QUEEN OF STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
-Lisette Model-
Lisette Model was an Austrian born - American street photographer who worked through the 1900. She is most know for her social realism photography capturing everyday people around New York City. She was captivated by the energy which flooded New York in the 1900, especially that of the high societys. Model has two series which are most famous, her serious called 'Reflections' and a series called 'Running Legs', which both embraced the city life. Her 'Reflections' was based on window reflections of people around her, whether they were in front of the window browing or if they were inside a shop and had an unusual reflection to the angle she was standing at. Model experimented with graphic and spatial play to the scrutiny of urban life. The same was with her 'Running Legs', it focused on the rush and speed of peoples everyday life and urban life as a whole. Her photographs were taken on a 35mm, black and white. Her images are candid and captured, there's a lot of movement and an ideal of frenzy.
RUNNING LEGS
Forty Second Street, New York, Circa 1940-41. The lower Eastside; is characteristically direct and forthright.
The photos were taken at a low angle (ankle height) and of the busy activity going on in New York. Possibly capturing rush hour or Lunch. What i like most about this collection is that she is capturing people 'walking' and the movement but from a different angle and not one that is traditional. Theres movement from both man made objects and also the movement of the natural function of the human body. Contrasting movements. There is also a contrast in movement in the second picture as theres people walking at all different pastes and in the centre of the photograph there is a gentleman who is stood still which I think makes the photograph. I also like being on ground level and being able to see the shadows which from all the rush would not even have been noticed or the beauty of them appreciated.
The photos were taken at a low angle (ankle height) and of the busy activity going on in New York. Possibly capturing rush hour or Lunch. What i like most about this collection is that she is capturing people 'walking' and the movement but from a different angle and not one that is traditional. Theres movement from both man made objects and also the movement of the natural function of the human body. Contrasting movements. There is also a contrast in movement in the second picture as theres people walking at all different pastes and in the centre of the photograph there is a gentleman who is stood still which I think makes the photograph. I also like being on ground level and being able to see the shadows which from all the rush would not even have been noticed or the beauty of them appreciated.
RESPONSE TO 'RUNNING LEGS'
To respond to Lisette's 'Running legs' i wanted to photograph in a place where it was busy and where there was a lot of action. I decided to go to borough market near London bridge station. When taking these photographs i was thinking about the threshold concept of 'chance', this is because when i was taking photographs i was not checking them. Instead i held the camera hip height and took photos of people walking, at an angle which would capture only their legs/feet instead of the whole body. I originally photographed the photos in colour but then edited them in photoshop to black and white. I wanted for there to be a lot of grey rather than just black and white because the ground the grey and i wanted to enhance that. I also wanted any shadows to stand out against any light(ish) grey.
REFLECTIONS
NYC, 1940-41
Lisette's reflections are photographs of a man reflection in shop windows. The photographs are extremely detailed because there are all the aspects from inside the shop which make up all the details in the background. In the foreground however there are also reflections from the man Lisette is photographing and also from the reflections of the outside world as a whole. The photograph on the left side is the reflection in a shop window where the advertisement blocks out the inside of the shop, this allows the reflections to stand out more, of the man and of the outside world.
Lisette's reflections are photographs of a man reflection in shop windows. The photographs are extremely detailed because there are all the aspects from inside the shop which make up all the details in the background. In the foreground however there are also reflections from the man Lisette is photographing and also from the reflections of the outside world as a whole. The photograph on the left side is the reflection in a shop window where the advertisement blocks out the inside of the shop, this allows the reflections to stand out more, of the man and of the outside world.
REPONSE TO 'REFLECTIONS'
I found this response quite difficult, this is because i was struggling to find a good reflection of someone who was looking into a shop window. Instead i decided to try something slightly different. I photographed, looking into a glass public space, where there were people on the other side of the class but made sure it was i was at a position where there was a reflection of the outside world. Overall the outcome of this response to 'Reflections' came out really well because there is activity of people but also loads of reflections of what was facing the glass. I also like that there is a bit more action going on with the capturing of people on the other side. |
CANDID - IN MOTION WORK
Photographs of people socialising or relaxing. Capturing what people enjoy to do in their free time, whilst also capturing some senses of emotions and also possibly capturing peoples secrets. These photograph are capturing people 'off guard'.
