red riding hood project

 ideas for boys bed room

Commission

the commission :




research

Zachery fein

The study of abandonment must convene upon Detroit at one point or another. No other city in the United States has undergone such a dramatic level of population decline, abandonment, and urban decay over the past few decades. As many of the posts under the research section of this site convey, industry in America has toppled and left behind an amazing amount of abandoned and decaying architecture. Detroit, the nation’s most industrious city, reflects this in a unique way. The failing industry was met with, social, racial, and political tensions. Hundreds of thousands of people fled the city, and today the population is less than half of what it was in 1950.

looking at Zachary fein's work it has a real sense of clear abandonment and that if his photographs were words they would be quite dark a pessimistic. but i feel his work i feel has a connection with what i want do do for my project. his photos are buildings just left not bothered with and will just be left as no one has a care for them and thats just how i felt when i was told about my father .





Ricarda roggan






Ricarda Roggan began her career by photographing spare constellations of furniture in dank, grey rooms, or piled up in isolated dark spaces underneath transparent plastic tarps. There has always been a sense of forlorn isolation in her still lifes, beginning in those cramped rooms in which she took great care to place old tables and chairs in just the right arrangements. 

 


sophie gerrard

taryn simon

 concept

for this project i would like to investigate the notion of abandonment, from a young age i have thought that one man who my mother had lived with throughout my life was my real father around this time last year i found out that this was untrue which sent me into a strange sense of abandonment. For this project i would like to explore this through the themes of waste, i have now met my real father and i thought it would be interesting to place his abandoned waste and objects out of in a abandoned environment ,these objects will be gathered from my real father over a course of a month, for me it is important for the enviroment in which i photograph to have no connection to the objects, the reason for this is i want the objects to almost show a sense of abandonment, like the environments themselves, i want the waste objects to be incased both metaphorically and physically in abandonment.



some ideas of locations that are abandoned

Seminar 2 - " the commission - 'the portrait issue'

Finlay Mackay 'Changing Pace'

the way Mackay has shot the image in question 'Changing Pace' Mackay seems to be on the same level as his subject. the lighting of the subject says a lot about what the photographer wanted to say about his subject matter he almost gives David Weir a higher stature. the depth of field is sharp showing where he has come from, The track behind him could show just how far he has come not only in the race but in his life, the use of flash hightens the subject the colours start to almost have a hyperreal quality.

Toby Glanville 'Actual Life'

When comparing Glanville to Mackay it's a very different composition it appears more subtle in concept and in lighting. I believe that the image was taken with a film camera, when looking at the concept it seems to me to be mainly about the way we see and how people view us. it's done using natural lighting which give the image an almost dead pan quality. the way the image is cropped shows the environment in which the subjects works.

Ulrich Gebert 'Freischneider'

In this image the position of the camera is level with the subjects face he appear to be a construction worker  . the depth of field say to me that this is not about the environment is which he works unlike Glanville's subject matter it's more to do with the individual worker. the lighting seems to be almost be a combination of Mackey and Glanville images it reinforces the subject importance with in his work. with the direction of his head he seems to not be fasied  by the photographer and his camera.

Assessment/Presentation 'Environment'

task two

footsteps

environment evaluation

Assessment/Presentation 'The Object and Body'

object evaluation

For my object evaluation I looked at my cousin being sent out to Iraq. This project was hard for me not in a personal way but in a way in what I didn’t seem to grasp what asked of me for the project and in all honesty. Where I was struggling with this project it wound me up and put me in a situation on witch I was reluctant to do it and wasn’t to interested about it but I swung together a concept and was going to shoot a photograph of a gas mask a army knife and a live grenade but for obvious reasons, I couldn’t bring the knife and the live grenade to uni so I had too shoot the gas mask on its own but after I had shot the mask I felt that it looked good on its own and gave a swift message of men at war. When it come to printing the photograph in color I knew it was going to be a hard photograph to print as I have never printed in color before. but after a few days I got the print just right and was very happy with my outcome and this project was a real learning curve for me and I think I will go about things much differently and will try to be more interested in the projects I may not like the look of and make it in to a good project by exploring my possible ideas.

body research

test strip

final  digital edits

final analogue print

body evaluation

In my body project i have been looking a range of different photographic artist using the method of portraits and all of the artists iv chosen have led me in all sorts of directions and have given me a range of ideas and forms I can give to this project. picking my concept was hard considering I couldn’t use a subject I knew  so finding someone random and who works with people with learning difficulties was very hard so I explored the university looking for LSA’s I didn’t know of and ask them if I could photograph them was very hard for me and I lack confidence to ask people questions especially when iv never met them. But with a little help I approached a man called Nigel who is a LSA here and he was glad to be my subject for my shoot. In my shoot I wanted the subject half dark and half light to show that there are two sides to the subject because I also wanted to shoot LSA’s who have to deal with disability’s in there personal life too. I felt the lighting I had chosen had worked fantastically with my concept when it come to developing the negs and printing my photographs I was so happy of my outcome and seeing the photo on the paper finished the idea off beautifully.