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Photography presentation on lorna simpson

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Her work combines factors of identity, race, culture, history and memory. I think it is evident throughout all of these artists work, there is a defined clarity to their relation to that of similarity and variation. However it is divided into the narratives of peoples, places and an emotional responses to the title. I started off with looking at ‘Simpson’ She uses her work in order to repeat an understanding of peoples lack of attention, and their uncomfortablity within learning and seeing new aspects of people. She claims to create a dynamic which makes people uncomfortable, as it is within the open relationships of artworks and viewers, that they grow and become more susceptible to understanding a narrative, and learning from the piece of art themselves. I Believe her work is work which becomes more interesting once you know and have learnt the understanding to why she has done what she has done. To my mind, her work is slightly repetitive with a lack of change, I would rather she expresses a narrative thought ,rather than a repeated image, however, this was her aim when creating this art form. Her work not only has her own influence of her black identity, and narrative of peoples lack of attention. But it too links to connections of fine art being multitude of creative mannerism, clearly influencing her work.

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laura el tantawy ARTIST REFERENCE FOR SECOND SHOOT

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I chose el tantawy as my second artist think it is fascinating how she manages  to not only capture reflections within different mediums such as glass and water, but also using this with the addition of light. I believe the different uses of natural elements are an occurring  sentiment within her work.  I too want to capture a variation of daytime and njght-time imagery, yet still achieve the same effortless representation of people and emotions. Another area of her work that I belive is very fascinating is how she actually achieves such complex compositions without editing her photos to do so. An article that I found very interesting, was explaining tantawys inspiration throughout her work. It discusses how she finds moments of beauty and optimism even in the darkest places, and she is beyond the point where she sees nothing. ‘Growing up without a fixed place to call home, Laura El-Tantawy struggled with a fractured identity. Then she found liberation in the form of a camera, developing an impressionistic eye that helped her reconnect with her native Egypt.’ There’s a point I always return to when thinking about what photography means to me. I was studying journalism and political science at the University of Georgia when I took a photo class as an easy credit, just to have fun, and fell in love with it.’  She then continues to discusses her love of movement within her photos, and how this movement to her is a parrel between-her inspiration and movement towards wanting to be  in her home town. ‘ One of the first assignments was to photograph movement. I went to a dance performance, just playing around with my camera settings, not really knowing what I was doing.’

Much of her work has an impressionistic undertone that, looking back, it feels perfectly in tune with the path my work should take: Finding moments of beauty and optimism, even in the darkest places. But there was one editor who said, “You know what? You can take pictures just for you.” That’s essentially what I’ve been doing ever since. It’s not a selfish or egotistical thing. It’s liberating. I have no expectations whatsoever, only to take pictures that mean something to me in that moment.I was born in Worcestershire in 1980 and my parents moved back to Cairo when I was five months old. We were in Egypt until about 12 and then my father got a job in Saudi Arabia, so we lived there for about six years. Then I went back to Cairo for two years, moved to America for 10 years and I’ve been in the UK for almost a decade now.t gives me a space where there are no boundaries. But living all over the place means I’ve always felt like I’m looking for something and I don’t know where it is. That sense of constantly trying to connect gradually led to Beyond Here is Nothing, which is about the beauty and the tension of living somewhere you don’t really know.

 

 This perception of seeing the smoke is perhaps one of my favourite images, this is due to the interesting composition. I believe the effortlessly of the lighting, and a habit which is deemed as dangerous and unhealthy, is almost presented as beautiful within this image. The lighting is almost embellished within the fluidity of the weaving smoke. And something which was once deadly she had now turned into art. I also think the use of the shadow instead of showing the whole man himself, also creates a more successful piece. it brings out a more occurrent resemblance of mystery within the work. Too the image on the left is a scene of a hardship, and flooding, it is once again something never seen as beautiful or perhaps even a sight portrayed as picturesc. Below i’ve added some quote and reasonings as two why the artist has created these images, and what they mean to her.’ Enclosed between four walls, the sound of silence never seemed louder. It’s claustrophobic. I wait for the phone to ring, check for emails obsessively, eat everything out of the fridge. The hunger remains. I feel like if I dig my hand deep into my soul, I will find nothing. The awareness I am experiencing is unspeakable. Faces change when we meet. Is their solitude reflected in mine? There is an awkward silence.’

