Larry Sultan-
' What drives me to continue this work is difficult to name. It has more to do with love than with sociology, with being a subject in the drama rather than a witness.'
Larry Sultan was an American photographer from California and he was originally a teacher at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978-88, and also taught at the California College of Arts in San Francisco 1989-2009. Sultan has a collection of 3 books; Evidence with Mike Mandel, pictures from homes and The valley. Living in California was a source of inspiration for many of his projects as his work is a mix of documentary, and also staged photography. These then creating images of the psychological but also the physical landscape of suburban family life.
' What drives me to continue this work is difficult to name. It has more to do with love than with sociology, with being a subject in the drama rather than a witness.'
Larry Sultan was an American photographer from California and he was originally a teacher at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978-88, and also taught at the California College of Arts in San Francisco 1989-2009. Sultan has a collection of 3 books; Evidence with Mike Mandel, pictures from homes and The valley. Living in California was a source of inspiration for many of his projects as his work is a mix of documentary, and also staged photography. These then creating images of the psychological but also the physical landscape of suburban family life.
' These are my parents. From that simple fact, everything follows. I realize that beyond the rolls of film and the few good pictures, the demands of my project and my confusion about its meaning, is the wish to take photography literally. To stop time. I want my parents to live forever.'
One of his projects; 'Pictures from homes' , is his pendant to his parents and it was first published in 1992. He resulted in a narrative collage with this project, using contemporary photographs with film stills from his movies, fragments of conversation , his own writings and more memorabilia. What inspired his work was his returns to home in Southern California, where he visited his parents periodically in the 1980s. He speaks about the memories he has of coming to visit his parents, the house, the details, how he felt and what he would get up to. This is why he decided to use the home in the images of his project, because it was special and filled with memories but also fit in with the idea of his project. As he personally stated himself, he was driven by the love he had for sociology and being a subject rather than a witness in important moments and memories. He realises how one day he will wake up with a whole new day and mindset with new memories being made, therefore in his work he focused on wanting to capture his parents in such beautiful images and keep them there forever. Almost as though this was Sultan's way of stopping time and keeping these people who are so very close to him forever, metaphorically. In his project he gave his parents this sort of power and responsibility of sharing their side of a story. In one of the images he even snuck into his parents bedroom to photograph his mum sleeping, Sultan describes sneaking into his mother’s bedroom and photographing her she lay sleeping – “I was so apprehensive of waking her that I breathed in rhythm with her.” He photographed the underside of her foot, which he soon realises he has never seen before and during this excitement, he wished he could “photograph it again and again”. He also then made a realisation that she was not really asleep – “We were co-conspirators. Just as I was secretly photographing, she was secretly awake. She felt me looking.” .
For my response to Larry Sultan, i decided to follow my mum around on a weekend around the house and take a few images. It went quite well as i got a few different style of images and experimented with new angles, whilst she completed some of the activities during the day. I successfully showed the main parts of her day through these images and captured beautiful detail. To improve the images, I could experiments with different lightings to create more advanced images. The fact that my mum really dislikes being photographed, was a restriction as she is not used to being in front of a camera, however i just told her to keep doing what she was so that i could capture natural/genuine moments in my images. The advantages were that i had a whole free day at home to dedicate to sticking with my mum and also the sun in the morning, as it delivered amazing lighting for some of the images. Overall i do like the images, especially because this is a new style of photography that i have tried and experimented with capturing things i would sometimes not do, such as the picture of my mums feet. I love the amount of detail and story in each image, creating a memory caught in a picture. I think that i did try to focus a bit too much of making sure i responded to the artist correctly, meaning i was not as focused on my style of photography but did try new things. If i were to do this again, i would try to focus more on still life through this artists style as i am more confident with that style of photography.