RESPONSE TO LISETTE'S 'CANDIDS'
To respond to Lisette's candid photography, i photographed the things that people were doing in borough market. I did not want to capture the movement but the people who were still and seemed comfortable in what they were doing, whether they were sitting or standing, talking to one another. I then walked to the actual London bridge, which is were i photographed the man holding his child. They remained there for a while and still so i decided to photograph them because to me it shows how tiring walking around can be. In the bottom left photograph, i wanted to capture the lack of activity people were doing and just sitting on their phones which i thought also looked interesting with the reflection of the building because it represents how people have all these places and things to look at but choose to look at their phones. In the bottom right photograph i took this, capturing people socialising. |
THE GIRL CHEWING GUM
-John Smith's short film-
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The short film is John Smith positioning his camera in one spot, throughout the whole film and recording in the same direction. He films a road where it goes from busy to quiet and quiet to busy. Capturing all the people crossing over and going in all different directions. As well as cards and birds but the narrator behind the camera is directing them all. The short film was inspired by a scene in François Truffaut 1973 'Day for Night' film, where he directed the actors. |
WALKING
-WALKING HOME TO WORK AND WORK TO HOME-
Walking from home to work and from work to home.
Iphone Camera
digital photographs edited black and white.
Iphone Camera
digital photographs edited black and white.
I took these photographs on my journey to work. I went through greenwich market as I wanted to start my project in an area local to me and somewhere i was comfortable with before i branched out. I wanted to capture people, scenes and objects. When taking the photographs i kept in mind that I was going to edit them black and white because I felt inspired by the photographer above who all used black and white photography. The candid shots of people I took remind me slightly of loneliness as so did the scene images, for example the hundreds of plants have been left alone, the house sits alone and the small door sits alone. Although isolated they give off calmness and and ideal of peace. I prefer them black and white to colour because the shadows are enhanced and so are the small details, it also took away the rainy effect my iPhone camera left on the coloured version the photographs which lowered their quality. I walk this journey every week and I am always looking for something new to photograph and this led me through a new root where I discovered the garage and drains. I did also include some photographs which I took at the 'Tate modern' of people, I wanted to capture some people I'm motion and moving around.
-CONCEPTUAL WALKING-
SOPHIE CALLE
Sophie Calle (born: 1953), is a French photographer, installation artist and conceptual artist. A lot of her work depicts human identity, vulnerability and intimacy. Her work exposes her "detective-like" ability to follow strangers and in a way investigate their private life she uses black and white film to capture her subjects as well as the landscapes they choice to be in because of their unique journeys. Her name became interesting when in 1979, she followed a man who she had met once at a party and followed him to Venice from Paris. Without him knowing at all. She followed him around the city and photographed him and the things in which he was doing. She was invading his personal life but finding something out for herself in a way.
"Calle's first artistic work was The Sleepers (Les Dormeurs), a project in which she invited passers-by to occupy her bed.[11] Some were friends, or friends of friends, and some were strangers to her. She served them food and photographed them every hour."
"Angelique Chrisafis, writing in The Guardian, called her "the Marcel Duchamp of emotional dirty laundry"
"Calle's first artistic work was The Sleepers (Les Dormeurs), a project in which she invited passers-by to occupy her bed.[11] Some were friends, or friends of friends, and some were strangers to her. She served them food and photographed them every hour."
