glittergrill
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Can anyone make a post for MFA programs in Europe and UK etc. with excellant funding and scholarship?
(others with non prerequisite Fullbright, DAAD, Erasmus, and not for NFP countries)
@Jun12 some schools in Scandinavia are free of tuition — Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway and Aalto University in Finland to name a few.
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My top school is Aalto University (TaiK). I also applied to Glasgow, SAIC, RISD, CalArts, MICA, and SVA. Excited to see what the season holds.
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It's that time, applications are in!
This is a place for MFA Photo applicants to post your results as you receive interview requests, rejections, and acceptances throughout the next couple months.
Cheers!
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I can't say that I care for the first two series very much; although, Last Thoughts Before Falling Asleep grabs me by the pure theatricality of it. It reminded me of Pina Bausch's film The Complaint of an Empress in terms of imagery, tone and vignette structure. On the other hand, I feel like the psychological construct of your work is lacking. There is no underlying dramaturgy to tie things together. I neither understand your motivations nor your obsessions, which is perhaps why (and please correct me if I'm wrong) michaelwebster has a problem with the "overt symbolic icons". The images show us a glint of genius but fall apart because we don't understand where the drama is coming from. You need to assert yourself as the director or the metteur en scène.
Keeping It Together is the strongest image; however, and I'm being severe in order to make a point about directing, the boats in the background don't match the nostalgic character I feel overall. Andrei Tarkovsky once cleared an entire meadow of it's spring blossoms because the cheerfulness of the flowers would have interrupted the desolation in the story. I'm curious as to how much shots you take during a shoot. Are you an economical photographer or do you shoot rolls and rolls?
I would also suggest picking one of the schools on your list as your top choice and dropping the rest in favor of some fallback schools. The programs you chose are very competitive and I think the risk of total disappointment is too high.
Wow, thanks. This is some of the best feedback I've gotten in a while... and I'm excited to watch that film.
In response to your question on how many shots I take—only a few. Every time I take more than a few shots I find myself spending so much time trying to pick the "best one" (which just seems silly / time consuming). All of the images start out as sketches so when it's time to do the shoot I know exactly what I want and it only takes a minute to get it.
I know the schools I'm applying to are highly competitive, but if I'm going to pursue an MFA, those are the only schools I'm interested in. I know that absolute rejection is a high possibility but I'm willing to take that risk.
Thanks again for the feedback, I need to sit with it for a little while.
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Hey guys - any constructive feedback on my work would be great.
www.shannonpartrick.com
Applying to the following for MFA Photography:
Cal Arts
RISD
SAIC
Helsinki University of Art and Design (Finland)
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