FH4S15 - Defining Practice 01 Sep 2021 - 31 Aug 2027 | Version 1

Associated Module Information

Module Code: FH4S15
Module Title: Defining Practice
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Fashion, Marketing and Photography
Faculty Sub Group: Photography
Module Leader: Lisa Barnard
Module Team: Mark Durden, David Barnes, Steven Wright
First Intended Intake: SEP 2021 Final Year of Intake: 0001
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 7
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes:
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Document Version Information

Version 1
Valid From 01 Sep 2021
Valid To 31 Aug 2027

Module Aims

1. To enable students to generate and define concepts, proposals, and solutions in response to self-initiated documentary practices

2.To engage with current debate, research and to contextualise self-directed practice within the areas of Documentary Photography in preparation for undertaking negotiated projects with communities, individuals, groups and external organisations.

Content Summary

Having reviewed their practice, students are now required to start the process of defining their practice with a focus on the production of a standalone or the continuation of a long-term project. The module will also focus on the skills required to collaborate and engage, ethically in communities and the legal and ethical implications of creating such work.

This module will focus on the development of students’ practice and define its position within the field of documentary studies. Students will inform and contextualise their practice through appropriate research and critically evaluate process and outcomes.

During the module students will be engaged in the following:

1.Negotiating, proposing, developing and contextualising, a documentary photography, practical project.

2.Project planning, management, and evaluation as an integral part of process.

3.Undertaking different forms of self-directed learning employing both divergent and convergent investigation, speculative enquiry, visualisation, and creation.

4.Exploring and adapting diverse approaches to media and processes indicative of the field of documentary practices.

5.Researching and developing ideas, objects and events in order to successfully propose and contextualise projects.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 9
Seminar 19
Tutorial 4
Independent Study 148
Directed Study 20
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Define and categorise practice, developing appropriate methodologies that exercise critical awareness.
LO2 Independently and ethically, negotiate and plan a technically proficient portfolio that synthesize research and practice.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Visual Journal 1 Students will create a visual and written Development Folder where they contextualise the project they are defining. The Development Folder should include visual, theoretical, historical, and political influences, a contextual statement and an outline of the planning that is required to make the project happen. 0 1800 30 No 40
Asynchronous Assessment Portfolio 1 Students are asked to continue or develop a new photographic project that can be either a resolved body of work or a continuation of a major project. 0 N/A 70 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Visual Journal 1
Portfolio 1

Reading List

Alexander, J.A.P. (2015) Perspectives on Place: Theory and Practice in Landscape Photography. London: Bloomsbury. - eBook I/S
Azoulay, A. (2012), Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography, Verso, London. eBook I/S
Azoulay, A. (2019), Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism Paperback, Verso, London. eBook I/S
Campt, T. (2017) Listening to Images Paperback, Duke University Press. - eBook I/S
Emerling, J. (2012). Photography : history and theory. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, Ny: Routledge. EBook I/S
Hodkinson, P. (2017). Media, culture and society : an introduction. 2nd ed. London: Sage Publications Ltd. eBook I/S
Larsen, J. and Sandbye, M. (eds.) 2014, Digital Snaps: The New Face of Photography. IB Tauris, London. eBook I/S
Linfield, S. 2012 The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence, University of Chicago Press eBook I/S
Ritchin, F. 2013, Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary and the Citizen, Norton, U.S.A. eBook I/S
Rubinstein, D. 2020 Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age, Routledge eBook I/S
Smith and Sliwinski, (eds.) 2017, Photography and the Optical Unconscious, Duke University Press.
Solnit, R. 2004 River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Paperback – Illustrated, 2 Mar. 2004 Penguin eBook I/S
Sontag, S., 1977, On Photography, Harmondsworth, ebook
Wells, L. (ed.) Photography: A Critical Introduction, London, 2009. eBook I/S
West Brett, D. and Lusty, N (eds) Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images eBook I/S