When making a picture story the first thing to do is chooose 3-5 strong images that show the different types of traditional picture story images, such as the establishing shot along with a detailed shot and an enviornmental portrait for example. To make the picture story you need to open up photoshop and open up a white A3 document (New, international paper, A3) and then rotate the image so it is sideways (image, image rotation) and then place the images that you want onto the page. Once you have placed the images onto the page then you can choose how much spacing you would like between the images, and how to place them on the A3 spread. It is made into an A3 spread as this is how it would be presented in a newspaper. When placing these images the establishing shot should usually be the biggest image, and then the other images should be placed smaller around them, also leaving space for a title and text which we will need to leave to leave space for our text that explains about our picture story. When making the title you can use different fonts and layer styles to make the title stand out and make it original. For the picture story i will need to choose a title which explains my picture story. Using rulers when making a picture story will ensure that the spacing inbetween the images will be the same and this will make the picture story more neat. When placing the title it can also be placed over the image however you will need to ensure that if the image is a dark image then the title is lighter so then it stands out. In addition when making a picture story you need to think about how people view and read them, for example when reading in a magazine or in a newspaper people read from left to right, so by usually placing the establishing shot in the left top hand corner it makes it the main focal point of the page, even though it should be because esentially it will be the largest image on the page.
Brainstorm on titles
As my story will be on my mum my title needs to be something that explains our family life at home, or something to do with her anxiety.
There are common elements to picture stories including; title, headline as well a writing captions and headings within your piece. One of the most well-known picture stories is one created by Eugene Smith titled Country Doctor. Nowadays, newspapers are becoming less and less and are faced with competition through the internet, film and cinema. Photographers now have to compete with the media world. The oldest and most well known photographic company is Magnum Photos, often if a photographer is on Magnum they’ve made it in the photographic world.
Deconstructing a Picture Story
every photographer sees things differently so there is no right or wrong was of making your own picture story
there is no set way that a picture story is made
Recurring images
These are the most generic/common images that you would expect to see in a picture story
who is the person? What are they doing? How are they doing it? In what context are they doing it [different shot types/lens’ that the photographer uses telephoto lens – creates a narrow depth of field, wide angle lens. The environment that they are in]
person at work
– this is simply making an image of a person in the work place and in their own working environment
relationship shot
– what is the nature of someones relationship with someone/something? These type of image tends to have more than one person in it showing the relationship between the two subjects in the photograph
detail shot
– gives more layers to the picture story and is often a close up of the little details within the environment that the photographer is in
establishing shot
– this is the largest and most important image. It gives context and tells the spectator what is going on so they have a clear understanding with looking at the very first image. It sets the scene and the mood for the rest of the images within the picture story. These images usually have a strong focal point to draw the spectators attention to exactly what the photographer wants them to see
portraits
– this image is the basic image of a person to show who is being photographed as well as the other shots setting up the environment and the atmosphere of where they are.
environmental shot
– this is the shot that gives the spectator an insight to where the subject is and their surroundings
Eugene Smith – Country Doctor
Eugene Smith was born in 1918 and was an American photojournalist. Smith made photo journalistic images during World War II, the French Equatorial Africa as well as his most famous work following the dedication of an American country doctor and a nurse midwife.
Diana Kim has spent the past 12 years photographing people living on the streets of Hawaii. But her project to humanise homelessness suddenly became very personal when her own father ended up living rough. Kim, a law student, explains how, in an effort to save him, she turned her camera on him.
Atlantus is “a visual and oral exchange of cultures , histories and identities”, this was a project that was done in Jersey and New Jersey to see the connection between the two. This project was between Martin Toft and Archisle. The inspiration behind this project was by the 350th anniversary in 2014 of the naming of the State in New Jersey, USA by Sir George de Carteret who was a Jerseyman. These photographs explore the different cultures in Jersey and New Jersey but also between the people in both places, by comparing them through the images. This project was funded by States of Jersey External Relations which made sure that Martin Toft was able to go to New Jersey to take the photographs. This was a long term project which by the end of it produces a DIY pop-up exhibition. These were displayed on Newspaper where there was 5 different sections which included 5 different stories. This included 80 pages of images, 56 in colour and 5 monochrome ills. With these stories you can unfold the Newspapers and make your own pop-up exhibition where you can display the images where you want them. To do this you need to have two versions of the Newspapers as they are double sided, so when you display the images they create an exhibition.
