Critical Research Journal...

I love mind maps and have used them successfully for over twenty years. I have found them a useful way of writing notes for academic work,...

George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher who became the Bishop of Cloyne. He believes that anything that stops being observed ceases to...

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was something of an intellectual celebrity. He was born in Algiers and denied a place at the local school because he was...

Lockdown has affected us all in different ways, and my friend Claire said that she had enjoyed gazing at photographs of wild animals. So I thought I...

“We just existed.” Florence Thompson said. “We survived, let’s put it that way.” (Dorothea Lange’s notes 1936). These were the words of Florence...

I had been hoping for some mist on the Loch for some months and had trodden the path each morning to see if weather conditions had conspired to...

As part of my preparation for starting my PhD in October, my supervisor suggested I have a look at Linda Candy’s CCS Report – Practice Based...

I like to use my own images as headers for each blog post and in searching for one for my last blog I was reminded of an image that was on the...

“Without the dark, we cannot see the light. Without the silence, we cannot hear the music. Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot feel...

I have some very exciting news! From October I shall be pursuing my academic studies and developing my photographic practice towards a PhD in...

I continue to journey through my extensive archives of photographs to share my Image of the Week.  During a decluttering exercise recently, I came...

It was suggested to me a while ago that I might find autoethnography an interesting research approach and method - at the time I wrote a short post...

Over the past few weeks and months of lockdown, I have been using the time to familiarise and re-familiarise myself with some of the thinking of...

In my series of posts Photography – a Philosophical Dimension I am writing about some of the most famous and influential thinkers of modern times...

A C Grayling begins his exposition of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) in The History of Modern Philosophy by arguing that there are three great figures in...

Those of you familiar with my blog posts will know that I have been choosing and writing about one of my own images that I am proud of.  During...

A few weeks ago I focused on some images I had taken in India in January 2015.  Our mission had been to see tigers - it was not to be.  However, we...

I was reminded recently of a photographer that I had written about during my MA – Minor White. The reason for the recollection was that I came...