Delfine Caramona-
“I live a love story with light and color. I look for beauty in everything that surrounds me”
“I live a love story with light and color. I look for beauty in everything that surrounds me”
Delfine Caramona is an artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentinais who is partly known as the photographer that plays with shadows. She fell in love with photography when she a teenager, after she also studied theater and staging. SHe ended up with a camera in her hands one day and that was when she realized she was able to express everything regarding feelings, states and thoughts in an honest and pure way. Carmona managed to create her own visual code that got her recognized by millions of other artists and the wider community. She created a character that is the story teller of the adventures that come from every day life through a creative tunnel. Her most repeated element through her work is shadows and her imagination, was a world made of suggestions, lights, shadows and simplicity. Delfina Carmona says 'art is my engine to be alive, taking pictures and creating universes is what I know, it is the way I find to express myself and that is the greatest motivation anyone can have for doing something'. As she makes clear from her images, her inspirations are light, colour and cinema, as well as people.
I think her images are beautiful, the way that Carmona coordinates colour with the sun and shadows created, make such interesting and beautiful still life images. The objects that she uses usually bring such bright pops of colour into her images, which add detail as they are vibrant colours.
This is my favourite image of her's, this i because of the amount of detail that is capture in this image.In this image there is a lady sat on stairs, naked, however quite visible is the detailing of lines of some nude tights that she is wearing. There is splatters of some brown on the legs, all of different size and her arm is dipped in a jar of clear water. The stairs have white and red paint and the blue paint on the stairs has some cracks. The sun is beaming onto the white wall, creating beautiful shadows. The colours in the image coordinate very nicely and the blue and red compliment the nude. This is a still life image, which i take inspiration from as i enjoy that style of photography. In this image i like the close detail caught of her veins as you can see the texture of the bumps and also the tiny hairs on the arms. The texture of the wall is caught beautifully as it is allowing me to imagine the subtle feeling of a bumby texture if i ran my hand across the wall. The lighting that is creating the shadows, is most likely coming from the sun coming through a window in the morning. The spacing is quite compact causing an intimate atmosphere, which is also achieved by the nudity of the women being revealed from the corner, allowing us to feel sort of closer to her.
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Aïcha Fall-
Aïcha Falls was born in Abidjan, Côte d'lvoire , where she spent her childhood, to then later decide to leave for France to study there. Over time, she learned to create a link between her identity, culture and her traditions, using Art. Fall uses photography to tell her own stories without the use of words, and her images are beautifully composed with color and coordination to shape and background. The scenes and movement that she captures are spontaneous and full of creativity. Bursting with this creativity, she envisioned for the best way for her to represent her African culture, and her vision though her work, was to go back home. She managed to achieve the vision that she had. She achieved to represent her culture, heritage and community through her photographs. She is a very talented African female photographer.
She has won 3 awards; Shortlisted in the street photography competition 2019 from the independent photographer, finalist in the Bridgeman studio award 2019 and shortlisted women photographer grant 2020. Fall is a graduate in African language and studies and also perpetuates the idea of Art is an integral part of our lives.
She has won 3 awards; Shortlisted in the street photography competition 2019 from the independent photographer, finalist in the Bridgeman studio award 2019 and shortlisted women photographer grant 2020. Fall is a graduate in African language and studies and also perpetuates the idea of Art is an integral part of our lives.
http://www.tomhunter.org/tom-hunter-shows-at-the-atenuem-findland/
Family Album photo
This is a photo of my mum when she was 22, so was taken in 1995. I chose this photo because i personally am really interested in fashion and how it has changed over the years and decades, and it is shown in this picture. I also like the background as you can see the design of where she is is quite old fashioned. The thing itself in this image is my mum, she is the main subject of the image and i really like that as you can tell this photo was purposely taken, and she seems genuinely happy which is another reason for me choosing this image as i enjoy seeing my mums life before me and her out and happy. It seems to be taken in a Lithuanian place as the writing in the back is lithuanian, maybe a pub or restaurant. The detail is the amount we see of my mums outfit as it allows us guessing of what period of time the image was taken, based on her fashion. Also, as mentioned the posters at the back allow assumption of where it was taken. The detail of her arms being crossed sugests that this was purposely taken and she is posing and looking at the camera. The framing was clearly set and cut out to focus on the main subject, however did not do a close up image as included more of her body and some hints of where this is taken, so likely to had been taken for a memory. As i said this looks like a picture taken for memory therefore is a moment that has happened in the past in the 1990s which yoiu can tell from the colouring and quality of the image and also her clothing. For the vantage point, the photographer has taken this image straitght ahead centre, which as mentioned, allows us to assume this was an intended image of my mum.
