Dave MaceyMA                     Photographer

The second part of Camera Lucida is full of grief. It is tangible in the words and expressions that Barthes uses, and in being so, it...

It has long been the case that people have pictures on their mobile devices, their camera phones, normally of friends or families, and...

Ok, it’s been a bit longer than a week, but my excuse is an attack of man flu! Picking up where the last entry finished, I read Art by...

I managed to do some reading over Christmas, between stuffing my face and the Xbox! I read some of Feeling and Form by Susanne Langer,...

Recently I have been looking deeper into the expression theory and have come across the book Aesthetics by Anne Sheppard and an article...

Ok, I know its been a while but didn’t think it would be as long as this! So, first of all I need to post a quick update. I have decided...

As I am planning to psychoanalyse the work of Annie Leibovitz, I thought it would be prudent to actually read either an article or a book...

I finally got around to having my first tutorial with Karen and I do feel that it was very constructive. It feels that I am being given...

Recently I read a chapter of Photography by Stephen Bull about Photography and Celebrity. As I’ve come to expect from Bull, the chapter...

Recently I read “Can You Handle My Truth?”: Authenticity and the Celebrity Star Image by Erin Meyers. Unsurprisingly she gives a lot of...

So, this all starts again! For the MA I have decided to write a 25,000 word thesis instead of pursuing any practice based methods. The...

Statement of Intent. With a political manifesto it is a statement of a vision of Utopia, that if everything was run along the lines of...

Critique and Evaluation. Throughout the production of the Conservative Manifesto I have tried to follow a theme which was emphasised in...

Statement of Intent. In this day and age where virtually everyone is connected to the internet and we can contact others or leave...

Critique and Evaluation Below I've done an analysis of the final 10 images and also included then in the gallery at the bottom of the...

I’ve been editing the manifesto and made a few changes to some of the pages, which can be seen in the gallery below In total I only...

I have finally finished editing the film. I decided to swap around clips four and five and I also changed the audio, it’s the same clip...

I’ve been looking further into the campaign posters and I now finally have 5 that I am reasonably happy with, which are discussed...

I have now received back the 5x4 negs from the last shoot at Little Stone Wood. All nine of the images are self portraits of me standing...

I’ve started to consider how I am going to make the campaign posters, on their actual design and layout. I’ve tried various ideas but...