Cambodia Plans & Notes

Ongoing notes on the Cambodia project

Final Major Project Posts
  • National Library of Cambodia August 15, 2019
    Header image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Cambodia#/media/File:National_Library_-_panoramio_(1).jpg .. Creative Commons License
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  • Archives August 6, 2019
    For both the book and the exhibition, I want to illustrate some of the history of Cambodia, and especially the Khmer Rouge years.. My own ...
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  • RPS Contemporary Group August 2, 2019
    I had noted in May that the RPS Contemporary Group planned to publish some of my work. Well, on returning from Rencontres d’Arles and vacation, ...
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  • Week Eight Reflections July 28, 2019
    This was our first visit to Rencontres d’Arles, and it will not be the last. A terrific experience. The venues and presentation puts Paris Photo, ...
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  • DC-Cam Archives June 30, 2019
    As part of the FMP Installation, I intend to have a section on the history of the Khmer Rouge. The Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam), ...
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  • Cambodian History June 25, 2019
    As part of any installation, public discussion or book, I need to ensure that the presentation of the facts of history are totally correct. This ...
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  • FMP Project Proposal June 22, 2019
    Submitted the Proposal, timeline and Risk assessment Downloadable here: FMP Final Project Proposal & Risk Assessment ………………….. Header: Mick Yates. 2001. Ta Prohm, Angkor.
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  • Print Exploration June 22, 2019
    For a few years, I have used Loxley Colour in Scotland as my exhibition printer, and they are the provider for any customer orders taken ...
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  • Lewis Bush – Storytelling Workshop June 16, 2019
    I attending a workshop this weekend with Lewis Bush, on Storytelling. A little while ago I had written on ‘Narrative versus Story‘, which included some ...
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  • Lewis Bush – Storytelling Workshop Notes June 16, 2019
    Section One: Story versus narrative  One story (event) can produce multiple narratives. Narratives are all about choices and decisions. Narrative directs audiences. From my earlier post on Narrative © Beemgee ...
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  • FMP Week One Reflections June 9, 2019
    Well, here we go. the end of the first week of Final Major Project, although (based on my CRJ writings), it does seem to have ...
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  • Venue for FMP Installation June 7, 2019
    I got confirmation today that I have two weeks at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, December 4th onwards (effectively until Christmas).  This is ...
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  • Pecha Kucha Feedback June 5, 2019
    Had the first proper 1-1 with Wendy on the FMP, around the Pecha Kucha. I think it’s fair to say Wendy really liked the presentation and ...
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  • My Practice and Slide Film June 2, 2019
    In the FMP, I will be re-looking at my photographic and other archives. Pretty much from the start of my photography, I used 35mm slide film. ...
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  • Webinar with Wendy April 30, 2019
    Had a very good ‘kick-off’ conversation with Wendy, today. We talked a little about the FMP process, and where I was on the Cambodian project. I ...
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  • Book Design Inspiration April 30, 2019
    In searching for inspiration for the book design, Vicky found Anna Kremenetskaya’s work, for a book on the Berlin Wall. We were both taken by ...
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Informing Contexts Posts
  • Informing Contexts – Grades – Where To, Now? May 31, 2019
    I have just received the grades for Informing Contexts – 69% overall, pretty much in line with Sustainable Prospects,  Surfaces & Strategies and Positions and ...
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  • Afterwards April 16, 2019
    I thought that I had posted about Afterwards before, but somehow it got missed. It was one of the first books that I bought, early ...
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  • Feeling a little frustrated March 28, 2019
    There is some kind of irony in the fact that, just as I (and others) feel that I am making some real breakthroughs in the ...
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  • Edward Kienholz – The Beanery March 26, 2019
    Edward Kienholz (1927-1994) is one of my favourite artists, any media. The Beanery is a life size, walk-in assemblage, and it is often considered his ...
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  • Pictures and Words March 17, 2019
    Robert Frank said, ‘Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference, and it is important to see what is invisible to others’. (cited ...
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  • Book Design March 17, 2019
    From the beginning of this project, I have been planned a book capturing the ‘Unfinished Stories’ of Sarath and family. Whether this is actually my ...