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Tom Hunter 'woman reading possession order'- image analysis
Postcards from home photoshoot 1-
All of these images were taken at home, as that is where it feels most like home to me. However, the image of the flats was in Lithuania as that represents another place that feels like home, because it is where all my family are and i associate that family with home as well. I took more family images, and i think that is the field i enjoy most, also i really like taking images of my mum becasue i am closest to my mum and i feel a lot of my teenage life is simiar to what her's was like.I took quite a few images however chose not even 30 because a lot of the still life was just very boring and set up, i prefer more natural moments. The image of my dad and cat were natural and candid, i was downstairs taking images of my mum and my cat was sitting staring out of the window, my dad was sat next to my cat and all i told him was to just face the window and cross his legs so i could capture this image. Aesthetically, the images are quite bright and have pops of vibrant colous. Another moment was when my mum and I were laughing about the mess of her hair so i asked if i could make a picture out of it. Some still lifes were natural, such as the image of my garden and flowers, however some i had to create, such as the guiness bottle and my mum holding the sweet potato.In a lot of the images for the frame i tended to focus on the subjects in the image, like in the images of my dads hand and cats paw. In most images the time was spontaneous and a captured moment, as mentioned. When taking these images i was mostly interested on capturing details , like in the image of my mum cleaning the bath, i have managed to capture the detail of the gloves being dirty and her hair being quite messy allows association that the time of the image was taken was in the morning. My favourite image is most likely the one of my dad and cat, this is because of the size proportion captured in the image and the simplicity of it just being the backs of them is more interesting and calm, allowing questions of why they are sitting there but also connotating life of adults when they are getting older and the strangest of relaxation times. Although to improve the image, the curtains could show less of the garden allowing full focus to stay on my dad and my cat. I do still like the image of the Lithuanian flats, although i do wish the weather was not as gloomy and miserable as it clashes with my memories of Lithuania being so good. Although i do also find that interesting as that trip to lithuania was actually a sad memory as i was going to my grandma's funeral, so reflects a very interesting story line for this image for me. I did also take this picture on a film camera and want to see how the story changes in that image.
William Klein- photographers techniques and processes
In the video, we learn how a sheet of contact is the diary of a photographer, which is composed up of 36 exposures. This 'diary' allows us to see what the photographer sees, along with his mistakes, hits, angles etc. It is quite rare that the audience will get to see the before and after of an image we are viewing, which is interesting as the what we see is often the 125th second of when it is taken. However, contacts allow us to see a a before and after, and why one image was chosen over another. An image is made up of a setting, or cast of characters, in some of Klein's images, he was photographing these statues, where he said there will be less surprises as they dont move, but as a photographer he can still consider the angles and what text will arise. In the video we hear all the stories of different images he has taken on the film, him alomost being like a film camera of a movie. He had images from Down South, near Atlanta in 1963 of an accident that had happened with a car, and the old woman was inside, Klein was trying to capture the movement and trying to find the woman. Whilst the officers were making a report of this incident, he was making his own photographic report, recorded throughout snippets of the film. His images in Moscow, men with high cheek bones, caps and checked shirts, they move and so does Klein, the images creating the same atmosphere