Friday, June 18, 2010
New work
I hope to be putting up new work soon and possibly some old work I never got around to putting up but my internet resources are limited! Also apologies for the last post I had to delete it because it came up all askewed, not sure why but hopefully it won't be a problem again.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Robert frank
I've been meaning to look up this photographer for god knows how long and even though it has been claimed by many that he is the father of contemporary photography there is not one book on him in our library! His stuff is gorgeous and it is really the old style I love so I'm considering buying his renowned book The Americans, all the images I've seen from it look amazing and £18.00 ain't that bad...we'll see how the funds are!
Anyway here are some of his beautiful photographs..
Anyway here are some of his beautiful photographs..
John Gossage
This is another photographer I've just discovered and love. If I keep looking through all his photographs I'll have 100 pages of research of just his stuff so I'm stopping myself now and showing him to you all.
He has a similiar aim to myself with his photographs; he examines spaces and uses the emotional context of their history.
Here is a statement I found on him that seems to outline the aim of his work:
John Gossage (American, 1946- ) is an artist who makes history present in photographs. He photographs places and sites that tell an everyday story: paths worn through abandoned tracts of land, corners where debris collects, markings on a wall, a table after a meal. Gossage photographs that which has just occurred to remind us that we may have already forgotten it happened or that we were there. By asking us look at what we have misplaced or abandoned he brings us face to face with the present as it becomes history. Throughout the 1980s Berlin became Gossage's overriding focus. Berlin, with its Wall, forgotten tracts of land, unwanted histories - both forgotten and remembered - became the place where Gossage discovered the ideas that have come to mark his personalized style of photograhic storytelling. The art from this period is arguable his most important and has unquestionable influenced all his subsequent work.
He has a similiar aim to myself with his photographs; he examines spaces and uses the emotional context of their history.
Here is a statement I found on him that seems to outline the aim of his work:
John Gossage (American, 1946- ) is an artist who makes history present in photographs. He photographs places and sites that tell an everyday story: paths worn through abandoned tracts of land, corners where debris collects, markings on a wall, a table after a meal. Gossage photographs that which has just occurred to remind us that we may have already forgotten it happened or that we were there. By asking us look at what we have misplaced or abandoned he brings us face to face with the present as it becomes history. Throughout the 1980s Berlin became Gossage's overriding focus. Berlin, with its Wall, forgotten tracts of land, unwanted histories - both forgotten and remembered - became the place where Gossage discovered the ideas that have come to mark his personalized style of photograhic storytelling. The art from this period is arguable his most important and has unquestionable influenced all his subsequent work.
Eugene Atget
I know a lot of you will be like- Eugene Atget everyone knows him but somehow I didn't until now and I LOVE him. So here are some of his beautiful photographs of Paris in the early 20th century.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Artist statement
In my work I aim to create images of discomfort. I take photographs at night in isolated spaces so as to enhance the feeling of foreboding that something will happen or something has happened. I present a deliberately ambiguous scene allowing the emotions of the image to be more accessible to the viewer.
I am instinctively drawn towards windows; they add an element of voyeurism to the image which the night scene enhances.
In my process I look at each image individually and try to locate a better image within it and crop it down to this. This brings up an issue of size and scale that I will be exploring further.
I am instinctively drawn towards windows; they add an element of voyeurism to the image which the night scene enhances.
In my process I look at each image individually and try to locate a better image within it and crop it down to this. This brings up an issue of size and scale that I will be exploring further.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Feedback
I'd really love to get some feedback on my work. I'm interested to know whether you think the colour photographs or the black and white photographs achieve my objective. I'm starting to wonder myself if the colour photographs are too focused on the saturated colours that illuminate from long exposures. All comments are welcome and I can't wait to read them.
Artist Statement to date
First of all I'll update you with my artist statement then upload some new images.
My aim is to create a narrative through the medium of photography by making choices of space, lighting (day, night) and framing. I want to make a narrative that is sinister and dark and unclear. I want an uneasiness to be felt by the viewer when they view the image.
My aim is to create a narrative through the medium of photography by making choices of space, lighting (day, night) and framing. I want to make a narrative that is sinister and dark and unclear. I want an uneasiness to be felt by the viewer when they view the image.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Video project
In college we got given a video project and I based mine on a day in the life of someone who is depressed. I did this using only reflections so as to slightly distort the image and give the feeling that one would be looking through their eyes.
Check it out through this link http://www.vimeo.com/8693126 or by clicking on the title of this post.
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