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  • Assignments
    • Assignment 1
      • Assignment 1: Initial Ideas
      • Assignment 1: process
      • Assignment 1: Inspiration
      • Assignment 1: Thoughts on selection, processing and presentation
      • Assignment 1: Peer feedback
      •  Assignment 1: Local Communities 
      •  Assignment 1: Reflection 
      • Assignment 1: The Democratic Document 
      • Assignment 1: Response to tutor feedback
      • Assignment 1: Final Version
    • Assignment 2: Single Image Narratives
      • Assignment 2: The Commodity as Spectacle
      • Assignment 2: Reflection
      • Assignment 2: Rework Experiments
      • Assignment 2: Response to tutor feedback 
      • Assignment 2: Final Version
    • Assignment 3: Visual Storytelling
      • Preparation for Assignment 3: David Campbell Lecture
      • Assignment 3: Ideas
      • Assignment 3: Influences, approach and experiments
      • Assignment 3: 13 Elizabeth Street
      • Assignment 3: Reflection
      • Assignment 3: Response to tutor feedback
      • Assignment 3: Final Version
    • Assignment 4: Critical Review
      • Assignment 4: ideas
      • Assignment 4: Critical Review – War photography and control: Vietnam to Abu Ghraib
      • Assignment 4: response to tutor feedback
      • Assignment 4: Final Version
    • Assignment 5: Personal Project
      • Assignment 5: Ideas and Influences
      • Assignment 5: The Past We Inherit
      • Assignment 5: Response to Tutor Feedback
      • Assignment 5: Final Version
    • ASSIGNMENT 6
      • Assignment 6: Pre-assessment review
  • Coursework
    • Part 1: Defining Documentary
      • Exercise 1-1: What is documentary?
      • Exercise 1-2: Realism
      • Exercise 1-3: Time and context
      • Exercise 1-4: Discontinuities
      • Exercise 1-5: A Postmodern Documentary
      • Exercise 1-6: The Myth of Objectivity
      • Exercise 1-7: A Decisive Moment?
      • Research
        • Merging genres, merging media
        • What makes a document?
        • The Decisive Moment 
    • Part 2: The B&W Document
      • Exercise 2-1: Legacy Documentary for Social Change 
      • Exercise 2-2: Survival Programmes
      • Exercise 2-3: Bill Brandt’s Art of the Document 
      • Exercise 2-4: Discussing Documentary 
      • Exercise 2-5: Continuing the Tradition
      • Exercise 2-6: Narrative 
      • Exercise 2-7: The Americans
      • Exercise 2-8: Information and expression 
      • Exercise 2-9: People Surveys 
      • Exercise 2-10: B&W portraits as a documentary strategy
      • Exercise 2-11: Classification
      • Exercise 2-12: The FSA – ‘Making Sense of Documentary Photography’
      • Exercise 2-13: Street Photographs
      • Exercise 2-14: A Japanese Connection
      • Research
        • Socially Committed B&W Photographers 
        • Semiotics
        • An ‘anthropology of ourselves’
        • The FSA
        • B&W and Surrealism
        • Vivian Maier
    • Part 3: A Colour Vision
      • Exercise 3-1: A subtle colour documentary
      • Exercise 3-2: Surrealism and colour documentary
      • Exercise 3-3: Travelling gazes
      • Exercise 3-4: Travel Photography
      • Exercise 3-5: The Roma Journeys
      • Exercise 3-6: Documentary, identity and place
      • Exercise 3-7: A British Tradition
      • Exercise 3-8: Martin Parr Territory
      • Exercise 3-9: England Uncensored
      • Exercise 3-10: Imaginary Documents
      • Exercise 3-11: Performative Documents
      • Exercise 3-12: Fictional Documents
      • Research
        • An introduction to part 3: A Colour Vision
        • Colour and Modernity: William Eggleston’s Guide
        • Surrealist elements in colour documentary
        • Reflexivity, authorship and a sense of place
        • Hannah Starkey and Charley Murrell
    • Part 4: Ethics and Looking at the Other
      • Exercise 4-1: Gaze and control
      • Exercise 4-2: The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes
      • Exercise 4-3: Documents of conflict and suffering
      • Exercise 4-4: Imaging famine
      • Exercise 4-5: The ethics of aesthetics
      • Exercise 4-6: To print or not to print…
      • Exercise 4-7: Reflecting on the war photograph
      • Exercise 4-8: Post-colonial ethnography
    • Part 5: New Forums for Documentary
      • Exercise 5-1: The real in the twentieth century photograph
  • Reflection
    • Aims and goals of documentary
    • Introductory Tutor Phonecall
    • Hangouts
      • Documentary Hangout 1
      • Documentary Hangout 2
      • Documentary Hangout 3
      • Documentary Hangout 4
      • Documentary Hangout 5 
      • Documentary Hangout 7
      • Documentary Hangout 8 
      • Documentary Hangout 8th April 2018
    • Case study: peer sharing and crediting (Response 1)
    •  Speaking to the Future
    • Thoughts on the learning log, coursework and progress
    • OCA North Study Event – Newcastle, 8th September 2018
  • Exhibitions
    • Dave Jordano: Detroit: Unbroken Down. Side Gallery, Newcastle.
    • Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr. Bowes Museum. 
    • Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen: The Coal Coast
    • Gordon Parks: A Choice of Weapons – Side Gallery, Newcastle
    • Chuck Close: Tapestries. Ushaw College, Co. Durham.
    • Chris Killip: The Last Ships. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.
  • Notes
    • ‘Documentary, Document, Testimony’ Jean-François Chévrier
    • The Paradox of Documentary: Witold Krassowski – ‘Three things on teaching and the taught’
    • Susie Linfield: Vogue Italia Interview (2014)
    • Street Photography Now – introduction (notes)
  • Photographers
    • Introduction to ‘Photographers’ section
    • Mohamed Bourouissa
    • Robbie Cooper
    • Witold Krassowski
    • Paul Reas
    • Simon Roberts
    • Monique Stauder
    • Phillip Toledano