The work above is from her work ‘Beyond Here Is Nothing’ is a photo-book object meditating on home. A place of belonging, a tranquil state of mind; a nostalgic memory or an imaginary destination – home is a perpetual possibility El-Tantawy is journeying to reach. Her personal experience growing up in contrasting cultures is the window to an intimate and emotive visual exploration of the unsettling feeling of rootlessness, the mental burden of loneliness and the constant search for belonging in unfamiliar places. Drifting between the physical and the whimsical, the book reveals itself through layers of images and words. A mirror of dispositions. A living object harmonising with time. I chose her work as  I see an angelic effect, I see her own narrative of relating her own feeling of love for somewhere else shown with her current environment. Her work looks as though it is a combination of overlapping images and edits, however, her work is a sight which was actually visible, This brings a certain respect of truth to her narrative, it is a reflection of real time. The way she uses colour in such a strong tonal way, yet still occur the sense of peacefulness is beyond what most photographers capabilities. The femininity and the soft touch to the images, create a very female orientated view.

I believe through this composition and vision board of her images, you are really able to see the narrative development and artistic influence of abstraction. I like how she not only pictures nature and belongings but she presents people in such a disposition, that they too become part of her own narrative. I have spoken about for this shoot and using this artist as artistic inspiration, I will also use myself through the shoot. I believe it is fascinating how she can even display traumatic events, such as the middle right image, with boundlessness of beauty and see a complete depiction of her own life narrative. You can belive that these were all taken with the intention from being experienced by herself. The lighting in these images, brings a warmth and an aspect which I believe is the most successful part. Images analysis: conceptually all of her images have a conjoined narrative of wanting to show a beauty of her country in someone else’s country. I also believe through the more I see her work, and through the way it is composed, is how they are about beauty and tranquility. Her images still have so much colour and vibrancy within them. And this is an area which I too want to show and use throughout my work. Although her images do not necessarily carry the same theme, they all work so well together as a narrative group, and I believe this is evident as seen above.  My inspiration and how I will develop these concepts from her work, Due to her narrative being focused on her missing home, so creating abstract images full of beauty in order to resemble her love and beauty for her home, Perhaps my narrative journey should be aspiring  to see the beauty within myself and my environment. It should be the ability to see the happiness and capability within my life and my own actions. This is an article about shooting in black and white, however I still believe it shows pivotal demonstrations of capturing a beauty within street photography, and the construction of a narrative with people and the space around them.

 https://fstoppers.com/education/why-its-still-important-shoot-black-and-white-48141

 

 

 

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PLANNING FOR SECOND SHOOT AND FINAL OUTCOMES

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My concept for the beginning of this shoot was first to show a type of beauty within my personal daily life, I wanted this to be a reflection of the everyday and seeing beauty within the normal. I wanted to show both a combination of femininity but also a focus on how I could express this not only through a softer tonal scheme but a more vibrant colour. I wanted to show variations of both nature elements, and also more detailed areas that are looked over for being seen as beautiful. I not only wanted to from beautiful imagery but I too wanted to how a more abstract and interesting composition  to my work.

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repetition – typology research

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Explain your process and where your ideas came from RE  GIF –Making

the process of creating a gif: File, Script, Stack, Window- what file , add open files, Okay, Select all layers, Window, Open a timeline, Opens at the bottom, Click arrow to frame animation, Must click it, Me he box in corner, Create new make new, 0 seconds, A delay between frame, How long you want the gif, 0.2 secs, Forever as a loop like a standard gif, File, Export, Save for web legacy, Dialogue box preview, Check file size, 8mg on blog, Might need to trim, In image side bring it down.