as a Russian movie. The sun in the setting burning the film and then the few steps taken and he is in Chekhov,Moscow, where there is a woman but a second later people move and everything has changed. I think that is so interesting how a small movement of a person or a big movement of a crowd can change a before image completely and the story, meaning it may now be a mistake image that would not be used, even though a second before, it was perfect. This happened to him in the Paris streets, missing and making images as the few moments change and suddenly he captures the perfect image with the foreground, background, couples, bar, people in windows and a man watching. In 1961, Tokyo subway at 7am, it was dark and he was using long exposures of an 1/8 of a second, where he described it 'playing with accident' , something has happened there and he captures it. |
For him, it is a photo, for others it is not, because the movement in the image may be seen as messy to someone or the event could be uninteresting, proving photograohy is personal. Flash with long exposures freezes people and in contacts you can sometimes find stuff and sometimes not. He took an image in the New York streets in 1954, by a candy store of a boy squatting , then 20 years in the next image its two other boys taking the boys place, everything in the image to Klein is perfect, including the ads and the tropical shirt. He decides to edit the image with putting on the negativeand enlarger, whilst playing with the focusing, where then the white bleeds and blacks pour over, this creating a new image, having two out of one now. Photography is built up of the frame, time and angle and how the chosen time will work with the frame or angle. From Klein's few contact sheets he captured a few seconds and resulted in 100 non-photographs and 20 photographs, showing that the journey of taking an image is a process where by the the photographer has to quickly adapt and take each second as everything changes, including if youve captured a photo or not and the text behind it. This video all relates to when i take my own images, because when he says about 'he hesitates, he hits, he misses' its the process of having to take loads of shots for one image and choose the perfect one to use when capturing a moment, or even having none of them turn out well enough to use. His hesitation would of been the thinking of how and if he should capture the image, and then going for it but the image just not working out.
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Daido Moriyama-printing show, Tate
Moriyama chose to have a large number of photographs displayed so that it would be like a menu for viewers, allowing them to select what they individually wanted, making outcomes of their own book unique to everyone else's. The Tate printing show was a recreation of what Moriyama did in 1974. What he then was that he decided to create an exhibition after visiting New York in 1971. He was inspired by Pop Art in New York and decided to have a photocopy machine and a printing station, so instead of the audience just simply seeing prints and art on the wall, instead saw the photographer at a station with a photocopier machine, where they copied and created individual layouts. Moriyama was still editing and sequencing but shuffled the pages when coming out of the copier. It was a unique, different idea to what exhibitions should actually be. He enjoyed that the participants and also him were having fun through this photography, allowing everyones own individual intake into the activity. Tate reintroduced this idea of giving the editing power to the audience to pick the sequence. This take on exhibition is interesting as it not only allowed people to explore their creative, individual take on the art through enjoyment but also think and really look into each image and what meaning and text they personally attatch and how that image creates a personal feeling to them. |
However, this also allowed Moriyama to see peoples characters from just the first image and see the different sequences people put together, allowing his own take on people's taste as he feels you can communicate with people just simply through photography . It allowed people to embrace being the photographer, editior and artist all in one.
