Presentation of work?

While i know its a long time before i have to present my work, ive been thinking of how i will present my work.

Originally the idea for this project came from a competition which required images to be printed out. However after some development within the ideas of my project and the idea now that it is to be a book full of images collected together. The scale of this project is very important to the images and the meaning behind it. Superstitions used to be a huge thing in the lives of many and now it has disintergrated to a scale which is nothing on what it used to be. 

The use of grids, multiple images and repetion of ideas allows me to create the scale of the images that i would  would want to achieve the feel of the vastness of the subject and how it used to effect the masses.


This project now kinda feels like it has expressed itself as a collection of mini projects then one solid project, however i feel by collecting the different superstitions in one book and working making the book fluid and work in such a way as to achieve the astetics i want. I want it to be random, yet coherient like the book 'exquist pain' by sophie calle.

Sophy Rickett

Sophy Rickett is a visual artist using a mixture of photography and sound. Her photography explores the narrative tendicies and the abstract possiblitiys of photographs. Her images, visually stunning, portray a sence of place and location. Often atmospheric, they play with the idea of dark and light, uncertancy and drama. The locations are lit in a way in which creates tension and feelings for the auidence.

I started to look at her work due to her use with grids and multiple images. Some of her images are diptics. She seems to use two different techniques with her use of imagery and multiples. Some images the photos look like one image spread over two or three pannels, such as if the images were pushed together they would be one image, the other is the normal two different images, however while they are different theyre is strong resemblance between them, often only one thing has changed.  These images are visually stunning. she uses long exposures, and different techniques to achieve interesting colours in her colour images, and very high contrasts in her black and white images. Her use of multiples are fantastic.

 

This work seems both relivent for my 'crack/back' images as well my he loves me/loves me not. 

Love/Not images, what next?

I've been comptemplating, where to go next with the idea of 'he loves me' 'he loves me not'  images that i wasnt really feeling infusiastic about the images i had taken before for the idea.
It got me thinking about where to head next with my images. I started to think about the comparison between living and dead flowers i made in my first shoot of images. 
The idea of the comparison of living and dead images made me think about the contrast between deciduous and coniferous and the comparison in winter, from the colours, green and brown, to the structural implication of trees and plants, the skeletal structure of deciduous trees in comparison to the more fullness of the coniferous trees that remain the same through out winter. 
This in turn lead me to the idea of a comparison of seasons and the changes to plants and nature that we achieve through the year.
The comparison to the:
dead and rebirth.
colour and less colour
shape and texture comparisons.
and even to some extent the weather.

I decided to use images i took over the summer period with images from winter (image ive taken now) to see how these images look and compaire together.

 

Helen Sear

Helen Sear originally begun her photographic practice from a fine art background.She explores ideas of vision, touch, and the re-presentation of the nature of experience, combining drawing, lens based media and digital technologies. Her work based around nature is very interesting for my he loves me he loves me not ideas. She has a very unusual way of looking at nature and connections between humans and nature. By using mix media she creates a look of almost like a painting with the use of superimposing different

From a series of landscapes and figures, two separate photographs are superimposed, the image behind appearing to float as a net or veil on the surface by a process of hand drawing/erasing in the computer. One photograph depicts the back of a head, the other a landscape both taken in different locations, the partial erasure of one reveals an incomplete picture of the other.

 

 

 relationships between nature and culture, mythology and technology have been at the forefront of Helen’s art practice, as has the representation of landscape as a gendered experience. 

 

'I have developed this approach of a double time of image making, drawing parallels between the speed and instant of the photograph/digital image and the economy of information technology. The reconstruction of these images through touch and the labour of the hand, signals the return to a more primitive and bodily experience.'

Grid experimentation crack/back photos 2

from the images i took the other day i have been experiementing with different sequencing and grid structures to see what creates an astetic effects. 
Of course it depends on how big a structure i would want to achieve, it also depends on how many images i wanted to include. 
I also have experimented using 'blank' images. photos of the ground without anyones feet in. 
Below are a few examples of experiments with grids using the images ive already taken. 

