17.12.12 University work- The Collector

The Collector

This university project expores the lives of people with large collections and aims to shed light on the types and scales of collections out there!

17.12.12 Update!

In anticipation for my new project I thought I'd better share with you the photographers in my research who's work I have found inspiring. I haven't been posting recently as my project work has taken over my life but this post 'Julian Germain' as his series 'For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness' was important to the project and the series is beautiful aesthetically and really helped my project get out of a pretty deep rut. This projects different poses and interesting details reminded me that documentary work is about 'seeing' and along with the advice of Paul Wenham Clarke (a tutor at AUCB) I came to a very big conclusion with my work. 

This conclusion (though I feel I already knew this and hadn't admitted it) was that my work was suffering through lack of technical skill still. On my course we've been barely taught the essentials, so with PWC's advice I went out and brought more lighting equipment to play with over Christmas. Hopefully my camera will be repaired and ready for testing so I can get a solid lighting technique as I need this so I can concentrate on taking a great portrait! Along with writing my dissertation, passing my driving test and general Christmassy things!

14.11.12 Annie Leibovitz’s ‘Les Misérables’ Character Portraits

 These character portraits are the stunning work of Annie Leibovitzs for Vogue. I am so excited by this film and can't wait to finally see it!

15.10.12 Ali Taptik

While researching my current project I found the work of  Taptik and was very inspired by Kaza ve Kader, the project shows uncanny beauty of the gloomy and dark frames and the fragmented narration throughout the project which depicts detailed fragments of accidents that the city unfolds. Unfortunately his work does not apply to my current project work, but I wanted to put it here anyway!

10.10.2012 Giulio Sarchiola

Giulio Sarchiola

After viewing his Clinical Zone documentary project I also came across Sarchiola’s work Androids which  won the first prize at the Canon Young Photographers Award 2010. The portraits in this series are simply gripping. The lighting and dead pan view used in every shot has wonderful consistency and highlights every little detail of the image. These kind of images awakens the nerd in me and I find them infinitely fascinating!

 

 

04.10.2012 Giulio Sarchiola

Giulio Sarchiola's work first came to my attention after some surgery I had to have over the summer. In my disabled state, living on my parents sofa and surviving off painkillers I had plenty of time to surf the web! Clinical Zone, which was awarded the best portfolio at the Festival FotoGrafia of Rome 2009 triggered an instant interest within me. The similarity of the sterile location and the eerie feeling you get when in a hospital was cleverly conveyed in this interesting documentary piece that feels so familiar yet very compelling. I find it very refreshing to find documentary projects which aren't focused around poverty and war and actually relate in some small way to a particular situation or feeling in one person, I have always felt that, like in music, a photograph has the ability to connect to all types of people who can the read and relate the piece to their own emotions and Clinical Zone had this effect on me.

03.10.2012 Summer of Ups and Downs

With a five month summer and no blog posts I have been slacking slightly! But although I've reverted back to photography being a personal and indulgent pass time, I've had plenty of personal hurdles I've had to jump! Though I've had some wonderful experiences visiting friends, going to the theatre, the Olympics and purchasing a new lens for the new term back to the AUCB. Term has started and I'm back to being creative and producing work on tap for constant criticism! Well almost! 

For my last year I aim to be extra creative and completely proactive! 

22.06.12 Carne Griffiths

A mixture of human emotion and an appreciation of nature, these prints by Carne Griffiths caught my eye in the online magazine Candid. Using an unusual mixture of ink, tea and brandy he paints these beautiful images, which he explains as “emotional connections” and “invisible lines”. Although I don’t like to buy into this type of overly conceptual thinking I can appreciate the beauty of his work.