Michael Millmore: Documentary

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Category: Reflection

OCA North Study Event – Newcastle, 8th September 2018

Posted on September 8, 2018October 3, 2018 by Michael Millmore

The OCA North study group is an initiative started by fellow student Andrew Fitzgibbon which aims to build a network… Read more OCA North Study Event – Newcastle, 8th September 2018

Thoughts on the learning log, coursework and progress

Posted on April 30, 2018May 8, 2018 by Michael Millmore

Since I read this post on the weareoca blog a couple of weeks ago, I have been reflecting on how… Read more Thoughts on the learning log, coursework and progress

Documentary Hangout 8th April 2018

Posted on April 22, 2018May 1, 2018 by Michael Millmore

Attendance: Me, Bryn, Anne One of the issues with distance learning is that the feeling of isolation can sometimes be… Read more Documentary Hangout 8th April 2018

 Speaking to the Future

Posted on October 22, 2017October 27, 2017 by Michael Millmore

Speaking to the Future was an afternoon of presentations and discussion organised by Amber (the collective that operate the Side gallery… Read more  Speaking to the Future

Case study: peer sharing and crediting (Response 1)

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Michael Millmore

This post is the result of a conversation and subsequent experiment in collaborative reflection initiated by fellow documentary student Bryn… Read more Case study: peer sharing and crediting (Response 1)

Documentary Hangout 7

Posted on July 30, 2017August 9, 2017 by Michael Millmore

Attendance: Me, Bryn, Jonathon No one had any work to share today and the discussion proved to be quite free… Read more Documentary Hangout 7

Documentary Hangout 5 

Posted on June 4, 2017August 9, 2017 by Michael Millmore

4 attendees: Me, Bryn, Maurice, Anne Maurice:  Now moved to level 3 – asked us to look at two ideas… Read more Documentary Hangout 5 

Documentary Hangout 4

Posted on May 7, 2017May 9, 2017 by Michael Millmore

5 attendees: Me, Maurice, Johnathon, Bryn and Anne Johnathon: Assignment 2 – Ephemerality of the image For assignment 2 Johnathon… Read more Documentary Hangout 4

Documentary Hangout 3

Posted on April 9, 2017May 7, 2017 by Michael Millmore

4 attendees: Me, Maurice, Johnathon, Leonie Johnathon – assignment 2 Insta photographs rephotographed Idea – the ephemerality of the image… Read more Documentary Hangout 3

Documentary Hangout 2

Posted on March 12, 2017April 21, 2017 by Michael Millmore

Attendance: Anne, Miriam, Maurice, Johnathon Anne: Idea for assignment 3: Wild Boar in the Forest of Dean – contentious issue… Read more Documentary Hangout 2

Documentary Hangout 1

Posted on February 19, 2017April 21, 2017 by Michael Millmore

I was pleased to take part in the first hangout to be organised by students currently studying documentary with OCA.… Read more Documentary Hangout 1

Introductory Tutor Phonecall

Posted on February 14, 2017March 5, 2017 by Michael Millmore

On Monday 13th February I had a telephone conversation with my tutor Simon Barber. The purpose of this was to… Read more Introductory Tutor Phonecall

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