We were really looking forward to the first week of the Photography, Art and Architecture class at Saint Martin’s College. I started messing around with the LCA since I received it as a Christmas present years ago and I was lucky enough to have sold some of my photos, but I didn’t get serious about photography until I bought my first DSLR six months ago.
I thought joining a photography class would be an obvious thing to do but I didn’t want to spend £250 on a class about the technical details - the title of this class caught my eye. I had never taken much interest in photographing architecture before. I migth have taken photos of buildings back in Hong Kong, but they were never the focus.
It turned out that the lecturer, Diego Ferrari (I am not making this up!), is quite an interesting guy. An artist who is full of energy and enthusiasm. He seems to be doing really well, in terms of getting commissions and his work published. A half Italian, half Spainish, Argentina-born artist with a passion about arts and using photography as a medium to show a sense of space - it pretty much sums up the theme of this class.
We spend half of the day-long session looking at other artists and photographers’ work and the rest on practical work. We had to take pictures of the Saint Martin’s building in Holborn, which was not an easy task as the buiding is quite uninspiring and with the entire class (15 people) trying to capture every corner and looking for unusal angles for unique pictures - it was almost impossible.
I can’t wait for next week when we will be taking photos of the National Theatre on the southbank.