•      Include your original images to show the starting point of your experiment

•      Define what a GIF is…it’s possibilities and limitations too

a lossless format for image files that supports both animated and static images.
“a GIF image”, a file in GIF format., plural noun: GIFs
The possibilities for a gif is to make an almost motion picture animation, and create a formation of separate images, almost forming a real life narrative. However it does have limitations of the way in which you take the image for the similarities to line up and look as though it could be real.
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wealth and media

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Being in jersey for a project which is very concentrated around natural beauty and finding a elements of visceral within the world is highly beneficial, however, I did belive it would too be interesting if I were to look more in depth at the word ‘opulence’ and what this demand to the people of jersey. In my previous posts I spoke much about ‘opulence’ being about what we consider to be wealth, the feeling or looking rich which brings us joy. And it is known jersey is one of, if not they biggest financial islands within the world, with billions invested into it, The very structure of jersey is the wealth which keeps everything turning, and because of this, I belive it would be beneficial to discuss if this wealth is peoples most important aspect to them, living in jersey. Although not everyone in jersey is wealthy, A large majority are, or a very few are incredibly rich with assists. Because of this the expenses of jersey is much more costly, but in tern, this is still a contributing factor as why jersey is such a pivotal essence of importance. However not only is his wealth within money a huge factor to jerseys success and why many people living here would view it as opulent, but also many belive jersey is and can be considered paradise, it is only an island 9-5 but it has many beaches vast and long, with beautiful bays, and award winning views. Its hospitality is enormous, and much of the reason jersey itself used to be considered an island wholey for tourism. However because this wealth of money is now the biggest factor of why I am to again these images I thought, it would be interesting to loOk at the issues of wealth from a mediated point of view, considering different philosophies and angles, in order for me to gain more knowledge as to why and how I could develop my work to see a new angle of jersey, that perhaps tells the truth even more so than my current shoots. Media: I believe throughout this project my knowledge on media could only but benefit my work as a whole. I belive if I were to expand my project more into fashion and fine art, possible focusing more on the beauty of people, I could once again add in the discussion of the male gaze and the female gaze. This also links into my project in the reflection of personal identity then to comes down to the relation for beauty, so using self portraits. I could use my perspective from being female in order to produce such a look which questions a gender perfomativity, and use elements such as the twin mechanises to form elements of schophilia, and create an elements that people might want to look at.

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PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT FINAL CONCEPT, finding beauty of imperfections

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I belive as this is my last photography project, I need to start creating photography out of my comfort zone, and images which evoke a true feeling and follow a successful narrative thought. I started to think about all the three concepts I have so far being: fine art, media and family. I have come to the conclusion that this could come under beauty in life, despite pain and suffering. I will do this project from my own personal persona of the world. I belive not only does this project become my first directly connected photography to my own emotions, but it becomes a reflective narrative of my own life. This creates a narrative and meaning to my work. I myself belive there is definitely more good in the world than not. I belive everyone should be grateful in their life, as we are surrounded by so much beauty constantly. Despite all the struggles, disappointments and pains throughout our time, there will always be a positive outcome or ending. Or however hard anything might seem, it is never permeant, and to still keep faith and see the positive aspects within the world. I believe that This way of living contributes to the concepts of buddhism, and a change in mindset of what the world is like. I will use a combination of my daily life, where I go, what I see and experience, and form these beautiful pieces with this positive mindset at hand, as I do belive it is possible to find beauty anywhere I go.

Much of the work that I have in mind to me that speaks positivity and a freeness of life, is work which is abstract, emotive, has bright vivid colour, strong happiness, lighting and finally has a movement to the piece. All of these aspects creating a happier image. The state of seeing happiness and beauty is a state of mind and consciousness that you have the power to control. The state to which your attitude  creates a whole new perception of what is actually in front of you. With the weather getting better, lighter and people being friendly and more united, this to my mind is the perfect time to study a project about my one positive relationships with others. As I will do this project from my own views of how I see beauty in the world, I will possible include myself in some images, in order to show a bonding of myself with the atmosphere, emotions and persona that I too share with the landscapes and objects. My feeling and self should be shown within the imagery and it should be a combination of my own self love, reflected within the work.

