Research and Development

Einar Anbjorn Hansen is a twenty-two-year-old photographer from Norway. He also has Autism, which gives him difficulty in dealing with his day to day life. For him, landscape photography is a way to escape the stress caused from his everyday environment. ‘Nature makes me relax and I’ve found this to be the best medicine for my autism.’ (E, Hansen 02/12/2018 Interview with Christian Hoiberg). He struggled in school through bullying as his teachers had little or no understanding of his condition or how it affected him. In 2008 his mother bought his first camera, a Canon PowerShot A580, which started his journey as a photographer. Hansen started out just documenting his day to day life before figuring out he wanted to be a nature photographer. His mother encouraged him to pursue this and helped him to upgrade his camera equipment, driving him around, so he could pursue his photography. As Hansen explains in an interview with Christian Hoiberg, ‘Being in nature gives me a different ty...

I have been thinking about how I want to display my work for the Final Major Project and the Free Range exhibition. My original idea was to do a mutoscope so I looked at how they worked and whether it is a possible display method for my work. I have also looked at Olive Edis and her developmebt of the diascope which was a way of displaying images.  Olive Edis was a photographer who lived 1876 - 1955, she received her first camera from her sister in 1900. Five years later she opened her studio on Church Street, Sheringham. Five years after that her photography was appearing in national newspapers. She was one of the first women to use the autochrome process and she went on to develop her own autochrome viewer known as a diascope which she patented. Olive Edis was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum in 1919 as the only women photographer to document the war work of the women's services. Examples of her work in the Imperial War Museum are held also by the National Media Museum an...

Landscape photography is one of the largest genres of photography, it has many sub genres such as urban, rural and documentary. Landscape photography can be used in a multitude of ways; environmental, political, documentary, and as art. Landscape images have been popular even before the invention of photography, when Daguerre (along with Fox Talbot, Niepce and Bayard) invented the Diorama. This allowed Parisian gentlemen to see landscapes such as the Swiss Alps without travelling to the location. These were popular until the invention of the Daguerrotype which allowed people to carry around the image. There are well known landscape photographers who have different styles and pursue different avenues of landscape photography. Some photographers eschew the use of politics when it comes to their work. Others use their work to raise awareness of issues around environmental concerns or to support a cause. The rest of the photographers fall somewhere in the middle. The uses of landscape pho...

Wellbeing is a term used to describe a person's state of health, happiness and comfort. Wellbeing is a broader concept than momentary happiness, it is longer term consideration including satisfaction of life, sense of purpose and how in control of life people feel that they are. Wellbeing is something to strive towards. Wellbeing is deemed important so it is included along with health and economy when measuring national wellbeing. New Economics definition of wellbeing is; 'Wellbeing can be understood as how people feel and how they function, both on a personal and a social level, and how they evaluate their lives as a whole.' (Mental Health, 2015) . Wellbeing is difficult to nail down factors of, in regards to people's day to day lives, as well as me a suring and supporting it. People with mental health issues can have their wellbeing supported. This helps avoid reliance on the symptoms of the illness used by more traditional mental health services. These services ...

There has always been dispute surrounding the cause of autism and the signs of the condition. Before the term Autism was used, it was considered to be signs of schizophrenia until 1911 when Eugene Bleuler a psychiatrist from Switzerland first coined the term to describe a group of symptoms which used to be considered to be symptoms of schizophrenia. This led to a variety of theorised causes and treatments which weren’t as effective as more modern behavioural therapies are with better understanding of autism. In 1943 Kanner publishes his characterisation of Autism as a social and emotional disorder in children. This was the main definition of the condition until Hans Asperger developed his version of autism a year later. It was in 1987 when autism was expanded in DSM including the medical diagnostic criteria which is used to diagnose autism up till this day. It was in 2013 when the different forms of autism were combined as one condition, previously they were classified as distinctly d...

Richard Walker is a local photographer who shoots landscapes and architecture. He has had work shown in the Practical Photography magazine. He has a Facebook page for his work and a Twitter account which he uses effectively to keep his audience up to date with each of his projects. I have seen his work online and his work is composed very well. He has shot the occasional wildlife shot but he doesn't go out with the intention of shooting them. He has managed to divide his time effectively between work and his photographic practice. His landscape photography shows great use of colour and usually has a line that guides the viewers eye around the image. He has been able to visit different parts of Britain including Dartmoor and the Lake District. He often goes on shoots with other photographers which has included Joe Cornish. I enjoy his landscape work immensely and some of his architectural photography is very pleasing to the eye in terms of colour and lines within its very well thoug...

For my second shoot I arranged to go back to Dartmoor with Richard Walker again. After the first shoot we both had an idea of my mobility problems. He picked somewhere easier for me to get to. The place he picked was a great location as there were different elements that I was able to photograph. We went to the location for a sunset shoot, we had plenty of time to get set up before the light started to change. I hadn't decided what style of photography would be best for my  project, so I took a lot of photos in different styles to experiment with which images would fit my idea. I am very happy with how the shoot went and the images I took. I didn't look at them until a couple of days later, this was so I could look at them with fresh eyes.  Looking at the images I have taken, I could instantly see one that needed no editing and some others that needed minimal editing, in my eyes. I edited the ones that were the best ones from the shoot. I have been bri...

At the start of the project, I knew that I would be shooting up on Dartmoor. I needed to arrange how I would be getting there and where on Dartmoor I should shoot. I remembered that I had been introduced to a photographer who shoots frequently on Dartmoor. The photographer is called Richard Walker. He is a Landscape and Architectural photographer. He was more than happy to take me up on Dartmoor and show me some of the better places to shoot on there. I arranged on Facebook Messenger to go on a sunrise shoot with him. The place where we went was very difficult for me to traverse as it was beyond my physical capabilities due to my Hypermobility. We made it most of the way that he had planned for us but ultimately the shoot at the location was a bust as the cloud cover was too heavy to allow the sunlight to come through. With the rain that was closing in he was determined to give me the chance to shoot wildlife and drove me to a location where he knew there would be Dartmoor cattle, not ...