On Tuesday the 20th of June, Tanja came into Hautlieu to talk to us about her own individual work and the type of things that inspired her ideas, which later resulted in her final pieces.

She is a fan of using the archive to help her explore her work and develop ideas relating to the themes that she portrays in her own work.  It also helped her to avoid being somewhat ignorant the island of  Croatia as the archive has helped by allowing her to have a insight into the islands best resources when shooting, basing her work on past works.  She explained to us how she likes collaging elements of ancient drawings an cutting pieces of the body and juxtaposing them against other things. She admitted that each of her photos would take up to a month to create and there would be hundreds photos combined.

After this talk and presentation with Tanja, we got the bus to Grosnez castle, where we all took photographs of the scenery around us that we could later cut and paste several of these photos to make a final image.  We walked from Grosnez to L’etacq where we too photographs of what we seen and what inspired us. We had to keep in mind how we would use these photographs to juxtapose images later on. I think that creating our own images will be extremely fun as it’s different to what we usually do, so I am looking forward to seeing the outcome.

Some of the photographs I took on my journey:

MY FAVOURITE PHOTOS:

I particularly like this photo because the building on the edge of the hill almost looks like it shouldn’t be there and it has been digitally manipulated. The colours are all light and bright, which makes the image a radiant photograph. The rocky hill, which contains various colours and shades, contrasts with the clear blue sky.