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Rodger Ballen- 'A good picture comes from nowhere', Tate
Ballen says 'a good picture comes from nowhere', he calls it a place in the mind that the mind is not prepared for. In these photos that he took between 1986 and 1994 in the South African countryside, there was a group of white people that lived on the fringe, which intrigued him. His image 'Dresie and Casie, twins', originally arose for the audience to see them as aggressive, however when you are open to the ability to see the before and after images of that image, the essence of the image is changed completely. Ballen explained that photography is always about catching powerful moments. The first still life that he captured was the 'Puppy between feet' (image on right), he said about it being an image capturing the old and the new, birth and re-birth. Persoanlly i think that is such a nice image with a meaningful text attatched that relates to every audience as we go through life the same. The detailing of the image is beautiful as you an tell the big feet are much older and toes start to curl and the positioning of bones changes. Also the detail of the colours and shadows is very good and again shows the tiredness and wear of the feet. Drawring started to provate a series in Ballen's work as he found peope drew on their walls, when visiting different homes. He became inspired to make videos oif his different series, which seemed to become a successful idea, because many younger people followed him on this idea. He visited an assylum of birds, where expectedly, there were birds everywhere, he thought about how birds are seen as pure and the heavens of earth, yet no one likes rats. However, both are a product of life. He also visited a women's prison which arose his focus of glass windows and making the invisible, visible. He tried to photograph what could not be seen but yet he alwyas knew was there as we all believe in spirits somehow. From this video i took a lot of interest in Ballen's way of thinking as it is abstract but with using real life situations. He thinks more out of the box and creates such beautiful, unique images. |
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William Klein- In pictures
In this video of William Klein we learn from his own words how a sheet of contacts holds all the memories possible to be brought back. Klein always made his prints in only one studio, so everything was under his control, and completed to his standards. He thought photography could be treated like a painting. Klein went out into the streets of New York to photograph and he felt free. He did not see what he was doing as revolutionary, as he went out just being facinated by faces, and photographed crowds. He mentioned Robert Capa's quote 'If a photograph is not good, it's because you weren't close enough'. To me this quote means that a photograph can capture great detail of a moment, you just have to be stood in the right place and angle, and also not be afraid to get closer. A typical memory for Klein is his street and team, he shows one of his images of a girl and boy. He did not know that the picture would result with a blur and this caused the girld hand to look like Picasso's hand. The blur in the image created an element for him and that time it was an accident, but he repeated it later in other photos, but this time on purpose. Klein was sensitive to nthe fact there were guns everywhere and kids being involved; kids imitatating cops. He took a beautiful image of a boy holding a gun to the camera, whilst another boy was stood on the side. He explained how this image was a self-portrait to him, because he was sometimes the tough guy with the gun, but also sometimes the angelic one, like the boy on the side. |
He tried to capture an image of the only guy who refused to have his photo taken in New York. He spoke about an original Maquette from New York from 50 years ago, a double page spread and street photos. It was the least published at the time as it was funky and grungy and was not published anywhere in New York, as people thought it made New York look like a slum and were 'Anti-American photos'. He says this beautiful line that almost everything is a coincidence and luck and chance, "Half of everything i have done is chance". |
Sequencing Diptychs-
Initial ideas: shape, cleaning
I put these two images together to create diptychs because initially the shapes created by the main subjects in each image linked together. By pairing these two images I was aiming for a humourous result, as I tilted the image of the bottle , I also had to adjust the image of my mum, to make it look as if she was falling out of the bottle. I also paired these images because both images have a drag through of the colour green. I really like this diptych as it really emphasises my personality as a photographer. To make the diptych better I could adjust the framing of both images slightly so that the bottle and my mum's body are completely in line together, making all the details perfect.
I put these two images together to create diptychs because initially the shapes created by the main subjects in each image linked together. By pairing these two images I was aiming for a humourous result, as I tilted the image of the bottle , I also had to adjust the image of my mum, to make it look as if she was falling out of the bottle. I also paired these images because both images have a drag through of the colour green. I really like this diptych as it really emphasises my personality as a photographer. To make the diptych better I could adjust the framing of both images slightly so that the bottle and my mum's body are completely in line together, making all the details perfect.
initial ideas: movement
This is my favourite diptych. This is because it really shows my creativity of images and also the use of my not so good photos into a diptych that actually is unique and a good representation of my personaloty as a photographer. I took the image of my mum's hair just as a trial idea and after i took the images of my cat, i remembered about the image of my mums hair, which went well as the hair and the cats hand are both black, allowing interlinking through colour. As in the right hand image, my cat and dad are holding hands, when paired with the image of my mum, it looks as if the cat's hand is being pulled out of the hair. This crates humour as it is more fictional and also the movement of my mums hair being to the right, creates this effect she is being pulled.