These images are taken with various approaches, as some of the images are classical documentary images where they have been taken without the person knowing and documenting what is happening but also images from the past to give background to the story. Some of the images are staged images
Your task is to use images from your current personal project and/ or photographs made in response to the JEP exhibition at Jersey Museum brief: Our Story, Half Term: 125 hours seen through a teenager’s lens and produce at least two different designs and picture stories.
Use Tracking Sheets to monitor your progress. You must annotate it and upload onto your blog every Friday!
Blog: Produce a number of posts that show evidence of the following:
Week 2 – 9 Nov – JEP exhibition and responses
1. Exhibition review: Upload image analysis and answers from Task Sheet given to you at the JEP exhibition. Download sheet here: Takeover Exhibition Task.
2. Recording and editing: Upload images from half-term or any other previous shoots and produce contact sheets. Using Lightroom, edit a selection of your 10-12 best photographs. Show experimentation with image adjustments, colour/ B&W and annotate.
3. Evaluation and further development: Reflect on your shoots, project and planning. Have you got enough photographs and variety of images to tell your story and begin to design picture stories next week ? Is anything missing? Think about what you want to achieve, what you want to communicate, how your ideas relate to the themes of FAITH, FAMILY and COMMUNITY? Do you need to provide more contextual studies to develop your ideas, interpret other artists and photographers work? DO YOU NEED TO TAKE MORE PHOTOGRAPHS?You got this week and weekend to do it!
4. Submission to Jersey Museum: Choose a final edit of no more than 3 images that work together as a coherent series with a clear personal identity or visual narrative. DEADLINE: Wed 18th November
Week 9 – 23 Nov – Designing a picture story
1. Research Picture-Stories: Produce a mood board of newspaper layouts and magazine style picture stories. For reference use look at local stories from the JEP as well as international stories from magazine supplements in UK broadsheets newspaper ( e.g. The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Telegraphs, Financial Times etc). Look at also at digital picture stories from the internet (see photo-agency websites: Lensculture, Magnum Photos, World Press Photo, AgenceVU, Panos Pictures. Alec Soth’s LBM Dispatch
Find picture-stories here in this folder: M:\Departments\Photography\Students\Resources\Documentary & Narrative\picture-stories
2. Analysis and deconstruction: Look at the layout of pictures and analyse how individual pictures relate and tell a story according to the construction of a traditional picture-story. Identify what types of pictures are more important than others e.g. which are major (establishing shots) or minor pictures (detail, relationship shot), and which types of portraits are used (formal, informal, environmental and person at work) see Powerpoint: A Traditional Picture Story below for further guidance. Analyse also the use of headline, text and captions to convey and construct a particular meaning or point of view.
3. Headline, text, captions: Think of a creative title and write a selection of headlines that tell your story. Write also an introduction/ abstract that provide further context for your pictures story. Also write captions for each picture: who, what, where, when and put into a new post
4. A3 Page-Spread Designs: Produce at least two different designs/ picture-stories from your photographs. Class tutorial on page design using Photoshop; how to use headlines and major and minor images. Be creative in your layout and experiment with different ways to communicate your message by clever cropping, sequencing, juxta-positioning, typography, use of graphics etc. Start with a rough sketch of how the page might work and begin to lay out pictures, major and minors.
a) Design a traditional newspaper layout b) Design a magazine double-page spread
5. Experimentation: Edit your final layout and designs – make sure you show experimentation in your blog of different design and layout ideas combining images, graphics and typography in a personal and creative manner. Produce at least 3 versions of each design
6. Evaluation: Reflect on your final design ideas and explain in some detail how well you realised your intentions and reflect on what you learned/ What could you improve? How?
