Our guest lecturer was artist and lecturer Rebecca Najdowski. Her talk was really inspiring because she introduced us to a lot of different artists and processes of photography that I hadn’t previously encountered, for example the labour intensive work of John Chiara. This really relates to the article by Sean O’Hagan that brought forward the idea that photography is ‘made’ and not ‘taken.’ Anna Atkin’s botanical photographs was also really interesting and beautiful. These methods are definitely things I’m interested in exploring further.

Photography by John Chiara. Source.

A Lumen print. Source.