TARGETS
Make sure that your analysis goes into more depth. Perhaps you could include 'artist and me' sections where you can compare your work to the photographer you are taking inspiration from.
Take the time to visit the best location for your photographs and take plenty of photographs whilst, at the same time, avoid being repetitive.
Continue to explore alternative ways to work with your photographs like the collage you created.
Make sure that your analysis goes into more depth. Perhaps you could include 'artist and me' sections where you can compare your work to the photographer you are taking inspiration from.
Take the time to visit the best location for your photographs and take plenty of photographs whilst, at the same time, avoid being repetitive.
Continue to explore alternative ways to work with your photographs like the collage you created.
Pinterest board
First ideas for fragments.
Photography exhibition
Whilst it's useful for you to have taken photos in the exhibition, it would be much better if you found the images online to upload to your Weebly. You should also use the text you photographed to help you write about the exhibition. Don't present the images from the exhibition in a slide show. Present the images next to the text addressing the points above.
First response to Fragments
Intentions- how does this link to the theme, Fragments?
These photos link to the theme of fragments as they are close up, focusing on sections of water.
In order to improve my photos, I need to go to different locations when taking a set of photos rather than the same section in the same place every time.
Patrick Cornillet
Patrick Cornillet is a French painter. He was born in 1968. His painting are very realiastic and almost look like a photograph. His painting are very realistic and look almost like photographs. His work investigates issues concerning the ugliness of modern architecture and the environment. He draws buildings or parts of buildings without the context of their environment.
Building Fragments
Include all of your image pre-editing. Use a gallery or slide show.
WWW: Something that went well was that I was able to get a section of the buildings alone, removing the other parts of it
EBI: Something I could have improved on was touching up on the extra bits of the building that was removed and erasing it completely
EBI: Something I could have improved on was touching up on the extra bits of the building that was removed and erasing it completely
Mauren Brodbeck
Mauren Brodbeck was born on the 19th April, 1974. Brodbeck lives and works in Geneva. Mauren says "I get my inspiration from the every day life from the banality of things and how they can clash from what comes inside of me'' She says she focuses on certain themes such as identity, memory, belonging and also on subject related to women and expression, intimacy and power.
Before Editing
What was your intention? What success criteria will you follow to achieve images like Brodbeck?
My intention for these set of photos was to make sure that the whole building I was going to focus had a clear shot in the camera lens so when it was edited, the whole building would be captured and changed to imitate Brodbeck’s work.
Edits
WWW: I was able to achieve covering up the main parts of the building, mimicking Mauren Brodbeck's photos.
EBI: To improve my edits, I could refine the edges on the buildings more, making them neater as some bits aren't filled in.
EBI: To improve my edits, I could refine the edges on the buildings more, making them neater as some bits aren't filled in.
Anastasia Savinova
Anastasia Savinova was born in 1988, near the Ural mountains. She is now based in Sweden, creating architectural masterpieces through digital processing. Savinova's work is constantly based around the juxtapositions; the house and nature, walking to find new landscapes and digital rendering to create the images, the documented photographs processed together to make something unnatural.
My unedited photos
MY WORK
My edit sums up Muswell hill as it portrays the certain similarities each house embodies. The patterns of bricks and shaping of rooftops. And how when put together, it makes out an almost ordinary looking house.
How does your edit sum up Muswell Hill?
WWW: I was able to merge the different sections of each house together to make it seem like the same house
EBI: I could’ve done more edits of houses
WWW: I was able to merge the different sections of each house together to make it seem like the same house
EBI: I could’ve done more edits of houses
Gallery Visit
I visited a photographers Gallery in London. One of the photographers was called Chris Killip.
Chris Killip worked Harvard university from 1991 to 2017. He passed away on the 13th October 2020. He left school at 16 to work as a trainee hotel manager, while also working as a beach photographerIn 1969. Killip ended his commercial work to concentrate on his own photography. These black and white images, "portraits of Tyneside's working class communities amongst the signifiers of the region's declining industrial landscape", mostly made on 4 x 5 film are now recognised as among the most important visual records of living in 1980s Britain. Gerry Badger describes the photographs as "taken from a point of view that opposed everything stood for"
What are his intentions? It's important that you discuss how he lived within the communities he photographed. How would that affect the photos? Where is your sheet- you should use the work you did in the exhibition to discuss images in more depth. If you don;t have your sheet then you will have to research from scratch.
What are his intentions? It's important that you discuss how he lived within the communities he photographed. How would that affect the photos? Where is your sheet- you should use the work you did in the exhibition to discuss images in more depth. If you don;t have your sheet then you will have to research from scratch.
Christian Thompson was another photographer at the gallery. Thompson was born in 1978, Australia. He is a contemporary Australian artist.Thompson meditated on the relationship between form and performance, and his early works focused on the relationship to the human form. He later moved into photography and video as a means to capture the performative qualities of his textile-based sculptures and elaborate costumes.
Independent Development
Simon Phipps
The photographer I was inspired by is Simon Phipps. Phipps was born in Leeds, 1964. He is a graduate in sculpture from the Royal College of Art and a renowned photographer of post-war modernist architecture. He takes his photos in black and white. Brutalist architecture emerged in the 1950's - UK. It emphasises on materials, texture and constructions.