7. Presentation: Print, mount and present final designs and other final outcomes, such your best 3-5 images and present as final prints. Save everything in a folder in your name in Image Transfer on Silverstore
NB: Upload any video/podcast to Youtube and imbed in your Blog
Students studying Photography at Hautlieu have been offered an incredible opportunity to be involved in a collaborative project with Jersey Heritage. The opportunity will give students a chance to work behind the scenes with staff at Jersey Museum to curate and mount a pop-up exhibition on Friday 20th November 2015. This experience will provide excellent experience for students interested in pursuing a career in photography and/or museums and art galleries.
Jersey Museum visit: Friday 23rd October 14:00 – 15:20 pm In terms of transportation, We will all meet in reception at 14;00 on Friday 23 Oct to board the coaches that will take us to Jersey Museum. At the end of the school day 15:20 students will be dismissed from site. Make sure you hand in slip with permission to your teacher. NO SLIP NO TRIP!!
It is essential that all students get to see and engage with the images on display from the JEP exhibition at Jersey Museum and in order to facilitate this we have arranged for a whole group visit during lesson 5 on Friday 23rd October. During this visit students will be giving a special talk and tour by museum curator, Lucy Layton and Photo-archivist and historian Gareth Syvret from the Societe Jersiaise.
CABLE CARS RUNNING FROM SNOW HILL STATION UP TO FORT REGENT.
(PIC TAKEN ANYTIME FROM OCTOBER 1971 TO 1972)
(FROM FORT REGENT BOX 5, NEGS IN BROWN ENVELOPE)
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Temps Passe Decked out for Summer 1982
Summer at last! – Locals and visitors alike relax in the sun at the Havre des Pas Pool Fete on Bank Holiday Monday in May 1982
Pic taken Monday May 31st 1982
Ref: 82-1649 neg 7
Eighties exhib chosen
exhib Temps Passe Hanging About For Xmas 1937
Hanging Around: Shopping for the Christmas turkey, this display of festive fowl was pictured at Orviss, at the top of Halkett Street, in December 1937
Pic taken December 1937
Report in JWP 25th December 1937. (This pic also used in 21st December 1990 paper)
From Red file 7, sheet 11, neg 20
(Turkeys)
REF:00775026 chosen
Thirties
Temps Passe Robert Bisson 1988
Writng On The Wall: Island character Robert Chalmers Bisson pictured outside his property “The White Lodge” or “The Retreat” at Mont Cochon in February 1988 (also known as Tekel)
Pic taken Thursday February 4th 1988 at 2pm
Picture: Reg Cridland
Original Ref: 88-367 neg 14
REF:01101901
Eighties exhib chosen
Temps Passe Housewives Protest 1970
On Saturday 20th June 1970, some 30 to 40 housewives, many accompanied by their children, took part in a prices protest march through the town. Banners and placards pleaded their cause, to bring down prices, especially of milk and the cost of living in general and to raise family allowances and the pension. The marchers were led by two policemen through King Street, Queen Street, Bath Street, Beresford Street and Halkett Place to the Royal Square, where Mrs Eileen Pritchard appealed for signatures to the petition they planned to present to the States.
Pic taken Saturday 20th June 1970 at 3pm
Report in JWP 25th June 1970 front page
From Unclassified box 8, neg bag 1513
(Protest march, cost of living)
REF:01846098
Seventies exhib chosen
TASK 1: All Photography Students (both Yr 12s and Yr 13s) will be exploring a photo-assignment over half-term that respond to the existing exhibition – Your Story, Our History: 125 years seen through a JEP lens. It will be expected that students take between 150-250 new photographs over half-term that respond to the brief: Our Story, Half Term: 125 hours seen through a teenager’s lens.
For yr 12s this means that you will be exploring your final assignment: IDENTITY and make some self-portraits. In addition you can also improve other types of portraiture that we have explored in class, such as Environmental and Street Portraiture.
For yr 13s you will continue with exploring your personal stories that relates to the themes of FAITH, FAMILY & COMMUNITY.
TASK 2: All students must produce a number of blog posts that explain how you engaged with the JEP exhibition and what ideas you explored over half-term.
