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Dave MaceyMA Photographer


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

Dave Macey
Apr 7, 20162 min read


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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...

Dave Macey
Apr 7, 20167 min read


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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...

Dave Macey
Apr 5, 20162 min read


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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...

Dave Macey
Apr 3, 20162 min read


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Recently I’ve been concentrating on mainly filming and editing the forest. I’ve decided to make a 5-minute film with each clip lasting...

Dave Macey
Mar 15, 20162 min read


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Recently I’ve been looking at the photographs of Thomas Struth and his Paradise series. This series of photographs are actually quite...

Dave Macey
Mar 10, 20164 min read


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A few thoughts on the deadpan aesthetic. The deadpan aesthetic takes away the connotation from the photographer, it stops them...

Dave Macey
Mar 3, 20164 min read


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Back in September of last year a few of us from the Uni went to London to view some exhibitions. One of the exhibitions we visited was...

Dave Macey
Feb 26, 20162 min read


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Recently I’ve been shooting Little Stone Wood colour 5x4 film. Initially I was reluctant to use 5x4 film for a couple of reasons. The...

Dave Macey
Feb 25, 20163 min read


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I’m continuing to look at loneliness and solitude. It occurs to me that there is a world of difference between loneliness and solitude. ...

Dave Macey
Feb 20, 20163 min read
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I went back over to Little Stone Wood on Wednesday 17th February and did some more filming. It now feels that I am watching for breaks...

Dave Macey
Feb 20, 20162 min read


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Recently I did some filming in Little Stone Wood. I think film will definitely form part of the project as it can be shot in a deadpan...

Dave Macey
Feb 15, 20162 min read


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Recently I’ve been looking at videos on YouTube of people filming in forests. There seems to be a trend where people film the same scene...

Dave Macey
Feb 15, 20161 min read


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I must admit I didn't realise that it has been a couple of weeks since my last update. I’ve been concentrating on the dissertation and...

Dave Macey
Feb 14, 20165 min read


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I haven’t managed to get back into the forest since the tutorial, I was hoping to get in there this week, but storm force winds and...

Dave Macey
Jan 31, 20163 min read


MPP Research
Yesterday I had a tutorial about my progress with Littlestone Wood and of how to progress further with the project. The deadpan aesthetic...

Dave Macey
Jan 27, 20162 min read


MPP Research
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...

Dave Macey
Jan 7, 20163 min read


MPP History
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...

Dave Macey
Jan 7, 20163 min read


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

Dave Macey
Jan 5, 20162 min read


MPP History
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...

Dave Macey
Jan 4, 20163 min read
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