He looks specifically at Brutalist buildings- what is Brutalist architecture?
He looks specifically at Brutalist buildings- what is Brutalist architecture?
Where are your photos?
Brno Del Zou
Brno Del Zou is a french artist born in 1963. His portraits and bodies, in “Photo-sculptures” or video animations, have toured the planet and inspired many artists. In Brno’s “Photo-sculptures” he uses fragmentations of the body in order to understand it better. He says “Beyond the body itself and its beauty, there is its unity. Fragmenting the body, in this case, doesn’t mean cutting it up in order to dissolve it, it means trying to recompose it in the hope to achieve and create unity, an identity, perhaps the fundamental one, the one that supports all the differences, all the variations, all the points of view, which is saved despite everything, despite the light variations and the positions in the space, resisting any immediate apprehension, multiplying as it wishes, without ever losing this unity without which the body itself could not exist”
Brno Del Zou fits into the fragments theme as he has taken features of a face and zoomed some of the features in and merged each aspect all together. There are fragments of a face.
Brno Del Zou fits into the fragments theme as he has taken features of a face and zoomed some of the features in and merged each aspect all together. There are fragments of a face.
My Work
My intentions for these photos were to be able to collage my sisters face in an abstract way, taking inspiration from Brno Del Zou.
Include the unedited images first.
Edits
WWW: What I did well was I created different sizes making it look optical
EBI: Something I could improve is by doing these photos more digital so they could be more accurate and neat
EBI: Something I could improve is by doing these photos more digital so they could be more accurate and neat
Second Development
My intentions for this set was to collage Mia's facial features digitally so it looks more neat and professional
Original photos
Edited
WWW: I was able to imitate Brno's way of collaging portraits and making certain aspects of facial features stand out
EBI: I could merge different faces together to make a more abstract perception
EBI: I could merge different faces together to make a more abstract perception
Third Development
Where are the original photos?
What was your intention in this set- what did you learn form the last set in terms of photographing, editing and composition.
What was your intention in this set- what did you learn form the last set in terms of photographing, editing and composition.
My intentions for this set was to merge two different faces together, making a more abstract image. From my last set of photos, I learnt how to edit fragments of a persons face and merge each part together in an abstract form. I also learnt that using a bright light is a good lighting for the photos as they are more clear and smooth.
Original photos
Edits
WWW: What I did well was that I was able to successfully merge together different faces, making an interesting contrast
EBI: Something I could improve is to not get the images to blur when zoomed in
EBI: Something I could improve is to not get the images to blur when zoomed in
Final piece
For my final piece, I have been inspired by Juan Manuel Sanibria. Sanabria is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a contemporary artist, part of the new contemporary art movement, pop surrealism and cubism digital(objects which are analysed and broken up and reassembled into an abstract form) By mixing colors, and geometries, with a hyper-realistic painting, Juan Manuel gives us that magical and tragic sensation of what, according to him, is currently happening.
Here is some of his work
Here is some of his work
Original Photos
Edited
Look at the paintings of Juan Manuel Sanabria and create portraits in a similar way using colour blocks or different parts of the body. .
https://jmsanabria.com/
https://jmsanabria.com/
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Annotation Support
Introducing a task:
- In this task I was required to…..
- This task links to the theme, (______) as it shows....
- My intention was to respond to_______ because I wanted to explore....
Subject matter
- The subject I chose to photograph suited the theme as it……
- My composition helped to support my response to the theme by….
- I managed the exposure very well. My ISO / shutter speed / aperture settings were…..
- I prioritised my shutter speed to… (capture movement / blur/ frozen moment)
- I prioritised aperture to manipulate depth of field.
- I used a tripod to avoid camera shake.
- My images express my intentions which were…
Subject matter
- The subject I chose to photograph did not necessarily fit the brief as it was not interesting enough / appropriate / adequately lit…..
- Next time I should go to (a different location), photograph at a different time of day, organise people in advance, think more about my composition so that….. ect
- I did not create enough depth of field / sense of movement. The image is over exposed / underexposed / too blurred.
- Next time I should use a tripod / use a different type of lens (be specific) / experiment with film…
- My images do not show my intentions which were…
- The concept wasn’t clear in my images, I need to make it more explicit by…
- Next time I will consider the work of (a photographer) to inspire a more accurate depiction of what I want to achieve.
- I will experiment further with… (blur / shutter speed / composition)
What do you think the photographer’s intentions are? There may be more than one. ‘PEC’ each intention.
P (Photographer’s name) creates (what type of images? Fantastical, surreal, objective)
E He / she does this by… (describe something in the image)
C He/she wanted us to consider ….
What wider issues is the photographer addressing?
P (Photographer’s name) is considering (is the photographer talking about a bigger issue in photography, society, politics?)
E This is shown by … (describe something in the image)
C The (Photographer’s name) was interested in this issue because (they felt it was relevant to us now…)
How do the materials and techniques used support your photographer’s intentions?
P (Photographer’s name) has used (the darkroom / multiple exposure / film / digital manipulation techniques) in creating this work.
E This creates a ______ effect. (describe something in the image)
C This helps to support (Photographer’s name) point about (showing an identity / hiding a person’s identity / the media / anonymity)