"Angelique Chrisafis, writing in The Guardian, called her "the Marcel Duchamp of emotional dirty laundry"
RESPONSE TO SOPHIE CALLE
In response to Sophie Calle I took a trip to London Bridge and chose someone at the station (the start of my journey) to follow. The idea behind following a stranger is taking someone else's journey or taking a journey I would not necessarily take myself. I started off at the overground station in Hither Green and chose a girl who looked roughly my age but the reason I chose her was because of her furry, teddy bear-like jumper which i knew would stand out in a crowed area and also I wouldn't be able to loose her so easily. I wanted to not be obvious so I did not photograph her every move because I felt like she would become suspicious so I took a photograph at each point I thought was key or a turn in her journey.
The start of the journey: Waiting at the train station on her phone quite oblivious.
A new destination: She got off at London Bridge and walked out towards the market area.
Here I wanted to capture her at an angle which was different than just photographing her from right behind.
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Setting off: Starting her journey (again) and getting the train
She then walked around the market as if she was looking for someone, this was a Saturday and it was extremely busy. I was worried at this point I was going to loose her.
This was the point where I stopped
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-WALKING TO JAY'S-
Here I wanted to experiment with using 35mm coloured film. I knew I wanted to use film throughout component one I just wanted to wait for the right day. I chose to walk to my friends house only down the road, so it was a small walk and i wanted to see if i could fill up the remainder of the 26 shots left in the camera from previous. I did not have a theme or really an idea of what i was going to photograph apart from objects i find or anything i thought would come out nice once the film was developed. Overall i love these photographers, the film give them an old style look which separates them from the modern world. Theres also a lot of surface area, for example the one in the centre of the road and the photo of just the wall. The face allows each subject to be focused on. The photographs also depict what odd/random objects you can see/find our your walks and journeys.
I also wanted to focus on simplicity but detail. Not too many subjects but subjects where there was a lot to look at and subjects which held a lot of detail. Whilst trying to focus on restricting myself to only photographing maximum three subjects i found a lot of surreal aspects. On my walk there were many familiar objects which were not in their natural habits for example, the first photo above of the bath being outside. These 'rubbish' materials become my founded treasures and made my walk/photo more interesting.
I also wanted to focus on simplicity but detail. Not too many subjects but subjects where there was a lot to look at and subjects which held a lot of detail. Whilst trying to focus on restricting myself to only photographing maximum three subjects i found a lot of surreal aspects. On my walk there were many familiar objects which were not in their natural habits for example, the first photo above of the bath being outside. These 'rubbish' materials become my founded treasures and made my walk/photo more interesting.
This photograph was taken when walking through South Bermondsey of one of the block housing through one of the estates. The light exposure lightens up the image and makes it look more warm then how it did in real life. I am not sure what happened to the top of the image as io thought it would capture the whole building but it did not which is interesting. Its as if there was too much light hitting the top of the shutter and it just made that part back but theres a flight light reflection which is interesting and makes the image. |
This photograph is my favourite out of the whole 26 shots. This is because of how the building fades/submerges into the fog. despite the fog there is a sharp glimpse of light coming from the building window which looks almost supernatural. All focus is n the centre but then in the foreground there is a lamppost which is all black. This photograph doesn't give off much (some criticism I have got from friends) but looking at it the light seems so significant, a sign of hope almost. |
-Daido Moriyama-
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"Moriyama's style is synonymous with that of Provoke magazine, which he was involved with in 1969,[3] namely 'are, bure, bokeh', translated as 'grainy / rough, blurry, and out-of-focus'.[4] Known mostly for his work in black and white, his images often use high contrast and tilted horizons in order to convey the fragmentary nature of modern life." This video depicts the photography life of 'provoke' photographer Daido Moryiama. The video consists of following him, walking around the atmospheric Shinjuku neighbourhood in Tokyo. He uses a small compact camera where he shoots anything that interests him on his walk. He photographs from his imagination and from things he had seen as a child. |
His photographs are in black and white. There is a lot of movement in some of his photographs due to the movement of his subjects our, the capture of the busy atmophere of the city. The photographs are grainy and high contrast, some can be really bright due to the light exposure whilst some are more dark and contain more greys and blacks. His photographs capture whats around him making sure that they are 'rough, blurry and out-of-focus'. His work captures his home city and the action of the city. The blurriness of the photographs represent rush or not being able to stand still but he does not forget to capture the people internal to the place he is shooting. The darkness of his photographs show what kind of environment it is, there are more blacks and greys than any white or light. It sets inquisitive but confusing emotions too.
