Repetition is the action of repeating something which has already been done or the recurrence of an action or event. In photography terms, repetition is closely linked with typologies. I was inspired by Bernd and Hilla Becher who looked at different but similar buildings in order to produce a repeated style of images and present them in the same way.
My inspiration for these photographs sprung when looking at Bernd and Hilla Bercher. My idea was to take photos of something simple and used on a daily basis that most people carry around. This experiment became more interesting than what I anticipated as I noticed that each key almost showed each owners personality.
I captured these simple images of keys on a white background of every student in my class to show the similarities (uniqueness) and variations of colours and styles.
After experimenting with different ways of presenting, I decided to produce a GIF of all the images to show the sequence of images and how similar each one is, however, different in terms of style and personality.
Below are the images that I used to construct a GIF. These images are laid out in a typology form as a response to the artist above.
THE GIF
I used Adobe Photoshop to convert these series of images into the GIF shown above. Below is a quick step to step tutorial on how I created this GIF.