This is my favourite diptych. This is because it really shows my creativity of images and also the use of my not so good photos into a diptych that actually is unique and a good representation of my personaloty as a photographer. I took the image of my mum's hair just as a trial idea and after i took the images of my cat, i remembered about the image of my mums hair, which went well as the hair and the cats hand are both black, allowing interlinking through colour. As in the right hand image, my cat and dad are holding hands, when paired with the image of my mum, it looks as if the cat's hand is being pulled out of the hair. This crates humour as it is more fictional and also the movement of my mums hair being to the right, creates this effect she is being pulled.
Luke Saxon (optional artist research)
Luke Saxon is has a degree in photography from the University of Central Lancashire. His work has been shown widely, including The Photographers’ Gallery in London. Hiz images often come from his explorations of small towns. His images are humorous, which i really like and also relates to the work i have made myself through this project. I like the humour that is involved in his work as it makes it more unique and out there, showing confidence.The work is quite British, which runs far beyond the fact that he makes most of it in his native Rochdale and other northern towns. His work is very well thought out, as he pairs 2 similar shape images into funny, smart diptychs. The colours coordinate well as he often pairs duller images with brighter coloured ones, allowing his work to stand out. These relate to my own diptychs as we both create humour through the choices of images we pair. We both play with shape and movement. Looking at his work inpires me of some more ideas as well. I also really like that he focuses on some global problems as wel, eg being the diptych of the tree and the wired fence with a plastic bag stuck in them, as it visits this idea of literring and pollution very significantly as the tree has been cut off with this litter.
My narrowed set of images;
The reason this is my refined set of images is because i think these are my most successful images, they cover the side of my photography that i want to focus on which is my mum and capturing her through the day naturally. I also like that some of these images allow my style and humour to be shown, especially through dyptichs i can create with some of these images. I like the colours in these images, as there is a lot of bright colours against neutrals. I also think that the different angles that i experimented with are different to my other work and effective. An example is the back of my dad and cat, it allows questions to arise from my images and hides identity of the people involved. I also took images of my dads hand against my cat's paw, which i think was successful because of the size comparison, and the colours both creating a constrat.
New images refined from set before:
I took lots of images and have narrowed and edited my favourites. From the set before i decided that i liked capturing natural images of my mum and some of my dad. I prefer when the images i take are not staged as i think they come out stronger and with a better meaning, therefore i tried to do this again with this set of images, however i found it did not go so well this time. I tried to capture my mum cleaning again, however just was not as happy with the results as i was the previous set of images. I also tried to take some more images of my cat, some funny ones, like the one of my mum holding him making it look like her face is his because of the same hair colour as my cat's fur. I also wanted to include my cat as i really liked the images from before and also my mum is so attatched to my cat and treats him like her child, therefore i wanted to explore that connection in this set of images. I also staged some images to try and create some diptych ideas already. I love that this set of images are more of a darker set as it is a more opposite take on the original pictures. It would be even better if i was able to capture more natural images in my mums daily routine that i liked, but i just felt they were not as good as the originals. William Klein says you make a mistake, repeat it and get an even better result, although for me it was the opposite, as i just wasnt as happy with the images.