"Today, when words have lost their material base—in other words, their reality—and seem suspended in mid-air, a photographer’s eye can capture fragments of reality that cannot be expressed in language as it is. He can submit those images as a document to be considered alongside language and ideology. This is why, brash as it may seem, Provoke has the subtitle, ‘provocative documents for thought.’
-- Manifesto of the Provoke Group by Kohi Taki, Takuma Nakahira, Takahiko Okada, Yutaka Takanashi, and Daido Moriyama"
"Today, when words have lost their material base—in other words, their reality—and seem suspended in mid-air, a photographer’s eye can capture fragments of reality that cannot be expressed in language as it is. He can submit those images as a document to be considered alongside language and ideology. This is why, brash as it may seem, Provoke has the subtitle, ‘provocative documents for thought.’
-- Manifesto of the Provoke Group by Kohi Taki, Takuma Nakahira, Takahiko Okada, Yutaka Takanashi, and Daido Moriyama"
-Daido Moriyama Response-
When responding to Daido Moriyama I wanted to focus on movement within each photograph. I photographed around school because it is where I am everyday and i wanted to present it in a speed like way. I edited them to a noir black and white, with more black than white to enhance shadows. I added a slight grain to m,ake the photographs look grainy and rough following Moriyama theme. I moved around when taking some of the photos to make them seem out-of-focus.
-CONCEPTUAL WALKING-
RICHARD LONG - WALKING IN A CIRCLE
His work is based on walks that he has made. He uses the mediums of photography, text and maps of the landscapes he has walked over. He takes a map of a place/area and draws a circle and then actually walks these circles in real life in the area.place he has chose. On these walks he photographs what he finds or what is interesting to him + plus what is sculpteral. He also collects pieces of objects he finds from these walks.
A lot of his work/photographs show distances and an on going path. The surface area in some of his photos are really significant theres always a focus on one subject within the large clear surface area in his photos, like above the rocks or lines.
-RESPONSE-
I wanted to do my response at school because it was a landscape i know well. I wanted to start my response by photographing objects which i knew were already in the landscape. I chose to photograph the school security box as it does look odd, in its placement, in the corner of the exit of the school. I also photographed a bike post which a lock attached to it as i thought the post and lines looked abstract and when i edited them to have a higher contrast of black to white and intensified the structure i thought the outcome was really interesting and detailed.
With this photograph i wanted to arrange them myself to just play around, originally i did try stacking them on top of one another but it looked too positioned and obvious so positioned them so that they where separate to on another and only went onto 3 slabs of the concrete ground.
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I then decided to collect bottle lid caps from around the school ground, i decided to only collect around 11-15 as i was going to reposition them. When i took these photos i just dropped them on the concrete ground (I collected most of them from the field and grass, so i wanted to place them onto a different surface in the landscape), and photographed them how they had naturally landed. I done this twice (the photo above and the first photo on top, on the left).
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I THEN TOOK THE BOTTLE CAPS INTO THE DARK ROOM TO EXPERIMENT WITH THEM:
I had collected a few other small pieces from the school ground such as a chain of paper clips, crunchy leaf and a small block, pen lid and so on and positioned them all onto photographic paper and created really simple (majority of them black) photograms.
This photogram is made up of two. I created one which half turned out to just be black which had a gradient going into the white a grey circles created by the bottle caps. I then made another one which was more detailed but tore/cut it up and positioned some of the parts on top of the previous one i created, this was the final outcome. I like this one because although there is solid black and white, there are still some different tones of grey, where i had not left them in the developer for long enough.
