home || about the course | current MA students | MA graduates | MA shows || facilities | staff | links | how to apply | contact us
	MA graduates: carol harvey	ines azagra  val bogan  megan calver  sue coulson  elena dady  susie david  gail flockhart  carol harvey •elizabeth lancaster-thomas  fereshte moosavi  patricia parker  amy shelton  ruth shorrock  nic thompson•
	At the point of exposing the negative the photographer has generally considered his/her subject-matter and mechanical options given by the equipment and consciously or unconsciously made an interpretation of the world as he/she sees it. The resulting object, an actual photograph, a piece of paper interpreting the light reflected onto the negative, is surprisingly not perceived as object but as a representation of the original object itself. Our reading of a photograph can be seen as governed by a set of language codes, representing an ideology of our own particular culture and history and the influence of these on our perception. '… we perceive the image as a message referred to as a given code, but this is the normal perceptive code which presides over our every act of cognition. However, the iconic sign reproduces the conditions of perception, but only some of them: here we are then faced with the problem of a new transcription and selection.' The photograph entices us due to recognition, a recognition of other and therefore of self. 'An analogous imaginary investiture of the real constitutes an early important moment in the construction of the self, that of the ‘mirror stage’ in the formation of the human being…' Burgin.V, 1982 Thinking photography. www.carolharvey.co.uk
		Expectations (2008)
	MA Fine Art at the  University of Plymouth  © 2010	MAfineartplymouth.co.uk