Olivia Arthur- HOME project
When she started this project, Arthur was actually 6 months pregnant with her second child, therefore a lot of her images are also revolved around the pregnacy and personally i think the images are beautiful and create such beautiful memories whilst being able to call it work. She describes this constant period of waiting that she had, which started to become more and more personal to her as she could capture moments and feelings of this waiting period. She saw her family dynamic change during the expectation of another baby, and she explained this anticipation that was creeping up, as she found out she would need a c-section. It was her first operation and not surprisingly, she was nervous. Whilst they were waiting in the hospital for her operation, she was taking images, playing around with the hats etc, tyring to capture some pictures of this waiting period. She really enjoyed family photos and also loved capturing of important moments . One of the moments she captured was quite a strange one, and it was of her daughter having a tantrum because she wanted her mum (Olivia Arthur) to take a oicture of her. From this image, Arthur explains the great emotion she feels as she can see her daughter crying ans knowing she just wanted her picture taken. It was such a beautiful image, as it did really capture all of her daughters emotion and frustration, allowing the audience to also feel emotion towards the image. She explained how she is pretty trasient and a photographer and also was growing up. Arthur never had 1 childhood home, as her family were always movingand so explains that home to her is more about family and people your |
close to, rather than a house or building. Her and her partner made a publishing house where they present their work as well as other artists, for people to see. She felt it was something her and her partner could do together rather then just doing things separately, alone. She took this beautiful birth photo, where she asked the sheet to be lowered after they just brought out her baby, and i think that image was just so extrodinary as a childs birth is so special and she just captured that incredible moment and all the emotion, which she can now alway remember with that image. I really enjoy how personal her images are, like the moments in the hospital and her family, as they bring so much more meaning.
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Mark Power- HOME project
When Mark Power first heard about this project, his immediate reaction was to make something more personal. His children are a big part of his take on the project as also to them this is their home and it is where Power's family unit has been built. His daughter is going away to University in London and therefore is leaving their home in Brighton. This is a traumatic experience for the parents, whilst also for the daughter. He wanted to photograph his family life within the home but also wanted to go on long walks (no transport), till he found somehting he was happy with, away from his front door. He describes photography as a passport into other people's lives and as an excuse to be nosy and also travel to places that have not been seen before. Power thinks about where his images will go, like New York and Japan. His dog was in intensive care and so he included an x-ray he got from the vets as he is a part of their home and family. The x-ray he needed to weave picture into the set as it is different to the rest of the set. He thinks about how certain images balance each other, when creating sets and change the meanings. He finds it difficult to photograph something familiar to himand he wants to get it right for him first. He started to think aboout what home meant for him, as for him it was where his family are gathered. He wanted to try and include when his daughter was getting dropped at uni into his project because it is a key moment, as it is actually about how family shifts and adapts and changes, it isn't always maintained. He does explain the difficulty to photograph your home, family, landscape outside the door that you are familiar with as he just wants to create an honest response. |
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Creating series:
This was my first put together series as i thought abou the colours, close or far images, shapes, and also feelings the images give me, to help think of what diptychs i would put together. Already i already knew i liked the diptychs i previously created, and therefore want to include images 1,2,7 and 8 in my series. I also like the image of my mum with her hair all in front with the hood up, and the one of my cat together as a diptych. This is because they both give me a sort of unsettling, eerie feeling, and is emphasised when put together. I also like that the image of the tools in the garden and my cat and dad reflect the shapes and idea of being stood/ sat up. I like the picture of my mums hands with the plants, becasuse it adds pop of colour to the series (also i love how professional the image looks), as well as the sweet potato and flowers.
The final set needed to have 8-12 images. I decided to keep these 12 as i imagine a lot of pairs already in diptychs and thought about how the set looks altogether when overviewing it. I took out the image of my mum's hands in the green plants as i did not think it went too well with any other images and was also the odd one out in terms of colour. I also decided to loose the image of my mum with the flowers but from a side, mirror angle, because majority of my images are taken at a head on straight angle, whereas that was not and therefore i felt it did not fit the set of images as well as these all interlink well. I really like the colour black running throughout my final set because it allows this more darker, unsettling,sadder atmosphere which to me represents lockdown quite well. Also, the colour black is mostly brought out from my mum or cat, which to me is sort of like a connection of the two main characters, which reflect how close my mum is to my cat as she treats him her child. I liked that the image of the flowers and the sweet potato are the images which bring in colour into my set, however still have even the slight addition of the black in the image, allowing this interlink. I also has the image of my mum with my cat from my second photoshoot, that could of gone well as a diptych with the one of my dad and cat, however, i do not really like the one with my mum as it say 'PINK' on her dressing gown, which i personally feel creates a more hectic image then i would like.