– Upload image analysis and answers from Task Sheet given to you at the JEP exhibition. Download sheet here: Takeover Exhibition Task
– Produce contact sheets from your shoots and edit a selection of your best 8-10 images.
– Show experimentation with image adjustments and annotate.
– Choose a final edit of no more than 3 images that work together as a coherent series with a clear personal identity or visual narrative
DEADLINE: Wed 18th November
For further inspiration see this video: The Story of Jersey
Only the best work produced by students over half-term will be entered for the collaborative project in partnership with Jersey Heritage. This new work will inform your current coursework and would significantly help you achieve more marks as you work towards finishing you current coursework module.
Martin Toft and Gareth Syvret came together at the Jersey photo archive and decided to embark on a project comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences with Jersey and New Jersey. New Jersey was actually named after the small island of Jersey when a British man named James who visited Jersey and was warmly welcomed and treated as an honoured guest before moving to France. The Governor of Jersey at the time was called Sir George Carteret and James wanted to honour him when he found the colony and decided to name the State New Jersey. Toft’s project explores the idea of how two places on the opposite side of the Atlantic ocean perceive each other within archives and cultural memory. I like the idea of this project because I feel that not many people from New Jersey know the origin of its name and don’t even know that Jersey exists. Toft decided to do this as there has been no archival evidence of the link between Jersey and New Jersey.
“I must admit…I prefer the winter to summer on the Jersey Shore…quiet, cold, friendly.” – Martin Toft
Instead of creating one large exhibition with framed and printed photographs Toft and the Societe Jersey decided to create a newspaper that would be sent out to different places in the world where spectators could create their own exhibitions wherever they are. To make an exhibition you would need two copies on the newspaper. This newspaper was created by a professional company in order to get it to the highest of quality and so that it would work all spread out. I think that this is more interesting than a regular exhibition as the spectator is able to read it as a newspaper with all of the text and then they are able to make a small exhibition themselves and being able to see the photographers larger. The newspaper is more of a DIY concept allowing spectators to piece everything together themselves. There were 3,000 copies of the newspaper printed and were sent out to different places in the world including schools in New Jersey. This newspaper will be put into the archive as a part of Jersey history and in hundreds of years to come spectators will be able to look at this newspaper and see the link between the two and how possibly different that link will be in the future.
Jersey, Channel Islands
New Jersey, United States of America
Toft explored many different places around Jersey and went to St. Ouens manner were Sir George Carteret lived. It is an 11th century castle. Toft’s project focuses on the West Coast of Jersey facing America and the East Coast of New Jersey that faces Jersey through the Atlantic ocean. Through visits to and from New Jersey and Jersey Toft discovered that Jersey was much more rural whereas New Jersey is a lot more urbanised. They seem to be binary opposites to one another. Toft successfully shows the political, social and economic difference between Jersey and New Jersey including the people, landscapes, industries and identities. The Atlantus Project makes connections with memories, the archives and photographs two lands on opposite sides of the Atlantic ocean.
I like to compare images from Jersey and New Jersey to compare and contrast them. Looking at the two images above I can see how the two aren’t so different in that they are both facing the ocean, obviously Jersey is an island and totally surrounded by the ocean whereas New Jersey is facing the Atlantic ocean on one side. I think that we can identify the two together through the love of surfing and how surfing often brings people together. I like that these images show the similarities within the beaches of both Jersey and New Jersey and how they can be brought together this way. I particularly like the New Jersey image here as the surfer looks as if he is getting ready to go when Toft approached him to make a photograph and she almost looks very natural and as if was already positioned there.
Jersey, Channel Islands
New Jersey, United States of America
These two images really stood out to me and I wanted to put them beside each other because I wanted to see the difference between the way the channel islands deal with guns and the way America deals with them. I really do think that America has a gun problem with mass killings every single month. The image to the right shows a New Jersey man holding his riffle gun in his back garden so casually. In America guns are allowed and people seem to be able to get licenses so easily. Unlike, Jersey Channel Islands were you must be in a club to get access to a gun. This is obviously more expensive and organised with officials and people there to take care of the guns in a safe environment where they are only able to shoot at objects that are prepositioned and ready for them. I find this so interesting as there is a ‘Chief Range Officer’ watching over all of the people on the shooting range in the Channel Islands whereas in America they just have them in their homes with no one there to ensure safety. I think it is so crazy to see these photos side-by-side because of how different they are. The people of America can so easily access guns and carry them around anywhere they please in contrast to the Channel Islands were you must be watched over and stay within the grounds of the actual riffle club.
