Final Contact Sheet for Task 1

This is the Final Contact sheet for my Body Task 1, the negatives are thin/ underexposed which means there might be some issues making prints. To improve I need to use a slower shutter speed to allow more light to expose the film such as 1/30 and below because this was low indoor light. I have highlighted the negatives I wish to make prints from.

Idea for Object

My idea for the Object project is gong to be about How ineffective the Criminal Justice system is in this country and how the system wastes time by lengthy court cases and processing people into the system.  This issue has had a lot of media attention in recent months/years and also I feel strongly about both subjects. Personally I think that currently the system just does not work and more emphasis should be focused on being more time efficient to deliver swifter justice. Also I and my Family have had personal experience with the legal and courts system. 

Contextual Research 

Edmund Clark 

Tayrn Simon 

In this series "The Innocents" Simon documents the stories of Individuals who served their time in prison for crimes they did not commit. This questions photography's function as a credible eyewitness. Simon photographed these men at sites that had particular significance to their wrongful convictions. These sites were either the supposed scene of the crime, arrest or alibi. Simon confronts photography's ability to blur truth and fiction that can have lethal consequences. This series has a really dark and unsettling feeling to it which makes the viewer engage with the photograph more and when looking at the series I have a deep feeling of empathy towards the men for the injustice that had befallen them. Simon relates to my project because of the context behind her work about Justice not being delivered. 

Articles 

The Independent:  

Is the criminal Justice System Fair?

The Telegraph:

"Old Lags" will help prisoners to turn their back on crime

The Guardian:

The Criminal Justice System is in Crisis

Task 2 Morley's Bakery Final Shoot

This is the Final Shoot for my Task 2:


Morley s

 Generally, I am happy with the result of the shoot, I am particually drawn to images 13 and 14 because of the evenness of the lighting and the pose.  For my Final Submission I am going to print either Images 13 or 15. If I were to re-shoot I would choose to shoot my subjects in the same position as "Image 15" to get a more even lighting because I find the others to have a mix of bright and dull lighting.

Medium Format Test Broad Oak Shoot

This is the Test Shoot for my Colour Landscape:


Broak Oak Test
With this shoot I got some lens flare in a couple of the images which I am disappointed in and is due to shooting on quite a sunny day with no cloud to diffuse the light . I know that what doesn't work in this test is the lighting conditions because it too harsh and it bleaches out the landscape. I need to shoot on an overcast day to get a more evenly lit photographs. What I think is working is the camera height and placing the food on the field and placing food on a plate which I can further develop.

Landscape Artists Research

Reinaldo Loureiro 

Freya Najade

In this series “Strawberries in Winter” Najade photographs Food being grown artificially in greenhouses so that out of season food in available all year round. I find the composition to be central because of the lines created by the rows of produce. The lighting is soft which creates soft shadows. The series gives off a very clinical and clean feeling which emphasizes the nature of plastic fake ness of the produce being grown. 

Medium Format Double Exposure

These are the results of an experimentation with double exposure but using medium format film:


Medium Double Exposure

I am pleased with the results of the experimentation with Double Exposure using a medium format Camera, I need  to keep shooting to play around with the exposures more to get some more experimental tonal ranges.

Double Exposure Test

This is the result of my experimenting with double exposures using 35mm Film:

I am really pleased with the result of this experimentation and I think this is working because I am getting a lot of complex shapes, lines and tones that work well together, so I think this is the way to go. Double Exposure 35mm Test

Shorne Woods

We went on a Location shoot to Shorne Woods where we were asked to complete two photograph tasks, the first was to make two Bechers style photograph of a Building using the large format 5x4 Wista Field Camera:

The second of task was to create a series of images using a medium format camera that represented the themes Frightening, Erotic, Transcendent and Passive 

Erotic

Frightening 

Transcendent

Passive

Rut Blees Luxemburg, Richard Wentworth and Vera Lutter

Rut Blees Luxemburg 

A Modern Project

Black Sunrise

In her work Luxemburg uses a large format Camera to capture cityscapes. She photographs at night because she is interested how the city at night reveals itself and detaches the human presence and use. She also uses long exposures to create these images because the lack of direct light unlike if she was photographing in the daytime . What I most admire about her work is her choice of lighting because it gives a tonal range in her work of Yellows, Oranges and Greens which gives an ambient urban glow. The Camera height she uses can vary from the top image taken from high up to the bottom image taken from a low angle

Richard Wentworth 

Wentworth is traditionally a Sculptor who is focused on the idea of the alteration and transformation of everyday objects and  made a series called "Making Do and Getting By" where he photographed everyday objects that were left in the street often abandoned like rubbish. I think the use of soft cloudy/ overcast lighting further stimulates the feeling of isolation of the objects. The objects also act as an impracticable and odd replacements for the standard practical objects that would be used. In terms of camera height most is looking down at the objects.

Vera Lutter

Lutter creates this series by turning a room in her apartment into a life size pinhole camera and directly exposing the outside world onto wall sized sheets of photographic paper. She is interested in architecture in New York City where she was living at the time and by light and the city's presence. By photographing like this she maintains the purity of the photograph in it's simplest form without alteration or reproducing the images. I think her work is complete contradiction of the process of photography by not altering what the camera actually see before we turn a negative into a positive image.