An artists work that I belive really inspired me was laura el tantawy, I will study her ideas and inspiration in my next blog post, but for now I see her work has a beauty , softness and elegance. Her images to my mind connote a reflection of peace at mind. And I believe even taking such beautiful images, will benefit my own self, and my thoughts and views of the world. Focusing on the good instead of the bad in the world, should be an ideal way which people should live. Through taking beautiful images and letting my emotions be vulnerably visible in these images, will only benefit myself, and become happier and more peaceful at mind. I believe throughout this project my images will gradually get happier and more positive, as I grow more apart of my project. This piece of art is a relation of family as its close combination with my own emotions and the close relationships with how people should have a close bond with themselves like family. Mental health problems that they view the world, it just as important as the close net relationships we have with others. The media always concentrates the way we think and should feel about ourself, this effect on our mental health, changes an creates prejudice in the way we see ourselves, the world around us and others.

I believe this project will have some undertones and connotations to mental health, This being due to how we view subject matters as a society, and people being very based off of our own thoughts. If we are depressed or anxious it becomes more fogged and harder to view the world in a positive way. My images will be a combination of landscapes, observations but focused on in a more abstract manner. I too believe positive is reflected within light, so lighting will be a large part of this shoot. Luminance and brightness, seen within artificial and real light is abstract. Perhaps I too will look into artists who just study and look at light and abstract work. Additional aspect which I belive I too believe have a large importance to what I am trying to achieve within my own work. People colour, nature Similarity people Dreamscapes, abstract imagery.

Videos, Throughout this project I want to make around 5 videos, showing a visible demonstration of my life, a direct observational of what I see, perhaps featuring myself.The fact of featuring myself is to be done to show and exposure my own insecurities and exposure my emotions to everyone, as this exposure of a real presentation of myself, should be compared to the world around me.  But mostly to show the journey of what I can see and perhaps a literal narrative and final outcome of why I belive this holds importance and beauty. These videos will be short, delicate and focus on small detail usually ignored. I believe I could even add music over some, which evokes a more meditative medium of peace to them, and music which I belive evokes happiness. I really ant this project to be a positive reinforcement of my own thinking, how I feel about myself, and also a sentiment for how people should think and view the world from a positive clean slate.

Beauty of imperfections, is not only a pivotal part of the world which we live in, but it is also learning to love yourself. It is so important to accept you are not perfect, and despite what you or many will think, no one is perfect. It is the people who are able to see their imperfections and still love themselves despite of this who are the most beautiful. Being vulnerable and possible showing myself in ways I don’t such as with no makeup, not dressed up and stripped down to a natural form, trying to show that despite this , it it still okay, I am still me and this should be accepted. with the current high social regard of the media and beauty standards perhaps me doing this is a pivotal point of importance to my work. my vulnerability of my body and my emotions within this project, is what will make it successful and bring it to the next level. My images being along side aspects of the world I view as beautiful literally pulls myself as part of my narrative, and highlights my own importance and a bonding with my project. Images of still life, landscapes close ups, myself, just beauty which is surrounding me, I will too edit and combine images to create more abstract imagery. I believe Finding beauty within the imperfections of life is such a infacturating concept, and such an important part to being happy. To know of all the bad and see through it, To view mortality as something worth living for and not taking life for granted, Rather than death waiting for us. I believe to view and create something beauty from nothing is such a hugely great and important aspect, and perhaps  my own imagery, will enable people to see the beauty they too live in but just haven’t noticed or seen yet. My project is the growth and decay in life, and finding the beauty within the bad and good. and my own personal exploration of my beyond, being and how i should and can view the world as something which is just beautiful and should be seen this way. I will look into some philosophies about how to capture the world in this light, and more asian methods of seeing beauty.

