Dave MaceyMA                     Photographer

Last Thursday I went to London for the day and visited the imperial war museum to see the Peter Kennard exhibition. I am glad that I did...

I’ve carried on making examples of montage with the conservative manifesto using found images. The first element that I have noticed is...

Photomontage and copyright. As I am now going to be making a photo montage of the Conservative manifesto, I thought it would be prudent...

In his book, understanding a photograph, John Berger dedicates a chapter to photomontage and discusses the work of John Heartfield. In...

I’ve now started reading and looking at political montage. I’ve come across a chapter on the subject in Understanding a photograph by...

I've started looking at political montage and I have come across this article and photo essay by Fatmah Tuggar, an artist of Nigerian...

I’ve now received the feedback from the tutor on the prototype and the work done so far. To briefly summarise, the project was becoming...

Since returning from the monastary I've become a bit more experimental with Little Stone Wood (LSW) I think this is me trying to think...

Now that I had taken all the images, I now needed to organise them into a series for the book. As previously said I was going to use 15...

Here are the colour photographs that I took for the project. As mentioned before I just wanted to photograph the field in colour and...

Now that I had an idea of how to photograph the forest I then started to take the images. As mentioned before I decided to use only film...

Research So after deciding what I was going to photograph I then needed inspiration of how I was going to photograph it. With this in...

I originally started this project during the summer when I first encountered Little Stone Wood. Wiith this being the case I am now...

After deciding what I was going to photograph I then went back with my digital SLR to photograph it. This would achieve two aims, one...

So I have now returned from the monastery and I am keen to try the deadpan aesthetic to see what results I get. With this approach there...

Last night we had what has become affectionately known as Monk chat (there is a series on YouTube with the same name) and it's basically...

This might get a little bit odd... I'm still at the monastery and I went for another walk around Hammer Forest. Beforehand I went to...

I am writing this whilst staying at a buddhist monastery. I have been reading The photograph as contemporary art by Charlotte Cotton. Of...

So, here is my mixed media prototype. As a prototype should be, this is not the finished article. It is still “rough around the edges”...

Sam Tutorial I showed some of the prototype to my lecturer who gave me the following feedback: The images and the text don't really match...