PROJECT BRIEF - FP5002.

BA Photography – Kingston School of Art

MODULE: FP5002.   LEVEL: 5.   CREDITS: 30

TITLE:Photography and Process: TB1

Deadline date: Wednesday 29^th April 2020 (as a digital submission ONLY to KU BOX) – instructions and link to follow by email and will also be on Canvas). This is for the final and complete digital portfolio of works (Society & Identity projects - summative assessment – see module descriptor).

WHEN & WHERE:

FP5002 will take place on Fridays starting on October 18^th 2019 with Anthony Lam (in room LB206) and in tutor groups (with Charlie, Diego or Anthony) on Thursday mornings starting from 10am for individual timeslots. You will be expected to make and produce a concise and serious photographic series in response to the below theme set.

All Kingston School of Art students also have free access many online video tutorials at LinkedIn Learning:

MODULE Brief – TB1

Photography and Society

"They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society…”.[1]



A wide range of contemporary lens-based practitioners work with the notion of ‘society’ in their practice. Society is all persuasive and inclusive/exclusive(?)! We are all part of it and yet remain an individual within the mass. What exactly is society to you and how will you make photographic works that reflect your interests, bias and experience? We will explore society with presentations, seminars and exhibition visits. 

Your challenge is to produce within a collaborative partnership (with one other student or other creative, you will be graded individually) a succinct and cohesive series of photographic insights and images that reflect personally (or not) on the theme of society. You might want to look at the ‘bigger picture’ or concentrate your activity on ‘lesser’ concerns, aspects or issues that are important to you when considering society. You can approach this in any genre (fine art, fashion, studio, documentary photography etc.) and with a multitude of production processes. You should pay particular attention to the production of your final digital images. You will be encouraged to build and extend your production process expertise through the development of your own independent practice and research in response to the theme of society.

The brief allows you to further develop your confidence in working critically as individuals and most important collaboratively and to final resolution. You will continue to use research and reflective journals as a means of analysing practice, context, research and making evident your thinking and working processes – as well as mapping any production process expertise acquired.

NEW SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

1.  EITHER a final DIGITAL folio of 10 individual images. You can photograph your actual prints and submit these as digital files if preferred. Present as individual image files and numbered: YOUR SURNAME_FP5002_SOCIETY_001. Then follow up with image 002 etc.
2. Well documented research (photographers, process notes etc.), reflective continual critical thinking including all contact sheets, editing decisions made and any other photography. Submit as a digital upload – either a PDF/PowerPoint/ Word doc/ OR your physical books’ pages photographed on your smartphone as jpegs and numbered and uploaded onto KU Box.
3.  A supporting statement explaining the folio series (no longer than 1 side of A4) and a final evaluation of the photography series and processes undertaken (no longer than 2 sides of A4). Format as a digital WORD doc or PDF file and upload onto KU Box.