Week Eleven Reflections – Professional Location of Practice

mickyates Audience, Business, Coursework, Critical Research Journal, Documentary, Event, Ideas, Personal, Photography, Portrait, Practice, Professional, Reflections, Reportage, Social Media, SPWeek11, Sustainable Prospects 2 Comments

For this week’s reflections, I want to discuss my Practice, and where it is going. Following on from the ‘Let’s Talk Business‘ and ‘Back to the Beginning – My Photographic DNA‘ work, I developed a new Artist’s Statement. My work is ‘Unfinished Stories’. Life is always in motion, every moment creates a sense of place or personality. Having travelled and worked …

Surfaces & Strategies Oral Presentation

mickyates Aftermath, Cambodia, ContextualResearch, Coursework, Critical Research Journal, Documentary, Environmental, Genocide, Ideas, Movies, Oral Presentation, Photography, Project Development, SSWeek12, Stories, SurfacesStrategies 3 Comments

 I am exploring the long-term impact of the Khmer Rouge Genocide, and especially its impact on education. This includes revisiting our family history with that country and its people. Rather than creating a documentary about that Genocide, I see it as contextfor the real focus of my project, which is capturing and making public the unfinished stories from Cambodians, …