent …
A trip to: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM A) PETER KENNARD, UNOFFICIAL WAR ARTIST B) LEE MILLER, WOMEN AT WAR NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, TAYLOR WESSING PORTRAIT PRIZE Materials Needed: PEN AND PAPER CAMERA OR CAMERA PHONE WORKSHEETS CONCEPTS: – Experiencing and engaging with art/photography in the gallery and festival context. – Developing visual literacy through …
Learning to both recognise and utilise lines, light/tone,pattern and space in photography.
Extreme cropping to encourage decision making about what to include and leave out of the frame.
This activity is designed to introduce students to thinking about how they can represent a little of who they are through self portraiture. Continue reading
This activity is designed to introduce students to responding to a brief. Continue reading
Pupils are progressing with their magazines. They have prepared some supporting information on style, readership, unique selling points and key content. So each magazine is shaping up and now it’s time to shoot an image for the front cover. I set up the studio in a nearby classroom, which is a large computer suite. We … Continue reading
This activity gets students thinking about different elements that contribute to the reading and construction of an image and the impact on the difference of the site of presentation of work. It is not intended to be a question and answer session – it should be a lively discussion conducted either in two groups or small groups … Continue reading
This visual treasure hunt activity can be adjusted to wherever you are going for your trip. It is an activity designed to further develop the understanding of how images are constructed and how meaning can be developed through this image making. Continue reading
This activity asks students to identify different emotions they see in photographs, and make their own images in response. Continue reading
This visual literacy quiz was developed by Helen Cammock as a way of supporting the students to reflect on an exhibition they has visited. It encourages team building and valuing different opinions and perspectives. Continue reading
This activity is designed to explore reading images as a pair. Students are focusing on Peter Abrahams for a course module (three of his photographic diptychs are currently on loan to the school). We began by looking at the origin of diptychs from church iconography, and discussed examples of diptychs from other types of photographic … Continue reading
This activity invites students to become radio journalists. It is amazing how even reticent students will open up if asked to speak one to one, and into a mic. Perhaps it is the role-play, the prop, or the individual attention. Whatever the reason, it works. Continue reading
This activity invites students to think about the choices a photographer makes, and why. This was particularly useful for the students at Westminster Academy, who are not studying practical photography. Continue reading
This practical activity by Claire Collison uses sun prints to demystify the processes involved in pre-digital photography, in order to help students appreciate some of the decisions a photographer is (still) making. Continue reading
This activity by Claire Collison explores how much we rely on the written word, and how, when writing is present, we ‘read’ photographs as evidence, illustrating stories, true or otherwise. Continue reading
You Be The Judge was designed by Claire Collison. Useful in both exhibitions and in the classroom, the activity invites students to choose the winners out of a selection of photographs, describe the images and explain their choices. Continue reading
This activity by Claire Collison encourages students to apply their powers of observation, alongside their common sense, to demonstrate what they can deduce from images. Continue reading
This activity by Claire Collison is a light-hearted game using Martin Parr’s Love Cubes to reveal how we read portraits, and what assumptions we make. Continue reading
This activity by Claire Collison introduces students to visual literacy; inviting students to look hard at a single image. It was originally devised during the first year of the project, working with Hendon School, on a visit to the Dayanita Singh show at the Hayward Gallery, when the aim was to find links between a range of … Continue reading
This workshop was developed by Yemisi Blake for Parliament Hill students. It takes them through analysing, mind-mapping and writing their own artist statements. Continue reading
Activity developed by Yemisi Blake. This practical activity asks participants to create photographs by capturing actions or movement with a range of materials, focusing on composition and shutter speed. Continue reading
Creating Acrostics is an activity created by Claire Collison, designed to enable participants to look more closely, and to provide them with greater confidence that whatever they see in a photograph – and however they name it – is valid and valuable. Continue reading
Activity devised by Claire Collison, using portrait photography. This activity invites participants working in pairs to consider WHAT, WHO, and HOW in order to better understand the decisions made in composing a portrait. Continue reading
I prepared a visual research session as pupils are about to start producing their GCSE magazines. They have already chosen their preferred magazine themes – primarily sport, fashion and gaming. Only one pupil surprised me with her theme, in choosing magic. Even though she doesn’t practice magic, she wants to create something novel and different. … Continue reading