Topic 3 - Authorship and Collaboration - Reflection
How have you allowed the input of others to shape your photographic practice? The majority of my photography has taken place as a solo endeavour. When I have been with other people taking photographs, I have taken on board their feedback on my images. This feedback has primarily been based on something visual rather than technical. This hasn’t always been something that I have continued using once trying. What is your attitude towards drawing on the ideas of other people, or their work? I think that one way to learn and improve it to look at what other people have looked at to done, then using it as inspiration rather than copying exactly. As a self-taught photographer a lot of my photographic practice has come from me looking at what other photographers have done and using it as inspiration. For example my version of the David Hockney Joiner photographs. I used his work as inspiration but completed different subjects. Where do you see the line between ‘collab...
