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Curly Wurly 3/5/11

With deadlines looming, it’s getting pretty difficult to find the time to do anything other than course work! Luckily this has come as a nice break from sketch books and production folders and it can still serve as a source of info and research- which makes me feel like I […]

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Photo-Blog #22

This weeks Photo- Blog comes to us from a studio in New Castle: Sean Wakefield, Digital Retoucher at Alex Telfer Photography Ltd Kingsland Church Studios gives to us a very interesting method and idea: “Alone at a Table of Friends’ is from a fairly long running series I did using smaller film formats in […]

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New blogs to The Focus Project

Every week the focus project distributes multiples blogs in the realm of photography and moving image, as an easy way for you to keep track of them here is a list; Why not check them all out!

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Into the void

Within this blog space I’ll be focusing more on the film side on Focus, and try to keep it up to date with the goings on of my little world. I was originally going to write my first blog as a review of ’127 Hours’, which I saw on wednesday, […]

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A ‘Focus’ expedition

Recently some collaborators from Focus ventured to a village in lincolnshire to an abandoned psychiatric hospital as part of an on going project documenting the decay of once established buildings. The asylum has clearly been disturbed many times before due to the graffiti evident, the broken car batteries and over […]

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Photo-blog #12

This weeks photographer is by day a wedding photographer; however we will forgive her for that as her photographs are stunning and her work goes beyond your traditional wedding shoot. “As a child i used to make lists of things i wanted to achieve, and being a photographer was not […]

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Photo-Blog #11

It’s Sunday and you know what that means; a new photo-blog! This weeks contribution comes from a Gem Smith a very talented photographer with a panache for heavy concept and quotation, The image she created here is based on a famous quote by Picasso ‘I’d like to live as a […]

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Photo-Blog #10

Our next  contributor, Miles Cobley, has brought the Focus group some of his work to share: The image shows the identification tag secured to the arm of one of the Antony Gormley “Another Place” sculptures at Crosby Beach. The sculptures, iron-cast figures of the artists’ own body, are spread along […]

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Photo-blog #7

The image this week is from collaborator Jeanine Marteau: “This image is part of a document project focused on my Grandmother’s move from her house into a nursing home after she fell ill and spent some time in hospital. My Mother and Auntie packed and moved a lot of her […]

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Photo-Blog #4

This weeks Photograph comes from Jemma Carter and here is what she had to say about it. “Taking influence from Henri Cartier Bresson and his realistic documentary style of Street photography, I gave myself a project of exploring similar themes in my home city and its streets, photographing it as […]

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