Browse Elizabeth Woodger’s OCA Photography graduate case study padlet. 

Add a short note to your learning log with one or two points that may have relevance to your own practice and project development.

I have been fascinated by the range of activity from the different alumni featured in the Case Studies section of the course notes. Elizabeth Woodger is no different. The depth and wide range of her interests from visual and contextual research to her wider interests outwith the OCA and engagement with other courses such as in Geology and in the folding of photographs to form paper structures as well as all the external engagements made such as Photopocene podcast, yearbook, portfolio review, AOP Student Awards, commissioned essays and more all show the huge depth and range of interests which Woodger developing.

In my own work am fascinated by idea of folded works. I took images of a couple of different examples of such ways of displaying work I found at an exhibition for the Scottish Landscape Awards held at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh.

Although my initial interest was in how these works looked and were presented, when I was on my artist’s residency I took time to do some reseach and was reading “Slow Looking: The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation” by Shari Tishman. This work made me reassess the assumptions I had made about the presentatyion of works folded and bound in different ways. I thought of another reason for this binding other than looking nice. These slow down the interaction with the audience, stopping the photograph being seen so quickly before moving on to look at the next piece.