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This one is majority black and the grey tones are mostly within the bottle lid caps because i took the photogram out of the developer too quickly which manipulated the way it developed but did add some more detail. i placed two other parts from the cut up photogram on the top to add some more elements to the whole creation. I chose this photographs as well because of the white light reflection at the top which i thought was interesting and added contrast to the whole element.
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I wanted to take my experimenting further so i photo copied and printed out coloured copied of the photogram (I photocopied the photogram that i ripped up before i ripped it up). I then replaced the found bottle caps on top of the the print outs, to reposition the subject onto the made print, i also added the paper clip chain on top of where the paper clip chain was placed to add a 3D effect, which in my opinion did not really work how i wanted it to. Overall i thought these two pieces came out really well and showed me that i do not have to just document my walks, i can recreate photographs with objects i find on my walks.
This was my final outcome for this experiment. I cut out circles with a circle cutter on the orange print out and placed it over the blue print out. I then put the bottle lids on top to complete the whole piece. I wanted to incorporate the actual object with the photogram/print to show what can be created with such small, insignificant objects and to also emphasise that theres more that can be done with objects you would normally miss or not pay attention to on a walk. |
HAMISH FULTON
Is an artist who takes long walks and photographs what he sees on them. He does not collect anything from his walks (to display in galleries), instead he combines text-based descriptions with photographs (or other medias like illustration and cut vinyl) to communicate his walks with viewers.Fulton defines his walks as an experiance rather than sculptures. His photographs are black and white and capture mostly lanscapes and path ways in which he takes. The images are clear but sometimes slightly out of focus. He captures alot of define detail in his photographs, enhancing texture and small missed detail.
-MIND MAPPING DIFFERENT IDEAS FROM THE IDEA OF 'WALKING' -
-PYSCHOGEOGRAPHY-
'is an exploration of urban environments that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting". It has links to the Situationist International.'
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography)
GUY DUBORD - 'SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE'
Is a book written on a philosophical, Marxist critical theory by Guy Debord (1967). The spectacle is about the concept that the inverted image of society in which relations betweens humans and commodities gace supplanted relations between humans. "Psssive identification witht he spectacle supplants general activity". This was due to the growth in consumerism, which had caused the quality of life to become poor and with a lack of authencitity and appriacation that human perceptions are/have been affected.
To me the idea of this spectacle is an awareness that people have be dragged away from relatily and that to gain a fulfillment it has to be brought, instead of gaining emotional and physical fulfilment through nature and the world and that because of this, this is why people turn a blind eye to many things that are around them. That man-made objects are more significant and create more joy (with i think numbs the brain and does not edcuate the brain as well as those not man-made) than our world generally, the urban cities or the rural parts of the world. |
I found this video on YouTube to help with my understanding about the book and the whole idea behind the spectacle.
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Looking into this concept has given me the idea to focus on what is around me from the small to the large things and to not only focus of aspects of my walks which i am used to or know. I now also want to explore more natural walks, with a lot of nature but also urban areas to focus on the nature of people and what they do/are doing to fulfil something within them. Looking what people do in their spare time. I also want to look more into the conscious mind. What I see and whether or not I can show this in my photography. Find a deeper meaning to walking and also the mind, merging the two.
DANNY TREACY
Danny Treacy is a London photography who also uses a lot of sculpture in his work. The work I am going to be looking into is his collection called "CLEARINGS" - This collection is about him going to lands which are "bifunction, uncatagorised and blurred", e.g. The woods, he chose a place of such because it is a radical place which allows individuals to resist and push against society's constraints. What he had done in these woods is walk around the area and found/collected pieces of clothing that has been left there by people for as long as ever, it did not matter. The pieces he collected are described as "fallouts" because they are the things which had been left behind after human activity but he goes into a deeper meaning of human activity. He replaces these finding back into the landscape. To create awareness of what REALLY happens sometimes In these nature orientated places.
The darkness and use of black and white, represents the dark times of human beings who may chose a disfuctional place to exscape the real world of industralistation and consumerism because they find it hard to live up to it.
FRANCIS ALYS:
" an artist who has created a body of artwork and performance art that explores urbanity, spatial justice, and landscape based poetics."
