Metaphor magazine has gone to print! Our first year students learn to design and produce a magazine in their Photo Practice module. We talk about lots of digital applications and different ways to get your …
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photography, education, and research
Metaphor magazine has gone to print! Our first year students learn to design and produce a magazine in their Photo Practice module. We talk about lots of digital applications and different ways to get your …
Continue reading »Plastic is the junk to which our economy is addicted. Grocery stores want to wrap every head of broccoli in plastic film because it keeps them looking fresh for a few days longer. All all …
Continue reading »Why 3rd level education should be like Montessori school (…and why the Leaving Cert programme is just wrong) Tim Kovar timothy.kovar@dit.ie January 2018 Right now, tens of thousands of 2nd level students can …
Continue reading »Hands up everyone who thinks a BA degree in photography is one of the most useless degrees a person can acquire? I’m writing to convince you (and government funders) otherwise, with a few careful observations. …
Continue reading »Essential Concepts in Photography Here are a few topics I consider significant when working towards professionalism in photography. I know many photographers who never studied formally, and plenty of graduates who work in photography. …
Continue reading »Photography Year 1 Topic 1 What do we mean when we talk about ‘making’ images? It is the difference between taking ‘snapshots’ and making photographs carefully. A ‘snapshot’ is really just to capture a …
Continue reading »What is a Picture Story? Tim Kovar October 2016 (updated 9/17) Why do we use images to convey a story, when words can be so much more specific and precise? People mis-interpret images all …
Continue reading »Around the age of 12 I started taking pictures with my dad’s Canon that he bought in Japan in the 1950s. I still have that camera. I started working in photography in 1988. I got …
Continue reading »After ten years of building and patching my old website, it was long past time to tear it down and start again. So here I go, and we’ll see what comes of it.
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