When comparing the photographers in terms of aesthetics I find that Luxemburg's work is intimidating due to the choice of working with ambient/street lighting where with Wentworth's work I find to be intimate and inviting due to the use of soft lighting and with Lutter's work I find to be unsettling and scary due to the choice of keeping the photograph unchanged. What I find similar between Luxemburg and Lutter's work is that you get a lot of detail in the photographs and the shapes and lines are very similar. Comparing Wentworth to Luxemburg and Lutter, Wentworth focuses on the intimate details by only looking at objects within the space of an urban environment while the other two don't really focus on that much singular detail.

Broad Oak Test Shoot

Last Weekend I went up to Broad Oak Farm Shop for some Test Shots for my Landscape Project. I thought the results were good because I like the space because the produce field is completely bare this time of year which relates well with my Idea about Human Consumption of Food. I shot a roll of both Black and White and Colour to compare. With the roll of colour film I decided to photograph some of the produce in the farm shop to show how our food gets from the field to the shop.



Broadoak Contact Broadoak Colour

Unit Tutorial: The Environment

After my Unit Tutorial my Tutor advised me to keep taking test shots for different lighting situations for my final shoots and to try to keep my work to a sketchbook and scan it in to improve how I work and the development of ideas and to find photographers by myself. She also advised me to look at these photographers Hannah Collins and Benoit Aquin.

 Hannah Collins

The Fragile Feast is a series where Collins photographs the origins of Ingredients of thirty dishes used by Michelin Star Chef Ferran Adrià. I think that the layout of the photographs work well because the two photographs compliment each other because one photographs shows the ingredient in detail and then alongside a photograph of the landscape it came from. I like the shifting lighting between the different photographs in the series from harsh sunlight to soft overcast light because I believe it strengthens the message about where we get or food from / it being shipped from abroad. 

Benoit Aquin 

In this series "China Dust Bowl"  Aquin documents the impact of overexploitation of arable land in China. This has caused 18% of China to become these barren sand dunes. At a first look at this series I thought that this was in the American West or Africa due the desert-like conditions typically found there but once I found out it it was China I was quite shocked and that Is what Aquin wanted his audience to feel when looking at the work. I noticed that the land and the sky seem to merge because of the windswept sand bleaching the sky, this is reinforced by the hazy nature of the landscape. There almost is an element of beauty in the destruction of the landscape because of the yellow colour. 

Idea for The Commission Part 1: The City

My idea for "The City" is going to be about how the city is fragmented due to the presence of man made and natural elements. I want to explore this idea because I am interested how man made and natural elements interact within a space. I wish to explore this idea through the use of Multiple exposure photography which emphasises this notion of fragmentation.

Alexey Titarenko 

In this very politically agenda series "Nomenklatura of Signs" Titenrenko represents the injustice suffered by the Russian People because of  the totalitarian regime of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The series was created by overlapping of several negatives, traditional photographs, individual objects and installations. I think that the images chosen to be overlapped work well because of the complex lines and shapes created. Text also works well within this series and unusual angles because they are visually stimulating again because of different textures and architecture use.  

Yenny Huber

The series "Urban Rooms" (Top 3 images) is a global project about capturing the ethereal beauty and the overwhelming loneliness of  urban space that surrounds us. This project visibly confronts the loneliness present in large cities. In this context, loneliness refers to the emptiness within as well as the physical and psychological distance between people. By overlapping the same and different images within the same frame Huber separates each of her images into sections where the views looks at the image by the different sections   also I admire the use of street lights in this series because it gives I nice sickly glow to them.

The Series "48 Stunden/ Hours" (Bottom Two Images) explores the many faces of a city, its diversity and contradictions, it looks not only at places of wealth and prosperity but also those than have been neglected and forgotten. It engages with the deep complexity that is embedded within every centre of history and culture. I admire the strong a vibrant colours produced by using a Lomography Camera because it draws the attention of the user and helps the viewer engage with it more. 

Hans Malm

Our Planets Continents are in constant motion, Geologists predict that within 250 million years virtually all landmasses with merge into one super continent, in this series "Forecast" Malm travels all over the world, shoots a roll of film in one city and then rewinds the film and shoots the same roll in a different city in a different country. The Resulting double exposures shows different cities, countries and continents merged together. This series is an attempt at showing the future- although this in itself goes against the very nature of photography. I find his double exposures to be quite subtle and contradictory  dreamlike because of the simpleness of the chosen location to shoot but dreamlike because of the complex shapes, lines and tones created. 

Lee Friedlander 

Friedlander photographs the street in car mirrors which makes the city seem fragmented, this is further backed up how he splits his images up through using a frame within a frame which makes the viewer look at the pieces individually rather than as a whole image.

Jason Evans

In the series titiled NYLPT, evans photographs everyday life on the streets of London, New York, Paris and Toyko and combines the photographs in an usunual way trhough double exposure. I find theese images to be very visually interested and complex which I think has this chatoic theme to the work as well the use of under and overexposing different elemments to create these double exposures.

Contextual Research

•Green Belt Land cover 13% of land area in the UK
•Today the Green belt is 32,000 hectares smaller than It was in 2003
•Nick Bowels the Planning Minister for the Government says that 1,500 square miles of Open Countryside will be needed to build housing to keep up with the demand.
•The Urban Population of the UK is nearly 80%