Dave MaceyMA                     Photographer

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...

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

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...

I’ve just been reading Propaganda: Power and Persuasion by David Welch and concentrating on chapter 5 Know Your Enemy, case studies in...

Things have changed again! Since my last post I have been thinking about producing 10 pages of the manifesto as my final submission and...

Yesterday I had a tutorial with my tutor about my recent work on the artefact, of which the latest images are below. I showed the...

I found what could be a bit of a little gem in the Canterbury Library, Photomontage by Dawn Ades. In this book she covers the history of...

Whilst searching the internet for examples and articles of photomontage I came across this article by the University of Washington. ...

I’ve just finished reversing the wording on the document and underlying the text that I want to use. The text that highlighted nearly...

Today I have mainly been finding and editing photographs for the manifesto and I’ve also been reading the book Utopia written by Thomas...

Last week I had a tutorial with my tutor, mainly to talk about the feedback I had received earlier and also the essay. The main points we...

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...