I do belive this project connects with the title similarity and variation, this is due to the first off the connection with fine art, family and media which I previously discussed are a few of the primary starting points for the project. Secondly variation and similarity discusses a-lot about DNA and what makes us who we are and our reality and how it is interesting as we as people are so similar yet so different. This being different in our views of the world our appearances, and are ability to seek happiness. I believe showing the individuality of myself and how I see the world is a pivotal point in this project. This is what really will successfully connect my project to the finished title.

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SECOND ARTIST: Yoav Horesh: Aftermath: CHAOS

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Yoav Horesh, Sbarro Pizzeria, Jerusalem, August 2003, gelatin silver print, 18½ x 14¾”. Courtesy of the artist.

Horesh was a student in Boston during 9/11 and was struck by how different the American response, with its grounded planes and makeshift memorials, was from his own experiences in Israel. While the American impulse was to “never forget,” Israel’s urge was to erase. (Though curator Kristina Durocher sees a parallel between “America’s response to mass shootings as a new societal norm” and the “cultural fatalism” in Horesh’s photos.)The ghostly reflections in a Sbarro window gesture at what can’t be seen. There are no monuments here, as Horesh explains, because there would be a plaque on every corner. If Lee Friedlander’s The American Monument is a testament to monuments hiding in plain sight, Horesh’s Aftermath, also a book, is a mournful dirge for trauma swept under the rug in the name of “normalcy.”By evoking the uncomfortable gap between violence and the collective “cleanup,” Horesh leaves us space to contemplate. Who was the bomber? Who were the victims? What butterfly effect has been set in motion?

The work I am influenced by and analysing is from his project ‘Aftermath’ It nods to the traditions of street photography, photojournalism and the archival impulse, as well as photo books like Joel Sternfeld’s On This Site and The American Monument. Yet unlike Friedlander, Horesh can only capture the hum of ghosts. To paraphrase Robert Frank, Horesh’s compassionate eye listens before it looks. Yoav Horesh B/W and colour photographs have been dealing with conflict, human tragedy, memory and recovery in Europe, Asia and America since 2001. His deep interest in the history of “sites” led him to explore close and far locations in search for cultural clues and personal histories. His evolving practice has grown from “street photography” to large format landscapes, interiors and portraits that open up the discussion between present and history. His projects also took place in the American South-west, Germany, Laos, Israel, the Gaza Strip and Cambodia, where history still shapes and influences current events and life.

ANYLSIS: I chose to study Horesh, as a consequence from this image. I believe not only does this image show an encounter of our daily lives, but it is a perfect example of chaos. The many images being overlaid. creates a composition that is not messy, but almost works structurally as a whole. The element within each image fit s together and creates a new composition. Each image slipping into a different aspect creating interests of architecture, and new movements of present and past people. This is clearly a very organised and thought out image, and one he did not easily put together. This also symbolises a passing of time, it shows the impact of live, perhaps the evolution of the area, due to the consequences of events which occurred there.

The concept from this image was from a book called aftermath. it is a presentation to make a political point about the conditions and daily lives that are similar to many in poverty and living in this area. His work is a transgression of more complex pieces such as the one above, and also images of slow shutter speed watching the visibility of cars moving, people, and details and shadows and aspects usually unseen in an area. He not only successfully captures the attitudes of people so well, but he too demonstrates knowledge of how to show these emotions very personal to an individual through a piece from a location. he himself has said ‘For two and a half years I photographed over 100 different sites of the suicide bombings in Israel while I lived in New York. I would go to photograph at least twice a year while doing my research for official and non-official information I needed in the United States. The bombings were happening on a daily basis; I would turn on the computer or read the newspapers and obviously I was very worried about my family and friends. The thought that they could be taking a bus or walking down the streets and disappear from life within a blink of a second horrified me. Perhaps it was also the feeling of guilt that pushed me to start this project, to be in far New York while this was happening in Israel so frequently. Maybe this is my mechanism of dealing with trauma; Repeating the action, the visitation, photographing, like going back to “a crime scene” and trying to understand what has happened there psychologically and visually.’