For some reason I love putting these two images beside each other. I think I decided to do this because they were both wearing similar hats. I find this interesting because they are two completely different men with completely different backgrounds, the American being a Vietnam veteran and the British [Jersey Bean] being a semi-retired fisherman. The fisherman wears a camouflage hat while the Vietnam veteran wears a camouflage jacket. It is weird to think that camouflage has transitioned from being a way of blending in with the environment to actually becoming a fashion statement, not that the fisherman is making a fashion statement. I think both men will use the camouflage pattern to blend with their environment but more likely the war veteran would use it more effectively. I like these two images as the spectator is able to look at the two men and see two completely different and unique stories.
Jersey, Channel Islands
New Jersey, United States of America
These two images are similar in that they are both on beaches. The different is that the American teens look as if they are just chilling and hanging out as it seems to be getting cooler, possibly getting later in the day. Compared to the Channel Islands photo which seems to be midday and all of the teens have just been out for a swim. These images differ in the youths and just the groups of people that are hanging out on the beaches. I like these images as they show different communities in two different places and environments.
New Jersey, United State of America
This is my absolute favourite image of the entire project. There is just something about it that I really like, it is easy to look at and the subject is very interesting. I think the colours work really well in this image, with the green really standing out and flattering the skin tone of the subject. This woman is very beautiful and looks really good in this image, she is interesting making the spectator want to know a little bit more about her. I think that the composition of this photograph is great as she is directly in the centre making her the key subject. I think that the green and the colour of her skin really makes her stand out against the light sand and the light blue cloudy sky which is really effective and draws the spectators attention to her. I don’t really have a main reason for liking this image apart from the fact that it is just very interesting to me and I enjoy looking at it and trying to find out more and more about the subject and the plain environment surrounding her.
Overall, I think that the Atlantus project successfully shows the links that Jersey has with New Jersey and how their communities vary in similarities and differences. It is interesting to see the historical links between the two as well and how Jersey actually has a State in America named after it even though it is such a small island. I really like this project as it allows more people to learn more about the Channel Islands as I feel not a lot of people in New Jersey and around the world even know that it exists.
You can also find it here in the TO DO folder on Silverstore
M:\Departments\Photography\Students\Resources\Documentary & Narrative\TO DO
Use following colour code: GREEN = all complete YELLOW = incomplete and write what you need to do to improve RED = not done at all
Some of you are doing really well at staying on task with work and others are falling too far behind. For those of you who only have done a few blog posts your Study Periods will be used for extra lessons. I WILL COME AND FIND YOU!
However, extra sessions are available for everyone to come and work in my classroom
Objective: Explore theme of Community in Documentary Photography
DEADLINE: Wed 21st October
Case Study: Atlantus – A Transoceanic Journey
In January 2014 I embarked on a major transoceanic photography project in collaboration with Gareth Syvret at Archisle: the Jersey’s Contemporary Photography Programme hosted by the Societe Jersiaise Photographic Archive. Prompted in part by the 350th anniversary in 2014 of Sir George Carteret naming of the State of New Jersey, USA after Jersey his island home in 1664, the project asks how two places that share a name on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean perceive each other within archives and cultural memory? Essentially Atlantus is a story about communities on the west coast of Jersey and the east coast of New Jersey. In five stories responding through image and text to the people, politics, landscapes, industries and identities of these places the Atlantus Project connects memories, archives and imagined lands on opposite side of the Atlantic World. Atlantus is a transoceanic story in which estranged lands of incomparable scale come together in poetic gestures that ask: what’s in a name?
A multi-functional newspaper and DIY exhibition
80 pages
56 colour and 5 monochrome ills.
5 stories
As a photographer you have to think about your audience and how you would like people to engage with your story and project. Produced as a multi-functional newspaper and DIY exhibition you can read Atlantus as a newspaper and with two copies you can create your own exhibition display.
