I came across this page one night and found the amount of detail created in such a small object was really inspiring. It is incredible how delicate each individual piece looks. On this website it mentioned how Ghetti can take years to finish just one piece, this again I found inspiring of how much time and effort the artist took in perfecting each piece.
(These images were taken from: http://www.oddee.com/item_97204.aspx )
I chose to put this video by P!nk up on my blog for a number of reasons. One of those reasons being I found the location and set up of the different scenes visually interesting and surreal. I also particularly like the unusual looking characters creating a nightmare-like quality to the video which is filled with chaos as it is. As “P!nk” is always dancing/going in one direction I find the video flows very easily. From watching this video it has made me want to work in a more controlled enviroment to what I do now by being location specific and setting up my own scenes to photograph.
(Video taken from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdjtqu3XK4U )
The images shown in the slideshow were taken on my iphone on an early morning walk around the area I live.
As I missed a talk by Marten Lange in my university before christmas I decided to look at some of his work as I am unfamiliar with it. During my research I came across a series of images by Lange called “Anomalies” which I really took an interest to. It is the simplicity of each piece that makes each piece so powerful and effective, this being emphasised by the images being in black and white. I have only written a small amount as I feel the images capture attention and speak for themselves.
(The images shown in the slideshow were taken from: http://martenlange.com/ )
As a photographer I find I am very interested in taking images of architecture and finding interesting angles of buildings and structures making them look unusual. So when I came across a book of images by Maurizio Galimberti called “New York Polaroids…” I was blown away by his series images of buildings that almost appeared to be dancing down the images.
These are images I find very visually interesting and beautiful to look at. I feel at some point in my personal work I hope to experiment with this idea and effect. I also like the idea of using polaroids as once the image is shot the control over how it develops is out of the photographers hand, with no real way of editing it (apart from with bleaches etc as Galimberti also experiments with in this book).
(The images above were taken from the following website as I did not have access to a scanner: http://www.mauriziogalimberti.it/?p=289&lang=it )
“The Way Home” is a project I have recently been exploring over the christmas period for my university course. As we were told not to take the title too literally I decided to focus on the word “home”. This is because, as I have now moved away from my hometown of Maesteg to live in Swansea. It has come to my attention on occasional visits back home how run-down Maesteg has become with abandoned shops and buildings. Growing up in this small town I had this idea in my head of how wonderful the town was. It always seemed full of shops and people buzzing around and children playing. It was a hard thing for me to overcome this idea and realise that it is the complete opposite to this and almost seems like a ghost town.
For this project I wanted to create a set of images that showed this saddness that has overcome the Llynfi Valley, of the forgotten buildings and empty shop windows. I chose to do this through reflections, many of the shop windows I have used to take these images not only show the decay of a town through boarded up windows and such but also shows the small minority of the shops that are still hopeful and open. Thinking back, I think I included the open shops in the images as I wanted to convey an idea of hope within the images as I still believe that Maesteg can become successful again as it once was. I am pleased with how they turned out and think they convey my ideas to the viewers clearly.
The images shown in the slideshow are my own.
I have included this film in my blog as I find it has certain scenes where the angles of the scenes are visually interesting and like how they play with this. There is also an element of humour I find in this film which always makes me want to shoot a short film. This is something I hope to experiment with in the future.
(video taken from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz0wNN6L_jg)
Before Christmas I attended a talk in the university by the photographer Peter Dench. I enjoyed listening to him talk with such enthusiasm about certain projects and the funny stories that sometimes came up from taking certain images. His main interest for subject in his work was “drunk Brits”, He spoke and gave tips on how to take such images without really being seen as a threat to any of the public which is something I found quite interesting as in my own work I find when walking around streets with a camera in my hand people tend to avoid me.
The work he showed I liked very much and found elements, such as his work with colour, very beautiful. Another key point I liked about the majority of Dench’s images was the fact that the people in his work appeared to be captured in a natural state and were not staged, this give the images an obviously real feeling to the viewer and find it is something you can then relate to. I also enjoyed looking at his images as to many of them there was a certain element of humour that came with them, again I think a reason for this is the viewer finds themself thinking how true and real this “scene” in the image is and feel as if they have seen it happening.
(The images above were taken from: http://www.peterdench.com/#/summeruk/Carry_on_England209 )
During a recent session in university we watched a BBC documentary on the Photographer Sally Mann. This was a photographer that I knew the name but was not familiar with her work. After watching this documentary I feel inspired more than ever to go out and photograph the world. It interested me seeing how she achieved creating these images using glass negatives using an old large camera. I also found it interesting how she managed to take the most grotesque subjects, like decaying human bodies, and find beauty in them.
Quite recently a friend of the family lost his father, when sorting through his fathers belongings he came accross a box full of old photography equipment and thought I may find some interest in them. When going through this box I came across a Kodak Brownie Model 1 along with a number of boxes of glass negatives.
It was the glass negatives that really grabbed my attention as the images captured on them were very interesting as they raged from simple snapshots of a woman playing with a dog to soldiers lined up.
These digital images of the glass negative do not do them justice. I think another reason I find these images so interesting to look at, is because I do not know the name or anything about the person who took them and why. They are completely anonymous.
Seeing these also made me wonder how the process was invented and how and when it was used. I plan on researching this topic soon as it interests me greatly.
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