Dave MaceyMA                     Photographer

The ubiquitous selfie has apparently spread throughout our culture in this digital revolution.  They appear everywhere on social media...

· Starts with Mimetic Resemblance to create a likeness between the sitter and their portrayal to confirm their identity. · ...

Shearer West – Portraiture – Chapter 1 – What is a portrait? Shearer West begins the chapter by exploring the likeness of the portrayal...

Walter Benjamin - A Short History of Photography review In this review I will be discussing the following issues: 1. The way the...

Brilliant discusses the convention of using names within portraiture and how this is used to produce an image that is representative of...

August Sander was a German Photographer mainly active during the period between the two world wars. Sander is mainly noted for his...

I am unashamedly a fanboy of Walter Benjamin. His essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction had a profound effect on...

I do love portraiture, especially self portraiture. It seems to offer that little bit extra than a normal portrait, an extra insight into...

Recently I have come across the work of Kristina Varaksina, a London based photographer. Her most recent project has been in reaction to...

There is a lot of different elements that I could discuss in this image by Vanessa Winship, but what drew me to this image is the two...

Why doI like this image? A photograph of a tree that is next to an empty road, lit by the light from the golden hour at either dawn or...

I have drawn up a brief plan of how I am going to write about Phenomenology and the self portrait. This plan is far from complete and is...

I’ve done a bit more digging about transcendentalism and uncovered another opinion. In The Phenomenological mind Gallagher & Zahavi...

I have come across something that appears to be bit of a puzzle. For a while now I have been looking into phenomenology, and currently I...

Hello and welcome to my new blog! First thing I want to say is that I doubt that anybody will actually read this! But, then again, that...

Oppositions. Initially it can seem that oppositions are self explanatory and quite straight forward, all that is needed is the exact...

In the previous post I discussed the importance of how the values of the paradigm is determined by producing a contrast. It was a case...

Paradigms. In the previous post the connection between the syntagma and the paradigm was explored and the conclusion was that the...

Language is a construction of various elements which all relate to each other and have an effect on each other. The sentence in organized...

Between Nowhere & Never: Photographs of Forgotten Places Beauty. It is enchanting, mesmerising and hypnotic. It can drag the viewer...