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We are now heading into the second term of my MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the LCC and it’s been an interesting year. Starting the degree was daunting for me, especially working with some highly respected lecturers. The art of telling a story using images isn’t as easy as you’d think.

The first series of assignments took me out of that comfort zone and really made me get my act into gear. With the final results for last terms assignments in, it was good to see what i’d been doing wrong and what i’d been doing right. I’ve never been one to write essays, I guess it takes a different person to be able to write an academic paper, especially when you haven’t done one in nearly ten years. As expected, I didn’t do as well as i’d like to have on the written essay. One of the comments was about it not being academic in approach, which to be fair wasn’t far from the truth.

I will, however, endeavor to write a better academic paper. It would be great to have a lesson on the do’s & don’ts when writing academic papers as this was a big weakness for me.

One the documentary front, I presented the People of Durban project and thankfully John really enjoyed it. I received some important feedback and will act upon that over the next couple of weeks.

The course has really made me concentrate on telling a better story using a smaller amount of images. I feel my editing strength has grown immensely, thanks to the help of John and Homer. From a weakness point of view, I still have so much more to learn about producing interesting documentary work, thankfully the lectures from Paul and John are helping, as are the guest lecturers. Also learning what makes a good documentary from a commercial point of view would be helpful.

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