Over the course of my project I have been collecting images that reflect inspiration taken from my original artist reference Hiroshi Sugimoto. It was much easier to collect a variety of lighting over a long time period therefore every-time I went on a shoot I would snap a couple of Images in the style that can be seen below. This allowed me to collect a wider range of weather conditions and lighting than if I were to go out on specific shoots for this. I think this process has worked very well in allowing me to collect a variety of seascape images with a sense of changing lighting and weather conditions.

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For this shoot i wanted to take a different approach to the typical photos that have influenced my interest in the ocean by Hiroshi Sugimoto. His photos usually portray a moody atmosphere through the choice of B&W formatting. Despite his project all containing B&W images there is still a clear focus on the depiction of light. However i wanted to try and emphasize this focus on changing light and how it shapes the landscape as appose to the traditional landscape images from the romantic genre. I feel as if I have successfully achieved this aim with a wide variety of weather conditions and lighting on the same landscape.

PHOTOMONTAGE?

Photo-montage its self is a medium in which another composite photograph is made up by combining, gluing, overlapping, rearranging two or more photographs in one way or another. This can either be done digitally or physically, and even sometimes photo-montage is produced in a video format. The medium of photo-montage tends to be either used in a way that challenges political affairs, or challenges issues that we face in society as a whole. Photo-montage seems to have first been used around 1915 by the Dadaists (a movement I will explain shortly). The medium then began to be used by the Surrealism movement who began to combine images with no seeming connection or association, this was with the intention of ”releasing the creative potential of the unconscious mind.” Soon after, In 1923 the Russian constructivist Aleksander Rodchenko who was part of the Russian avant-garde movement (linked my post looking into this movement) began experimenting with photomontage as a way of creating politically fuelled challenging imagery concerned with the placement and movement of objects within a given space. Below are some modern examples of photo-montage techniques being used, and it is clear to see that this is an aesthetic which has remained prominent within art since its origin…

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DADAISM?

Dadaism was an creative avant-garde movement in modern art which began during the First World War. It was a reaction to the negativity and horror that was occurring during the war, and a focus on going against the standards of society. It was done in a somewhat dark humorous way as it was ridiculing the modern world. It originated in Zurich, Switzerland and quickly spread to New York in 1915 and to Paris soon after 1920. Pioneers of the Dadaism movement included artists such as: Marcel Duchamp, Raoul Hausmann and Max Ernst among many others. Here are some examples of work from these three artists.

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SURREALISM?

Surrealism is an abstract artistic movement which also began in the early 20th century inspired by dadaism and abstractism. The purpose of surrealism was to challenge the unconscious mind and the creativity within all human mind. It ”aimed to revolutionise human experience, rejecting a rational vision of life in favour of one that asserted the value of the unconscious and dreams. The movement’s poets and artists found magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional.” So to put it simply this art movement was basically a way of trying to activate the creativity within the unconscious human mind, by means of unconventional techniques and aesthetics. Surreal as a word its self suggests something beyond reality which is exactly what this art entails; a lot of the time showing a form of dream or imaginary worlds etc… This is evident written as ”Many surrealist artists used automatic drawing or writing to unlock ideas and images from their unconscious minds, and others sought to depict dream worlds or hidden psychological tensions.” Some of the worlds most famous modern artists such as Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo belong to the Surrealist movement. Below again are some examples of work from these three artists that contributed to surrealism.

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