Degree Show

I have been considering what I shall create for my degree show for some time, it is in the back of my mind from day one. All i know is that I will make images within the genre of sport. After a 1 to 1 with my tutor I have to start editing down my research to create a pack. I have a few photographers to look at and some more photographs to take in order to be ready for the assessment..... I will be working with an array of images taken at various sporting events at the university. I am part of the universities swim team who I have regularly photographed over the last three years. Furthermore I produced a book in my second year which explored what makes a team and I intend to develop the ideas I considered in my research for it. I can develop my photographic skills and take into account sport in a wider context considering sport as spectacle and photography as art. As I have explored other ideas for my degree show, I have come to this idea quite late but have researched into a wide range of photographers who have covered sport..... to be continued

Brian Griffin

Perhaps the name is more familiar to some as a character in Family Guy but he is also one of the photographers that has been commissioned as an Olympic photographer. The NPG will commission other high-profile and emerging photographers each year before the Olympics. Each subsequent phase of the Project will be displayed at the gallery in the summers of 2010, 2011 and 2012. The final display in summer 2012 will include a larger retrospective of all the commissioned work. The NPG has partnered with British Telecom to create a collection of 100 photographic portraits of ‘the people around the UK, both high-profile and those behind the scenes, who collectively are making the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games happen,’ says the gallery. (http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=870603)