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Al%C3%BFs ). His life is his work and he collaborates politics with poetic artworks. He mixes the worlds landscape with social-based experiments. When looking through Alys' work i wanted to focus on the works which focused on walking and how he turned walking into a practice and then an artwork. I can across three really interesting body works he had done involving walking, "SAMPLE II": Walking around London hitting a stick against metal objects/railings, each new metal piece making a new sound. "SOMETIMES MAKING SOMETHING LEADS TO NOTHING": Alys here took a huge block of ice and walked around Mexico City, pushing the ice until he had completely melted - which i thought was really fascinating. Then last "THE GREEN LINE": He walked the line which runs through the municipality of Jerusalem but holding an upside down pierced can of green paint, marking his walk.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Al%C3%BFs ). His life is his work and he collaborates politics with poetic artworks. He mixes the worlds landscape with social-based experiments. When looking through Alys' work i wanted to focus on the works which focused on walking and how he turned walking into a practice and then an artwork. I can across three really interesting body works he had done involving walking, "SAMPLE II": Walking around London hitting a stick against metal objects/railings, each new metal piece making a new sound. "SOMETIMES MAKING SOMETHING LEADS TO NOTHING": Alys here took a huge block of ice and walked around Mexico City, pushing the ice until he had completely melted - which i thought was really fascinating. Then last "THE GREEN LINE": He walked the line which runs through the municipality of Jerusalem but holding an upside down pierced can of green paint, marking his walk.
What i liked about the "SAMPLEII" is that he has used materials which everyone has access too and uses a technique which most people have done themselves as a child or in general, but Alys picks out that each new railing makes a new sound, something personally have never noticed. The fact that the theme runs all the way through the short clip is satisfying, it doesn't become anti-climatic. |
“A settling of accounts with minimalist sculpture.”
"Paradox of Praxis 1 (1997) is the record of an action carried out under the rubric of “sometimes making something leads to nothing.” For more than nine hours, Alÿs pushed a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it completely melted. And so for hour after hour he struggled with the quintessentially Minimal rectangular block until finally it was reduced to no more than an ice cube suitable for a whisky on the rocks, so small that he could casually kick it along the street." http://francisalys.com/sometimes-making-something-leads-to-nothing/ |
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-ALYS RESPONSE-
For my response, I responded to 'Samples II' and created similar noises with metal poles that i found in the urban area of South Bermondsey. I went for a walk and found a stick. I then scrapped it past any metal poles/fences which i had come across. This response is where i realised i could do a lot more with the concept of walking than just taking photographs. I realised that there are also a lot of noises that can be made with objects all around me and also around me when i am simply just walking. There is a lot more that can be done with the body of landscape that I am walking in. |
CONCEPTUAL WALKING
Concept: "Concepts are mental representations, abstract objects or abilities that make up the fundamental building blocks of thoughts and beliefs."
To start my conceptual walking, i decided to start at school, a place that i know best and also a place that i am comfortable with. I took a map of the premises and lined where i was going to walk. I decided to walk around the edge of the whole outside gate of the school amnd in each corner to photograph what is there. I Chose to photograph looking outwards from the school because it meant that something new was going to be photographed each time, instead of taking photographs of the school from different angles. I also planned to video the actual walking, seeing what noises i could make with objects on my way inspired by my Frances Alys response and the photographing each destination of each corner. |
DYPTCH: I chose to present my photographs as dyptch's this is because i had exactly 8 photographs, two for every corner and I wanted to show all of them but together. As if a small duo.
EDITING: I took these photos digitally and wanted to edit them so that they would look slightly more bright and saturated. I edited them on the mac's "edit" selection in "photos". In the "adjust" section I placed the light and colour right to the brightest and most saturated option. I chose to edit them like this because I felt I had done a lot of black and white work so far and I wanted to make my photographs more interesting by intensifying the colour. |
These are the photographs from the first corner of the school, where i started and i took a photo straight on and one from a low angel; looking upwards.
