I linked a load of my blogs up on twitter including tweeting certain photographers and galleries i have written about, lets hope that brings up the page views :)
Monday, 30 April 2012
Katie Silvester - Photoshoot in Ikea.
When i first stumbled upon these pictures on my flickr i originally believed that they were real bedrooms until i clicked the thumbnail and saw the bigger picture. The red and white price labels dotted around the room suddenly came to the front of the image, and it was through this code of the font and label format that i immediately recognised it as Ikea - strange coming from something so simple.
I really like how the work challenges the idea of what we call home. For me it outlines the difference between a house and a home. A house is space in which one lives - a general term. A home is a space that is ones own, that is their space and filled with not only the material possessions but their memories and life experiences. Here these spaces are set up to be like a home, and the people in them almost become part of the scenery - they seem to fit in. Yet the distant faces and sometimes awkward positions say otherwise.
Graphic Design - Sagmeister Inc.
Obsessions Make My Life Worse and My Work Better - 2008
Made out of hundreds of pennys, carefully positioned on the ground according to the shiny-ness of the coin, this work fills me amazement and wonder as i connect with the words that speak so much truth. It makes me reflect on how i work at the moment, and also those around me on other degree courses. We as students become obsessed by what we do in order to get the results and satisfaction from the work we crave. We think about our work night and day, and physically make work so frequently that by the end of our project we've forgotten how little we've seen our friends and socialised, but boy do we have something to be proud of, especially when rewarded with a good grade!
Check out the video to see the work being created:
The Street Collection - Extended!
Get yourself over to The Street Collection website to grab yourself an affordable print in support of the PhotoVoice charity. With only a couple of days left it's for a great cause and the images are beautiful. Trust me, if i had £100 to spare i would be straight on that - but being a student means these funds are not available!
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Shopping Trolley in the Lea River, Hackney (East End Ophelia), 2006 by Johanna Neurath
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| Shadows, 2009:07:11 by Maciej Dakowicz |
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| Gare du Midi, Brussels, 2012 by Benoît Jourdai |
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| The Dog (and The Cat) , Buenos Aires, 2011 by Ova Hamer |
Click Images for link to page.
The PhotoVoice charity aims to encourage people who are disadvantaged or part of vulnerable communities to use photography as a medium of expression, to get there say and point of view out there. The experience becomes something positive in their lives and gives them a voice to be heard.
New iPhone app!
This article came up on my facebook news feed this morning, and though i dont own an iPhone i think it's still a brilliant idea and not something i have come accross before! The article states it has been 'developed for professional and serious amateur photographers' and while this is more than true i think it would be a great place for non-serious amateur's to get a taste for photography. Similar to the debate with the Instagram app i suppose in that people dont see it as valid photography work because they take a picture and stick a filter over it without being able to control any other element, but with this app you really can. But does it then become seen as invalid as it's images taken on an iPhone? Well look at the work of Thomas Demand which i have written about in a few posts below, they were taken with an iPhone, and i think they're great pieces of work!
People have become sceptical about photography and its ease of accessibility, which is not surprising as it's such a competitive field anyway, but i think its amazing that we have these new forms of communication through photography and can't wait to see what the reaction to this app is. It can be purchased in iTunes for iPhone 4 upwards for a small price of £1.99/$2.99 - enough to make me consider getting an iPhone myself! Or maybe i'll just borrow a friends...
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Transmission: New Remote Earth Views by Dan Holdsworth at the Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery
For me, when i originally looked at this work online, i didn't get much of a kick and wondered what i would experience when i got to the Brancolini Grimaldi gallery in London, and in fact i was pleasantly surprised at how i responded to the work.
The work is a series of images that is created digitally through the use of data surveys of certain terrains. They're not just any terrains, they are areas of Western America, that were once photographed by the likes of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, yet Holdsworth captures them in a completely different and technically updated way. Rather than beautiful landscapes caught on large format, we have these 'New Remote Earth Views' to gaze upon. These large grey prints that are accompanied by smaller prints of ground level views (they to me seemed like a back ground study piece, to show the smaller details) made much more of an impression on me than i had imagined.
There was certainly something about how the images were of a muted grey colour, which were surrounded by the vast white walls. For me this made it feel like a digital creation, and i think the colour is an important part as any element in this work. Should the colour be white, it would say something very different, like a connection to crumpled paper, or should the colour have been green, it would connote ideas of open fields for example.
