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Defining landscape photography and its practice. Those who read my articles will know that I often struggle with terminology such as ‘landscape photographer’. For this article I thought I would explain my reasoning behind this, and how it can not only go deeper, but in an ironic twist also breed creativity and freedom. Labels are

Like may creative people, I often suffer from a bit of a creative slump. This can manifest itself in just wandering about and not taking any photos or not taking any good (or even mediocre) photos. Personally, I find there are two effective ways to get myself out of this creative slump. The first is

3This is my third attempt to write this post and has taken nearly a year to finish. One of the reasons has been research. I have been reading a lot about landscape. Both as a photographic subject but also landscape in and of itself from a geographic point of view. The sticking point is the

What is psychogeography and what does it mean for photographic practice? I first came across the term psychogeography on my MA from one of our lecturers, Dr Sebastiane Hegarty, who was organising some psychogeographic walks around Southampton. Unfortunately Covid stopped that, but I never stopped thinking about psychogeography. It seemed an interesting term for essentially

I am now also posting on Substack! – https://mposborne.substack.com Do sign up to receive new posts straight to your inbox. Photography and Fatherhood – Thinking about how photography links the generations. In June 2022 I became a father. This was understandably a huge event in my (and my wife’s) life. What with the sleepless nights,

AI generated images can imitate the visual language of photography, but in doing so they disrupt our traditional understanding of what a photograph is. Unlike conventional photographs, generative AI images often have no physical subject or original photographic event. This makes studying them interesting when considered through photographic theory, documentary truth, indexicality and Jean Baudrillard’s

Can digital cameras be appreciated alongside film cameras as the tools they are, or does nostalgia and aesthetic value always mean film cameras are appreciated more? In October 2021 I sold my Nikon D700, a camera I had desperately wanted ever since it was first released. I bought mine second-hand from my local camera shop

To finish my Master’s Degree I chose to write a dissertation (as opposed to a Final Major Project). This was initially daunting as the limit was 20,000 words (excluding quotes), but good guidance and planning meant this was filled relatively easily. I chose to write about portrait photography as this was one area that I,

Postdigital landscape photography considers how digital technologies, data and post-photographic practices have changed the way landscapes are represented. Rather than simply photographing a physical place with a camera, artists can construct landscape images from satellite imagery, topographical data and other digital sources, challenging traditional ideas about photography, authorship and our representation of the natural environment.

RThe following essay I completed as part of my MA unit ‘Writing Criticism: Critical and Analytical Frameworks‘. This was a critical writing essay on a topic of our own choice, and our first major essay of the MA. I chose to write about documentary photography and got 83/100 which I was pretty pleased with. Naturally,