why did I choose this artist: He not only successfully captures a narrative of chaos caused by suicide bombings, and a clear emotional responses to each and everyone of his photos, but also his ranges from teaching 4×5, colour, black and white, darkroom printing techniques to digital photography. His subject matter has always remained the same: life, family, our history and primary emotional responses to the world. Ut’s about how we interpret the world using photography and how we analyse and understand photographs in various contexts. I don’t think these things changed since the first camera was manufactured, only the tools changed. It used to be large format box camera and now you have your phone camera. His photography is not just about creating impressive imagery, but I think that with this project, he was  also trying to raise awareness about how life is made a series of random events that affects all of us tremendously. These places he photographed were mundane. They were dictated because of their traumatic history. There was nothing unique about these sites until history scarred them. They turned into significant sites of trauma that he reduced into pictures of the landscape, the city, trees, cafes or street corners.

 

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FIRST SHOOT, LANDSCAPE WITH SURREAL EDITS

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With this shoot I will develop the outcomes in two manners. The first being creating surreal pieces, editing the close-ups to have people and changing the perspective to the landscapes themselves, creating character. To do so I will probably over lap the images, and also edit the images themselves, into being black and white, to capture the tonal differences, from the light and more tonal shades. The second way in which I will develop this shoot, is from printing out some of the more clear landscape images, and pouring them in paint and liquids, in order to change the composition and the colouring of the art piece itself. This second composition idea, has a much more clear influence from the fine art outlook, and I believe it will be very different from the outcomes below, and less predictable. edits- to create a more fine art creative influence:

analysis: For this shoot and small edits, I wanted to show landscapes which could be further edited in order to show surreal elemnts. My main aim for these images, was to capture an element of fluidity, and softness of structure to the images. I wanted to get the reflection and the detail within the sand, and use this in order to change perspective and make it look as though the image is not close up but expands across a large-scale. When looking closer at the reflections and movement of the sand, I discovered that it looked as though it was a path, or something which was guiding a route for someone. Because of this, I thought to create a surreal image I would repeat the images, and make it appear as a wet pathway, and put someone and a reflection within the water. I chose A politician as then this both connects my theme of media into my work. It additionally creates a uncomfortability within the image. He looks out-of-place in his suite and with his surrounding, it creates contradictions within the image however, at the same time, still forming connections to surrealism. I added the shadow in order to give the piece an elements of realism. The second image, I too thought had elements which paved out a path. I decided to add more artistic looking fine art figurative people, running along the beach. However, I do not belive this is as successful as the previous, due to the composition and light.

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PLANNING FOR FIRST 4 THEMED SHOOTS FOR VARIATION AND SIMILARITY

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FIRST SHOOT:landscape manipulation shoot: within this shoot I have 4 different concepts that I would like to edit and experiment with when taking an manipulating the photos. The first I have recently looked up at and it is to take a more subsequently ‘normal’ landscape photo, yet cover the outcomes in a liquid and then use this development of the photo as the final. This liquidation, allows colours to move and leak and forms a new more interesting composition. Additionally this creates a clear transpire of artistic influence and forms a connection of fine art, and making it appear as if this photo was some what painted. The approach to this technique is: My second developmental idea for landscape shoots, is the editing process to make landscapes look as I have are paintings, or visa vera: Lastly I could use this same method in order to make portraits and other images, look as though they are painted, by doing thick brush stroke effects or making the image look more abstract and more filled with fine art effects. Additionally As spoken about previously, I want to believe the main version of this is taking pictures of thick paintings, possible inspired by van Gogh and Monet, and making it look as though they could be real people, or real objects. I think this is a very interesting method on how I could start developing my work. My third idea is surreal manipulation to a landscapes. I believe if I were to experiment with how landscape can be altered, in order to have more similar stylistic values to things such as paintings, or piece of more abstract contemporary work, it could be very successful. Surreal manipulation to a landscape to edit. I believe this could further link to making landscape look like altered realities and turned into abstract manipulated paintings. This again showing how far art has the ability to go. These abstract pieces come under many art categories and also shows an understanding of how to develop a piece to see a progression of artistic influence.