Here i created a 3x3 grid using equal devisions. But with double the space at the edges Here i alternated the direction of the people in the images. The top level i had to improvise as i didnt have enough images to complete another rung. 
this suggests that i need to increase the volume of images i take in the locations to achieve a large amount of images to choose from. i really like the repetition of the images here and this its very effective. 

i also like the idea of the 'empty' image between the top row so i thought id experiment with alternating that also to which i achieved this effect:

Here the images are more broken up which suggests a less heavy 'flow' of pedestians. I do like it as it adds more of a pattern to the images however i dont think it is as effective as the first grid i created. Maybe just by encorperating just one or two 'blank' squares it would add abit extra to the flow, and yet still capture that freeness of the first grid rather then the very formal structure on the second, with making sure that the padestrians are walking in the correct directions. Here i used equal devisions all around though in comparison i think i prefer the image above with the extra space around the outside of the overall square. 


I also experimented abit with the idea of more of a rectangular structured grid. While it is alright i think with the use of squared off images i think that the use of a square grid is more appropriate.

I like the fact that i managed to keep the framing almost the same for every image by keeping the camera in the same location. As for the structure of my grids, if they are to be printed on white paper the external width will not need to be worried about right now. I also showed my images to a a range of people to get there opinions on what works about the structure of the images in the grids. Many actually said they prefered the idea of a more random structure with the input of some blank squares, They also said that any more images may make the grid too complicated and take away from some of the detailing on the images.  I will take this into concideration when creating the next amount of grids.


It will be interesting to see how this would work out in comparison to more photos in different locations.  which is what i shall be experimenting with next.

'crack/back' photos 2

While waiting for a friend to meet me to go somewhere, i desided to experiement with the idea of the stepping on a crack idea. while the other approach was a good idea and i did like the effect i got with the left and right leg diptics, i wanted to experiment more with abit more of a documentry approach. This time using the camera on my ipod touch *better quality then the one on my phone* as well as having more variety with the techniques and ability to adjust the whitebalence, iso, ect then on my phone. It also allowed me to get images on the street without being noticed by the subjects, or without the reaction from people which is helpful for what i wanted to achieve. Here i took an image everytime someone walked past. in which i wanted to see what percentage actually stepped on a crack. i decided to use the 'hipstermatic app' which allows me to use different film types and lens filters on the images that im taking. i experimented abit with different lenses and films to achieve the effect that i think works best with the images. 
Below are the images that i got using the b/w black keys extra grainy film and the lucifer VI lens. 

an example of the larger images are here:

I really like the effect the lens and film has on the image itself. Its slightly grainy, but that is expected of of a camera phone style camera. The square cut of the images fit well with the idea of using these images in a grid style. The images are a highly contrasted black and white which is my personal preference when it comes to black and white. These images just have a very striking feel to them. I also like the fact that it was pretty easy for me to capture the same framing in multiple images without a tripod which is good as it stops me drawing attention to myself.  The lines are abit part of these images and it allows the audiences eye to focus in on the point at which the foot at the lines cross.  I also like the way to which movement is captured in the images with slight blurring. 


I want to experiment more with this process and get together a large collection of images, as well as experimenting with different grids to see what works best.

Wolfgang Tillman exhibition

While on a trip to the Nottingham contempory i saw the work of Wolfgang Tillman, While his work is not visually linked to my work it was interesting to see a person using a collection of sepourate, seemingly unrelated images in a collection of visually intreging images. His work seemed to have a  mockumentry feel, creating fake style newspaper clippings alongside a very large scale single conceptual image.The images were all laid out on glass covered tables and it had a very unusal feel to them. I really do need to look into more artists that uses this idea of a collection of different themes under one heading. I find ive taken on alot of work for myself but i feel in the long run ill be alright and manage to get a collection of interesting and visually intreguing images together.