I was fortunate to be able to fit in a lot of reading  this year and this was one of the books that  absorbed me. It was one I wanted to read early on because it grabbed my attention. I had dipped into some others – Lighting, The Photographer’s Eye etc., but this is the one that I was keen to really delve into. Partly, because I had worked with Anna Fox many years ago and partly, because it appealed to the researcher in me.

I wanted to know how and why they were combining research and photography. When I read the introduction it made me wonder what sort of photographer they had in mind as the readership. As someone who has worked in the subsidised arts sector and done postgraduate research it made perfect sense to me but I wondered if it would be the same for everyone.

I liked the idea of having a project ‘framework’ and have been experimenting with the the framework for my own work ever since. Even simple things like deciding on a title can have a big impact on the image.

A body of photographic work is developed through knowledge gained in exploring the medium. (Fox & Caruana, 2012: 6)

References:

Fox, A., & Caruana, N. (2012). Behind the Image: Research in photography. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing SA.