Whether it was the way in which the images were created, or the link to older practices that have existed and captured by other great photographers i can't decide, but i really do like this work and think the new twist and 'Transmission' on the way we capture images now is something that will be pushed even more-so over the future years.
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| Yosemite, 2012. |
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| Grand Canyon. 2012 |
The Dailies by Thomas Demand at Sprüth Magers, London.
I took a trip to London with a group of people on my course and we went to see the Thomas Demand Exhibition at Sprüth Magers Gallery. The exhibition was called 'The Dailies', named after the raw footage that cameramen collect during filming, and the way in which Demand is showing us how the work is produced certainly has a feel of extra footage.
The images are of paper model re-creations of real life objects and spaces, and at first when i went to the gallery i didn't know this, but upon looking at the work, i figured it out due to the subtle yet obvious clues that Demand leaves in the images. Things like the edges of paper and the grooves of the corrugated cardboard. What makes it feel like raw footage is the fact that these images are taken on an iPhone, which reminds me of the way people take things like location shots and images for a scrap/work book, however Demand's images become something special via the print process.
The process used is 'Dye Transfer' and while talking to the people at the gallery, one lady mentioned how Demand had basically used all the dye left in the world for this process, as the dye is no longer in production. The process gives more accurate and real colours and allows for more control of the colours in the image. It's this process, that gives the images the edge to make them what they are.
Friday, 20 April 2012
ME
I suppose it would make sense for this to be at the beginning of my blog... but i'm one of those who doesn't like to talk about myself and so it makes sense to me that this wasn't my first post!
I started taking pictures around the age of 14, i bought my first SLR then and started photographing pretty much everything around me, as we all know this is how most photographers start out. I'd always be that friend in the group who would sit and take pictures of everyone else, i wanted to document these moments, they were and are my life.
From there i set up my Flickr account and felt proud at the response i would get to my images, friends of family started asking me to photograph for them and also for their businesses. My photographs of food are used on the Kinghams Restaurant website in Shere, where they serve amazing food may i add, and i feel proud to say that my work was almost published for a piece on them in The Sunday Times.
I studied photography for A-level at The College of Richard Collyer and received an A* and went on to study photography at foundation at UCA in Epsom and received a Merit. However, I use my flickr less frequently now, and only update it to keep my friends in knowledge of what i'm up to.
Currently studying at Southampton Solent University, and loving being surrounded by all things photography, i feel it's where i belong. Who wouldn't want to spend everyday of 3 years thinking, talking, writing and practicing something they love! For the future i'm considering a path in teaching photography, i feel passionately about sharing the knowledge i have learnt over the years, and i wish to immerse myself in that process, but who knows...
Right now i'm sitting in a digital suite, with 5 sheets of medium format film i've just processed and a smug smile on my face at how good they already look.... So for now it's time to head to the darkrooms and print, but who knows where i'll be in 5 years time....
I started taking pictures around the age of 14, i bought my first SLR then and started photographing pretty much everything around me, as we all know this is how most photographers start out. I'd always be that friend in the group who would sit and take pictures of everyone else, i wanted to document these moments, they were and are my life.
From there i set up my Flickr account and felt proud at the response i would get to my images, friends of family started asking me to photograph for them and also for their businesses. My photographs of food are used on the Kinghams Restaurant website in Shere, where they serve amazing food may i add, and i feel proud to say that my work was almost published for a piece on them in The Sunday Times.
I studied photography for A-level at The College of Richard Collyer and received an A* and went on to study photography at foundation at UCA in Epsom and received a Merit. However, I use my flickr less frequently now, and only update it to keep my friends in knowledge of what i'm up to.
Currently studying at Southampton Solent University, and loving being surrounded by all things photography, i feel it's where i belong. Who wouldn't want to spend everyday of 3 years thinking, talking, writing and practicing something they love! For the future i'm considering a path in teaching photography, i feel passionately about sharing the knowledge i have learnt over the years, and i wish to immerse myself in that process, but who knows...
Right now i'm sitting in a digital suite, with 5 sheets of medium format film i've just processed and a smug smile on my face at how good they already look.... So for now it's time to head to the darkrooms and print, but who knows where i'll be in 5 years time....
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