My first final outcome is from the disposable camera from St. Malo.
I like this set of images because it shows the progression of what happened from both angles, behind them, where we were sat, and the camera from which they took the photo themselves.
My second final outcome is also from this shoot. This includes the central image showing our setup, with photos taken by the people all around it. I really like that the quality of the photo in the centre is different to the other images because it shows the disposable camera in the picture and so people can figure out what is happening and what relevance the images all have without words being needed.
Here I have just put a few photo montages together in an attempt to practice and see what my outcomes could look like. Over the week I think that I am also going to print off some images which I have made and cut them out and put them back together in a different way to try and create a brand new image. I am going to use photos from my old family archive and my Great Uncle Archie’s photographs to make a montage of a load of his old war photos and to create one image as a memory of him and the time in which he fought during World War II.
For this image on top of itself and rotated it each time. I think this worked well as it looks odd and possibly like something from a dream where you have no idea what is going on and there are just so many faces everywhere making you confused. Workshop with Tom Pope experimentationThis image is similar to the one above and is the same photograph but has been edited in a slightly different way. Workshop day experimentation
I am going to experiment more with this as well and make more images and try different ways to montage them all together as I find this an interesting concept and want to explore it further.
#1
My first set of final outcomes are going to be put together on one window mount. This is where I edited a few photographs of mine and was heavily inspired by John Baldessari. I think that you cant really take away too much inspiration from him without somehow copying a part of his iconic images, especially with the dots in front of peoples faces.
#2
The next set of images that I am going to use for one of my final outcomes is two photographs from St. Malo. These photographs were inspired by Tom Pope and his set of images entitled Weak Anarchy. Here I decided to challenge what is morally right in society and see what the public’s reaction was to this. I did get a few weird looks when doing these performances and people also took some photographs. I will be putting these images together on a window mount.
#3
For this final outcome I took inspiration from Dadaism and photo montage. These photos are made up of one image each which I have just layered on top of one another and rotated them round to make an interesting photograph. Both photos come from the workshop day that we had with Tom Pope.
The Situationists are Guy Debord, Michèle Bernstein and Asger Jorn. “The Situationists rediscovered the history of the anarchist movement, particularly during the period of the First International, and drew inspiration from Spain, Kronstadt, and the Makhnovists.”
THE NAKED CITY
One of the main concepts of situationism is psychogeorgraphy , to Tom Pope this means that when he is in a location, the location inspires him to take his images. For example in one of Tom’s pieces of work he was walking down the street and say a set of balloons on the floor, Tom videoed him running after the balloon and popping them, and then the alarm went off on the motorbike. Tom also told us about how you can go to a country and bring a map of a different country to guide you round. When we went on our St Malo trip we used the map of Jersey to guide us round St Malo to test this theory.
Situationism is a theory in psychology, it began in 1968. Situationism is ‘widely held model for understanding human thinking and behaviour- on which our laws and institutions are based is largely wrong’ https://thesituationist.wordpress.com/about-situationism/. Situationists establish the human animal thinking which is as realistic as possible before turning to policy or legal theory, when situationists do this they use the knowledge of scientific research which has been used for scientists to understand how humans make sense of their world, this includes, social cognition and social psychology.
I am really interested in this movement and have decided that I want to create images based around this. For this have taken inspiration from John Baldessari and have recreated his works with the dots in front of people’s faces. I used photographs which I have already taken and just added in the dots on top of the images. I am also going to take inspiration from Christopher Mckenney and will be experimenting with his style throughout the week as well as experimentation with photo montage and dream-like images.
Family Album – My sister and I
I have also been looking at the surrealist photographer Christopher McKenney and I find a lot of his work very interesting and I enjoy looking at it, which is why I am using his work as influence for my own work and my own surrealist dreams brought to life through photography. I wondered what it would be like if two surrealist photographers joined together to create a brand new image, unique to the rest of their own images and I decided that I wanted to use my inspiration from John Baldessari and Christopher McKenney in order to create a new surrealist photograph. I have started with some experimentation and used photographs that I had taken while on the St Malo trip and on the workshop with Tom Pope. This is just so I can get a feel of what I will need to do during the week to make the perfect image. I am not using this next image as one of my final outcomes but it is just an experimentation to see how I will need to take photographs throughout the week. The meaning behind this photograph has different elements. The oranges on the floor and the giant orange represent the workshop day out we had and the small wheel on the floor represents our day in St. Malo. The reason I chose to have all of the faces covered in the same purple dot was because Sophie and I were copying this man and imitating him so I thought it would be a good idea to have the same coloured dot as we are supposed to look the same as one another.