Blog: Produce a number of posts that show evidence of the following:
Task 1: Consider different approaches and aesthetic considerations used to tell this story; classic documentary (i.e. camera bearing witness) compared with staged photography (Tableaux). Identify different types of images produced in Atlantus e.g. a combination of portraits (formal, environmental, observed), landscapes and still-lives (interiors/ objects). Consider the editing, sequencing and grouping of images and how they relate to the text, story titles and use of image caption. Provide further context by comparing Atlantus to works or specific photographs from other photographers/ artists. Situate it within the history and theory of documentary photography
For more background information visit online gallery with a wider selection of images and project blog. Two films are also available for viewing, the first one include sound and interviews with some of the main characters from our story and in the second one you can browse the newspaper.
Your task is to tell a story in a series of images and finding your own voice. How you are going to that in a unique and personal way is essential for you to achieve top marks. There are many different ways and approaches to achieve this. Below are a small section of photographers who are storytellers within documentary practice.
Task 2; Artists references: Select at least one photographers who are exploring the theme of community in their work. Select key works and analyse images in terms of style, form, approach, subject-matter, aesthetics, meaning and what story/message the photographer is trying to communicate.
Alec Soth (Sleeping by the Mississippi, Niagara, Broken Manual, Songbook), Rob Hornstra (The Sochi Project), Chris Killip (Isle of Man: A book about the Manx), Mark Power (The Shipping Forecast), Martin Parr (The last Resort), Lars Tunbjork (Country besides itself), Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg (Ghetto), Stephen Gill (Hackney Wick), David Goldblatt (In Boksburg), Josef Koudelka (Gypsies), Robert Frank (the Americans), Bruce Davidson (East 100th Street, Central Park, Subway), Esko Manniko (The Female Pike), Mary Ellen Mark (Ward 81, Falklands Road), Ken Schles (Nightwalk), Tom Wood (Bus Odessey, All Zones off Peak), George Georgiou (The Last Stop), Robert Adams (The New West), Lewis Baltz (The new Industrial Parks Near Irvine), John Divola (Three Acts), Gary Winogrand (the Animals), Sebastio Salgado (Workers), W.Eugene Smith, Anders Petersen (Cafe Lehmitz), J.H Engstroem (From Back Home – together with Anders Pedersen), Jon Tonks (Empire), Ken Grant (Flock), Vanessa Winship (Schoolgirls, She Dances on Jackson, Black Sea), Lauren Greenfield (Fast Forward, Girl Culture), Ricardo Cases (Paloma al aire), Heikki Kaski (Tranquility), Robert Clayton (Estate), Jason Wilde (Silly Arse Broke It, Guernsey Residency, Estuatry English), Tom Hunter (Le Crowbar), Valerio Spada (Gomorrah Girl), Pieter Hugo (Permanent Error, Nollywood), Alejandro Cartegena (Carpoolers), Janet Delaney (South of Market), Martin Gregg (Midlands) , Lorenzo Vitturi (Dalston Anatomy)
See this folder with artist that exhibited as part of Guernsey Photography Festival 2014
M:\Departments\Photography\Students\Resources\Documentary & Narrative\Research\GPF Open Call Submissions\COMMUNITY
Task 3: Photo-Assignment 2: Explore the theme of Community and make a set of 5 images/ or a 3 min film.
Finding your voice and unique way to tell a story: As a photographer you are always looking for photo-opportunities and for stories that only you can tell. Try and find a personal angle on a story which will make it unique and choose a subject you have access to and can photograph in depth. It could be that you, or someone you know, have a passion for something outside work; a hobby, sport, pastime where you could photograph ‘behind-the-scenes’. Record events e.g. cultural festivities (Battle of Britain), sports competitions, protest/rallies etc. You could also expose something hidden or reveal something about our society and a particular group of people across class, gender, race or ethnicity. Maybe you live in a rural area and wants to highlight life in the country-side, photographing farm communities or parish life. Or, explore the town of St Helier with its hustle and bustle of life on the streets. You could also photograph a particular place, site or landscape which shows traces of human activity in what we refer to as Aftermath Documentary. Look at everyday life and the familiar from a new angle. Be curious and make the ordinary look extraordinary.