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These photographs are from the second corner I walked to. I again took at the bottom of the hill, facing it and then a photo at the top showing what was on top of the hill.
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This is the third corner. It was a corner of the school car park and it was inspired me to add depth to the colour scheme of this small collection, as these photograph are very simplicitic and before the edit were very dull and so i made them seem for interesting.
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These photographs are of the last corner which I had walked to (and where also led to the school field - Which i am planning do photograph seperately). I photographed the gate from a further away position and then photographed what i saw when standing at the gate.
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CORNERS from Thomas Tallis School on Vimeo. |
I created a response video of all the different sounds I could make whilst walking from corner to corner. I did not want to just photograph the journey but instead try and create sound with different objects and aspects that were already placed in the landscape (non foreign objects). Naturalistic sounds and also a new way of documenting my walking. I also edited the video to contain a lot of light and have a high saturation to match with dytchs, to make a collection and to add character. I like creating these video responses because it is intriguing to see what sounds can be made with objects that I would usually turn a blind eye too. |
I am planning to take a walk, somewhere where I have not walked yet and in a place that I am not similar with. I have decided to walk from 'Charing Cross Station' to 'Piccadilly Circus Station'. Going through small roads as well and main roads. I want to focus on capturing activity by the public and to also take candid portraits of people who i walk past. I will also be photographing subjectivly.
EXPERIMENTING WITH EXPIRED INFRARED KODAK FILM. 35MM:I was given two rolls of 'Infrared film' which had been expired for almost/or more than 10 years. As i have been working with film, i wanted to experiment more than just use the average coloured film. I chose to walk around South Bermondsey focusing on the light. I wanted to photograph both in places which were really lit up and places which weren't so lit up. So i took a walk around, purposely to find these different lightings. I chose to do this because I did not know how the film was going to come out or if it was going to work at all! But if it did work i wanted to see the outcome of the photos when in different lightings. If more light fuzzed the image or if less light made the photograph stand out more. THE DEVELOPED FILM: |
This is the outcome for my first roll of the expired film. Overall they came out really well and all of them came out slightly different in the sense some are more grainy and blurred, whilst others seem really clear and definded. The photos which are more affective are the ones which have the grainy black dots on them and the ones with have the white blurs blocking out some of the photograph. I like how it is blurred out because it creates the photograph to become slightly uncanny and that the mystery is behind the blur/grainy dots. I also like the contrasting ones with light and shadows. The shadows came out really definded and noticable against light grey or white backgrounds. The film being expired has given the photographs an "old" look to them (apart from the cars). Each photograph has a different tone of black and white, some have darker blacks, whilst others have more grey tones and white becomes a light grey in some of the photographs. The first image of the slideshow i like alot, this is because of the hollowness that the picture has due to the large surface area. I also like that on the right side is more in the shade but the left side has glimpses of light and the empitness as a whole i generally like; there are not distractions. This experiment has taught me not to be worried about experimenting with film, even if its expired because it could potentially come out better than in date, traditonal film and i also know that i would like to use film alot more through out component two but also not to completely abandon digital photography.
EXPERIMENTING WITH VIBRANT COLOURS TO ADD EFFECT:
I wanted to experiment with filters and adding colour to the photographs. I wanted to change the black and white in to contrasting colours, I wanted to do this because i wanted to see if i would add depth and to see if i could make them seem more exciting then they already are. I used an app called "Darkroom"
COLLABORATING INFRARED FILM AND COLOURED FILM TO CREATE A COLLAGE:
2 POINT PERSPECTIVE COLLAGE:
35MM COLOUR FILM - TAKING ONE SHOT WITH EVERY JOURNEY:
FINAL PIECE PLAN:
For my final piece I want to represent all the walking that I have done throughout the course of component two. I am planning to create a large scale series of collages using the photographs above. I want the collages to represent walking past a fence and on the other side there being a series of different landscapes. I want them to represent all the different perspectives in the world.