These are my finals that I have chosen to select to represent our trip to St Malo. I think these photo’s show that we had a lot of fun and did lots of activity’s around St Malo, to emphasis the happiness and the joyfulness of the day through the photo’s.I edited the photo’s by enhancing the saturation, making the photo’s more vibrant in colour.
This first photo was taken at a play ground we found in the center of St Malo where we played on the roundabout and swings.I really like this photo because it is of the St Malo locals and they are all leaning out of their windows talking to each other.We met some boys on the beach who had set up their own tight rope on the beach and were performing tricks. They let us have ago on the tight rope and take photo’s of them performing.
Whilst playing the game, bulldog on the beach with some American kids I took this photo of Mr McKinlay instructing everyone of what todo.This is some of the members in my group on the Feresse wheel that we went on in our lunch break. I added an effect to this photo which made the colour slightly duller,I did this to make the photo look old to foreshadow that Feresse wheels were something that we went on when we were younger.This photograph was taken during the ‘Flower Giving’ Sian gave a yellow rose to these old ladies who were very pleased and thankful.This is another photograph from the ‘Flower Giving’ which was to, two young ladies that were on a lunch break. I really like this photo because you can see Sian walking away and the pleased look on her face. You can also see the lady holding the rose in her hand which matches the bunch of roses in Sian’s hand.
For a competition which was set by Tom pope and Gareth, we had to search into our own personal archive and look for pictures that went way back. As I only have my mum dad and sister in Jersey, I had limited resources but found a handful of images of my mum as a baby. The earliest one I found was from 1969 when my mum was 1 year old and the last one was when she was 32. This challenge was to relate our personal lives to the archive in Jersey which started in 1993 and has collected over 300,000 archival records from the States of Jersey.
These old photographs are usually taken at special events/ less frequent occasions which is known as vernacular photography. This is the creation of photographs, usually by amateur or unknown photographers both professional and amateur, who take everyday life and common things as subjects. These photographs are more personal and special as photography was limited back then, so these photographs were more important rather than the 100 pictures we take of the same thing. Closely related to vernacular photography is found photography, which in one sense refers to the recovery of a lost, unclaimed, or discarded vernacular photograph or snapshot.
1969 – My mum and her grandfather at her home.1976 – My mum with her brother and grandma.19901994 – Wedding day.1999 – Me aged 1, Mum aged 312000 – Disney Land Paris.
Surrealism was a culture movement starting in the 1920’s its best know for it’s writing and artworks.The leader of surrealism was Andre Breton. The aim of surrealism was to “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality.” The artists created painting of everyday objects but turned them into strange creatures which allowed them to express there selfs. Surrealism was created out of Dada which was from the first world war which originally started in Paris and in the 1920’s became a global movement and affected literature, film and music. I like the idea of using photography to try and manipulate and push the boundaries of reality. I think that surrealism links in with Tom Pope’s work although he doesn’t use magical creatures he has a few photographs were he is ‘standing’ in mid air which is physically impossible and therefore also blurs the line between reality and dream.
Read Tom Pope’s new blogspot about his planned epic film: Pushing the Boat Out
The film will see Tom, with the help of the Jersey community, push a 13.7ft boat across the island and out to the Atlantic ocean.
Here is what Tom has to say:
‘On July the 16th, starting from Gorey harbour i will set off with the boat heading West to St Ouen’s Bay. The underlying principle of the film is centred on how it’s an impossible task for me to complete alone. As a photographer and performer it will not be viable to record the process of pushing the boat across Jersey while actually doing it. I will require assistance from the public if i want to succeed in moving the boat and recording the performance. The resulting video footage will be used to create a 20-25minute film.’
