This final outcome is called 'Being Two' focusing on the day from start to finish in the life of a two year old boy. These images were narrowed down by 535 photographs and editing to highlight aspect as well as blur out some parts to provide a hidden aspect due to people not generally seeing the ins/outs of everything a child does. These 19 photos focus on the child and show his playfulness and him viewing the world around him. I am really happy with my outcome, I would also like to continue doing more photography based projects but perhaps become a bit more explorative I believe my earlier experimentation showed me ways I can manipulate images and feel this has been very helpful in becoming more outgoing explorative within my work.
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This project is called 'Hands' it focuses on a two year olds hands and allows people to get an insight on all the things children touch. Although this does not have as much of an obvious narrative as my other idea I feel it's relevance was worthy of a outcome as I feel it shows something that not many people focus on and that's how much a child develops from birth and this is a crucial stage to their learning.
One artist I found inspiring for this project was Sally Man, her work 'Family Pictures' captures the beauty of her children in the form of 16 black and white images. This photographer was one who showed the openness of her family and captured images that would be considered quite private to her family and shows their beauty for the world to view. I want to capture the innocence of children just like in Mans work and being that Rex (my muse) has seen an only child up until three weeks ago I would focus on his interaction with his parents as on an everyday basis he doesn't have contact attention from other child like in Mans work where she has three children. Another photographer I found was Jock Sturges, known for portraits focusing on nude woman/adolescents. Most of his work is in black and white can capture naturists, I found these particularly beautiful especially the one below names 'Fanny Montalivet France' (1995) his work focues on the beauty of the female form at all ages and has claimed that "There's probably not a photographer alive who cares less about clothes than I do". He also has collections of his work in the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as in New York, Switzerland and Berlin. I believe his photographs were very influential In the aspect of making sure I capture my nephew in the right aspect and capture his beauty. Looking into everyday photographs, I thought 'The Humans Of New York' was very similar, focusing on people in NY and their stories. I feel these capture people in their everyday lives and we find out something about someone we didn't know existed, this was very insightful to how everyone has a very different life. This has opened my eyes to the many lifestyles that exist and made me think about how capturing peoples lives are very important as it shows a journey. I feel researching this helped me come to my decision to capture a two years olds life as its simplicity compares to the chaos many adults have to deal with.
These 535 photos are my complete collection, I have taken these focusing on his hands as well as things he does in his everyday life. I will narrow down these images to two final outcomes, one album 'Hands' which solely focuses on what a two year olds touch, child development learnt from Psychology lectures I came to understand the theory that children from 1-3 learning income focuses on touch, as well as learning Freud theory of psychosexual development where the child's main concerns are with the process of elimination also known as the anal stage. The second outcome will be labelled 'being two' showing a narrative from day to night in the form on 19 photos, showing the day to day things a two year old does starting from waking up by to story time.
As my first part of experimentation I decided to record my day, focusing on what I do every Sunday. From these photos I believed recording someone's day showing images of them as well as things their doing would create a more interesting narrative as it shows different aspects of someone's life. As I cannot easily record myself whilst recording the various thing I am doing I have decided to record my two year old Nephew instead, looking at what he does in his life this is an aspect of human interaction I have never captured and feel like it will give me a new perspective on peoples lives. Working in a pair I was given the word 'Guilt' from this word I created a six sequence narrative. These photos represented the feelings one would feel when becoming unfaithful in this case a relationship. First Photo- shows underneath a bed, with items you'd typically see when two people would come home after a night out. Showing alcohol, items of clothing and a condom. Second Photo- is an empty fosters pint with lipstick smudged on the edge, something that usually represents sexual pleasure. Third Photo- is a female in bed, the effect showing the hair allows people to see the gender has typically girls have longer hair, especially when their shown in this context. Forth Photo- this photo shows a male leaving a room, we can see this from the way his foot is angled and body positioned. He is also in lounge wear also can be considered pyjamas. Fifth Photo- next shows the male in the bathroom standing over the sink, it shows a close up of his phone with an incoming call from 'my baby' showing he possibly has a girlfriend. Sixth Photo- The last image focuses on texts from the same caller asking about his whereabouts as well and continues to have incoming messages that we can see are rather angry. These six photos show the sequence what will have people questioning the meaning behind them and the make them question the possible 'word'. Brief
You have been given a word, selected at random. Your task is to create a photographic narrative sequence of exactly six still images that tell a story based on the theme, feeling or idea that the word inspires. It is up to you to imagine that story. You will need to show a sequence of events in order to create a narrative. The composition of each image is very important in communicating your narrative and associated actions. Use a mind map to explore the possibilities. Create storyboards to help plan your images. You can use whichever items, people or contexts you think are appropriate to tell your story. Carefully consider the visual language of the items, environment or parts of the body that you choose to include – each will bring it’s own messages and connotations. This one day workshop considered taking old photos, editing them psychically then re editing using software. The above image was originally black and white, I used orange stickers to outline the group of friends dancing and to see how the use of geometry could integrate into the photo. I also added colour to them on their lighter sections of clothes to draw attention to their outfits. This experimentation allowed me to play around with different effects and using psychical editing with Photoshop editing. I continued using shapes to fill in the environment, focusing on different shades I'd expect to of seen a coloured version of this photo. I really like the use of shapes in my work and feel I could use this technique in the future for other work. Possibly integrating my Zine project styles with this method. I decided to use the reflective shine I captured when taking this photo to create a darker photo. Using highlights to capture people in the windows along with manipulating the weather. Using ways to capture the photograph an existing photo allowed me to think about the possible outcomes with cameras. Maurizio Anzeri is an artist I found who using shapes within her work, she focuses on manually manipulating the images by using sewing techniques. I decided to use her similar style by focuses on following the pre-existing separation of parts of the image to create a more textured image. I think this technique is interesting and would like to use this in future work to create photograph manipulation.
Experimental Photography’
Choose one or a selection of the options below and take as many photos as you can. Edit and select your images to create a visual narrative. Tell us a story that is imaginative, strange, unusual, scary, exciting, informative, weird or funny. We would like to see you experiment! Choose one or more of the following themes: 1. Stories about you: Truth or Dare What can you tell us about you in 24 pictures taken over 24 hours? Take a picture of yourself every ½ hour or so that you are awake. Record your face, what you see or what you are doing. You can also record what you can hear. Will you show us the real you or an imaginary one? Truth or lie, how will we know? Push the boundaries of fact and fiction. What will you dare to tell or imagine? 2. Stories about place: Find one location where the scene varies and visit the location about 10 times per day over the course of a week (or whatever seems appropriate). Photograph the same location in different weather conditions, different light, and using your new creative ideas each time you go. Consider using props or adding something that adds drama or humour to the work. 3. Stories about objects: Photograph a series of objects in different scenarios and put them into a sequence that tells a story. Consider objects that belong together (for example tea cups and spoons) or objects that would not normally relate to each other. You could also look at objects that are the same but have different forms or purposes depending on their context (for example chairs). Which objects will you choose and how will you compose them in such a way as to form a narrative? 4. Stories about other people: Choose a character and then take a set of photographs that tell us a story about them. It could be about a specific event or simply a means of communicating who they are. You can create an entirely fictional character or choose someone else, alive or dead, who fascinates you. How will be recognise the person or learn something about them without you actually including them in the picture? Hand in: 1. A selection of photographs that tell your story. You decide how many it takes. We also want you to present them in an imaginative way. They can be still or animated, composed within a book or presented as separate pieces, but think carefully about your choice. 2. A sequence of images that tell the story you have chosen. A minimum of 6, no more than 24. |
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