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  • Week Five Reflections March 3, 2019
    I have two kinds of reflections this week. First, what happened on the last days of my Cambodian trip. And, second, where I stand with ...
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  • Colour, Black & White or Infrared March 1, 2019
    On this last Cambodia trip, I was experimenting with infrared, being intrigued with its ‘ghost like’ properties. I shared a few quick images at the ...
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  • Ministry of Education February 27, 2019
    Beng Simeth, who was at Save the Children in Phnom Penh when we first started the program, has been the education program leader for the ...
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  • Week Four Reflections February 27, 2019
    This is a rather delayed post on last week’s reflections, as it has been a busy (thankfully, productive) trip, so these comments are in the ...
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  • Week Three Reflections February 17, 2019
    As I write this, I am on Day 3 of a two week Cambodia trip, so most of my thought processes are focused on the ...
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  • Traces, Spaces, Faces, Places February 16, 2019
    With your peers, discuss whether you think the constructed photographs included in this session ‘lie’, the extent these photographs are fictional, and the methods you use to ‘interpret’ ...
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  • IC Week One Reflections February 2, 2019
    It has been a good start to the new module, with a good range of intellectual content, and helpful first online discussions with Michelle and ...
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  • Soviet Holocaust Photography January 29, 2019
    I have just been reading a paper written by David Shneer, in the Humanity Journal, 2014, University of Pennsylvania. Shneer discusses the approach taken by ...
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  • Infrared Photography January 17, 2019
    As referenced in my last Oral Presentation, I want to develop my ‘negative traces’ work using different photographic techniques. For the Sustainable Prospects Work in ...
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  • Cultural Context January 13, 2019
    Almost all of this MA program to date uses a European / American ‘gaze’, in its choice of reading and referenced photographers – even the ...
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Positions & Practice Posts
Surfaces & Strategies Posts
  • Book Dummy August 20, 2018
    Now that I have completed selection of images for the Work in Progress portfolio, and finished Landings, it seemed right to update the book dummy. I ...
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  • This week’s ‘to do’ August 5, 2018
    Well, where to start .. 1. WIP: Go through the images from the past two weeks trip to Cambodia. Sort into themes, and start the process ...
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  • Week Nine reflections – Cambodian Narrative August 4, 2018
    It was a very busy but productive time in Cambodia. My reflections this week (partly whilst sitting on the plane home) are about clarifying the narrative. ...
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  • Webinar with Gary, July 31st July 31, 2018
    Notes from today’s webinar with Gary, not necessarily in order of importance, and referring my last weekly reflections – Week 7 and Week 8. Noting that ...
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  • Images So Far July 15, 2018
    A selection of images for the project so far. First, a small selection from my last visit to Cambodia. Second, experimental work on developing ways to show ...
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  • My Friend’s Mother Passed Away – I Missed My Mother July 15, 2018
    The first fully-translated ‘story’ from Sarath. Warning: gruesome reading in parts. …………………………….. It was possibly in 1977, I do not know for sure, but it was a ...
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  • Conversation with Lukas Birk July 13, 2018
    Following an introduction from Cemre, had a terrific conversation today with Lukas Birk. I explained a little of my background, motivations and the Cambodia project itself. These ...
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  • Ideas, Ideas, Ideas – Opening the Curtain July 3, 2018
    An interesting conjunction of events. First, it’s been made clear that we need to consider mounting an ‘Exhibition’ (‘Landings’, online or otherwise), giving a Workshop, and ...
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  • Documentary & Art June 29, 2018
    Had a very good webinar today with Cemre and Yas. Just want to jot my thoughts down here, not in any particular order. Cemre asked about ...
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  • Week Three Reflections June 25, 2018
    For this week’s reflections, a little late, a few questions stood out. How could your subjects be influencing you and your approach? Well, unfortunately that has been ...
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  • Rephotography June 13, 2018
    In preparation for the next Cambodia trip, taking Cemre’s advice, I’ll be looking at the implications of this project for our family. As noted elsewhere, our ...
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  • Here we go again … June 11, 2018
    Slick system. Applied at 10:04 this morning. Got confirmation at 10:08! The planned trip is from July 22 for a couple of weeks, meeting old colleagues, friends ...
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Sustainable Prospects Posts