Studio shoot :To my mind the studio shoot is the shoot which I know what final outcomes I am really looking for, and even to the extent, this shoot will really help me to develop the rest of my imagery. I have divided this shoot into 5 subcategories of images, which I want to capture and further develop and how and why I believe these executions are the most important. The first is using a glass bowl, or jar, and using this in front of  a face in order to distort and stretch the face. Not only does this once agin show an interest of the element of fine art, but is almost connotes the elements of visible chaos, and showing a trauma to that persons personality. This can also be seen by the work of William Ye.  Another inspiration from Ye will be experimenting with using a flowing piece of fabric, in order to show a structure in the piece. I believe this effortless looking towel and the structure of the body, creates such a successful outcome, and connotes an overlooked power. This sentiment of chaos I believe can also be represented through the effect of people climbing on top of each other, and or forming together to make structures and new bodily forms. This shows a unity of people standing together, and also a combination of family. This leads me onto my representation of chaos, and the acts of people when pulled together in a group, yet still showing the effortlessness of how to form a new stature creating a new art piece.  The last idea which combines fine art, and the media that I can do within a studio, is the editing of faces onto peoples clothes, and using this to effect true feelings, and or editing on events which symbolise trauma or the past of peoples lives. This I believe has a certain contemporary art feel, yet is not done through a painting style. The combination of high fashion within this shoot, also symbolises the beauty industry and  how you have to look a certain why, and what is expected. These geometric shapes, create combinations of cubism and once again this whole shoot linked together with the interposing state of form, composition, and fine art media effect.

family and friends shoot: For the family shoot I  want to both approach this in both a journalism and  unconventional surreal manner. I wish to start off by producing images of many large groups of friends and family, or people who have a close net relationship. I then want to develop these into collages of smudges images, and faces covered and layered with effects, to create a distortion of  identity, but a similarity into the way which they are all covered. An extension from this process, could be family pictures, and portraits collages together, or patterns which have a significance to the families themselves. This could be, a flags or perhaps a pattern made by a grandparent. Anything which is texturised yet still causes a effect fro the family themselves, and an expression of themselves.

chaos: inspiration from the media: Chaos to my mind, is something which causes a feeling which depends an emotional response of panic and madness. It can mostly be seen throughout the media, through articles, fake news or even protests which go too far. These movements are all about conflict of peoples beliefs, because of this, I Believe if I were to layer images of people causing different facial effects, in order to show different emotional and a chaotic feeling expanding and becoming more abstract. This not only builds tension within the image but also shows expressions of human conflict within the images. Secondly a good example of variation and similarity, is watching peoples daily lives, and their own independent news. This could be caught and seen through peoples daily lives, and the activities which they get up too. Street photography is a great way to capture a reality of the people possibly not correctly expressed through the chaotic media, andI  belive this would be a very interesting way to reflect the society which we live within. Chaos can also be shown through more unconventional techniques, these being the light patterns of slow exposure, of perhaps even manipulating a person or landscape, to look or be presented in a unconventional way. This unique approach too seeing the worlds could count as a reflection of mediation and journalism, and the many dimensions which it is possible to see a story or event. You could even explore taking a picture from many different angles, and then experimenting with which angle tells the chosen story most successfully.