Task 4: Editing/Evaluation:Upload pictures from photo-shoot and process in Lightroom. Put contact sheets and edited prints in your blog. Annotate and evaluate pictures.
Presentation: Print out your set of 5 images and present in class for a group crib (Wed 21st October)
For further starting points and inspiration see these videos, read articles , and visit websites and do your own independent research.
Video with Lauren Greenfield on her 6 year project, Girl Culture. Link to her website
Rob Hornstra and writer Arnold van Bruggen spend five years working in the Sochi Region where the 2014 Winter Olympics where held. Here is a link to The Sochi Project
In this video, Mary Ellen Mark describes capturing iconic photos, pushing one’s limits and finding intimacy in a shot. Link to her website
South-African photographer David Goldblatt on his celebrated work and photo book, In Boksburg. Link to his website
J.H. Engstrom discussing his recent project and photo book Tout va Bien which won him the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2015.
Interview with British photographer Chris Killip. Link to his website
2.Photo-Assignment 2: Explore the theme of Community and make a set of 5 images/ or a 3 min film.
As a photographer you are always looking for photo-opportunities and for stories that only you can tell. Try and find a personal angle on a story which will make it unique and choose a subject you have access to and can photograph in depth. It could be that you, or someone you know, have a passion for something outside work; a hobby, sport, pastime where you could photograph ‘behind-the-scenes’. Record events e.g. cultural festivities (Battle of Britain), sports competitions, protest/rallies etc. You could also expose something hidden or reveal something about our society and a particular group of people across class, gender, race or ethnicity. Maybe you live in a rural area and wants to highlight life in the country-side, photographing farm communities or parish life. Or, explore the town of St Helier with its hustle and bustle of life on the streets. You could also photograph a particular place, site or landscape which shows traces of human activity in what we refer to as Aftermath Documentary. Look at everyday life and the familiar from a new angle. Be curious and make the ordinary look extraordinary.
3.Editing/evaluation: Upload pictures from photo-shoot and process in Lightroom. Put contact sheets and edited prints in your blog. Annotate and evaluate pictures.
Presentation: Print out your set of 5 images and present in class for a group crib (Wed 21 October)
We went to go visit Tom Pope’s exhibition down at the royal spare where he showed off his pieces of work. Tom took us around and explained to us the meanings behind his images. First off we walked in and there was a video Tom playing with dice that was on a TV screen, this was on repeat so that every time you started watching the video you saw it from a different point each time. In this video Tom was trying to place 5 dice on top of one another by angling them so that they all stayed up and did not fall back down again. In the room there was other images that were placed on the walls that were in orange frames, Tom said that they were in orange frames just because he likes this colour and that this had no significant meaning to his images. These are some of the photographs that Tom took that was on the walls. In these images Tom went out into the community and took images of people in Jersey, in some of the images he told the person how to take the photograph if he was in it, but in others he left it up to the person taking the image, which to Tom meant that in the photograph was a part of Jersey community.
In the next room we went into there was a room with different masks in, theses masks were of faces of people from the archisle that Tom took out and blew up to life size sizes and placed a string around the back to make them into masks.
In this room there was also photographs on tables that had been cut up. These images had been blown up from the archisle and Tom on many of his workshops and through meeting people got them to throw a coin onto it and where the coin landed he made them a badge for the person to where, Tom did this with people that were from the Island Games also, which means that Tom’s badges are all around the world now. In another room that we went into there was photographs from Tom’s series called ‘high and low’ in these images Tom took images out of the archive of people doing the high jump but also took images of people doing the limbo, he placed these images so that the pole was in the same place and they all made a perfect line. In this room there was also a photograph on a piece of wood called from Jeffery’s leap, Tom took a piece of wood and kept throwing it over Jeffery’s leap, he did this repetition 12 times because he used a film camera called Hasselblad only took 12 different shots. Tom had this inspiration from John Baldessari who has done something like this before.