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VARIATION AND SIMILARITY SECOND IDEA OF DEVELOPMENT

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Connecting onwards from the fine art side Similarly from the themes of William Ye, I want to focus on the themes of media, and that of chaos. Chaos formed off the premis of fake news, mass inflictions of terror, criticism of others, lack of trust and the lack of equality and accurate representation fo people. This is a large subdivision for a photography perspective, however, in this blog post I purpose to break down how I found these ideas step by step and the way they too successfully link to fine art.

when I was further considering the themes which are very influential within the media, I began to think distancing myself from more of the chaos, and into more of the long danger causes and pains which the media has causes. The mediation of images which only portray the same similar and very limited appearance to look a certain way, and question the extent, should we and are we expected to look and act the same? this leads me onto thinking that mediation and online influence and if it has led us to the destruction of our own minds and capabilities, due to us being stuck thinking and limiting ourselves to certain consciousness. The media subsequently is taking a percentage of our voice, it is regardless to the balance which we need, its such a staged development of the world, this lack of variation has really inflicted peoples opinions, and thirst for success and personal health and mental health issues within themsleves. Media produces a sense of importance around flaws, faults and criticism of ourselves and others. The power overs girls online is something which is unjust, it gives confidence to have less humanity, and allows groups of people to produce their own  acts of terror and chaos and target others, without the fear of prosecution. Coincidentally this presentation of power can too be linked tho the effect of DNA on people and what they do when they have power. These acts of people could also be used as an act of experiment to see prejudice, racism and discriminatory behaviour, and the scientific reasoning of why these actions are still occurring in 2019. However ‘new media’ is giving people their own large platform on social media states, such as instagram , these influences have the power to promote whatever product of system they want onto larger demographics. Their influence had the ability to change peoples perception of themselves as they have unconventionally large beauty standards. And make their young influential audience believe They should too aspire to look like them, despite even them not looking, or having a life that they are being convinced to want. However, the main primary purpose of media is to be an informative news source, and in order to educate people on real life events and happenings across the globe.  These current events are divided into political, social and cultural issues. Huge monumental political movements at the moment can be found within the discussion of fake news, me too, black lives matter, and general movements of feminism and the stretch for equality. However it is interesting the way the media presents each and every one of these subject matters, and which they deem to be more important than others. The media is a huge part of almost everyones everyday lives, because of tis it also successfully links into the study of each individuals everyday and what their actions do and what their consequences are like.

This then links to my next idea of expression of body and face and the relation and similarity seen between the stories and growth of a family. My final and third idea, links well again with the consideration of fine art, and political chaos, and it is the expression of body and face, and how we act towards and with our family, in groups of people. family is the first identity we are given, it is an almost extension of ourselves and who we are associated with for the first many years of our lives. Family is a primary example once agin our our DNA, and also a similarity we are also associated with having to others. Family should be a shared love of multiple support, however, I believe it is also a struggle of lifting and being there for each other. Family could be an investigation as to why and how forms and bonds are created, and more than just a genetic basis of variation .Artistic inspiration that I have found are the two following pieces, both link to the conceptions of media affecting out behaviour, genetics and have a fine art sentiment to them:

I chose this first piece as I belive it once again shows connotations to both a fine art element of abstraction and a clear artistic influence and quality to the photos. Secondly The element of community being all confined to one bonding image, and also how it forms a cohesion of family elements, and or a joined aspect of suffering in this case. It is a variation of a group of people experiencing the same effects of trauma. Additionally this trauma could have been caused by chaos within media. The effect of media fake news, and the reinforcing and constantly addressing of terrorism acts and focusing on the cruelties of the world, is what is seen within these images. A combination of individual views and variations on what they are seeing from the world. I love the effect that was used in these is, I believe it was over exposure, but covered In different fabrics and effects and then the image were near liquified, and formed into a more soft format of photos. 

I chose this image as inspiration, due to many media related images or influencer images being concentrated on photoshoots with females looking to be the main idea of beauty. However I thought this piece was interesting as the high fashion and fine art feel comes through the interesting composition of clothes, the circular shape shows a fluidity to the images, much like many of the artists I have previously spoken about studying, additionally. The face using the eye for direct contact shows a true reflection of herself. Overall I will use these two development ideas for the effect of: combining all fo my three main perspectives, and use this to combine into five staged shoots. to begin my project.