For the project I want to do more research into the spiritual aspects of photography, and how to photograph a world that isn’t really there. And small details of everyday life can be seen as a thing of beauty. Rather than photographing whole frames of landscape images, I plan to capture my images with a more abstract view. Many of the images in the mood board have been taken on film cameras, as this is something I have always had an interest in this aspect of photography but never really experiment that far into it so this will be a challenge for me. I also love the colours tint that film camera give to the images. But the main aim of the project is for me to take a different approach on the way that I see the island.

Craig Easton is a Scottish photographer who, through his works, explores identity and the sense of place.

Within the documentary tradition his work often combines expansive landscapes with intimate portraits. He often contextualizes his photographs by offering the protagonists of his portraits the possibility of expressing their own voice through handwriting that he incorporates into the final images.
He received the Cutty Sark Award for World Travel Photographer of the Year 2012/13, and most recently the Landscape award at Travel Photographer Award of the Year 2016/17.

The project ‘Sixteen’ is a collaboration project with 16 photographers from around the UK, with the leader as Craig Easton. The main object of the project is to give a voice to the younger generation, to let them speak about their dreams, fears, ambitions and hopes for the future. With the project the photographers hope to photograph a range of different upbringings, social backgrounds, ethnicity, gender and locations.

The idea of the project came in 2014 when Scotland was holding a Referendum for Independence from the UK, this was the first and only time ever that sixteen were given the right to vote in a government vote in the history of the UK. Craig went and photographed young people who’s birthday was on the day of the referendum ( September 18th, 2014) .

As the project developed he went and photographed sixteen years around the areas of Liverpool and North Wales from a cross-section of society. The images range from the Traveler community to recent refugees from Iran and Syria, he asked the participants to write their own testimony on the fears that they where facing to give them the change to speak openly without a filter. Craigs approach of presenting the handwritten texts alongside the photographs was adapted by the entire group of 15 photographers working on “Sixteen.” But many of them are exploring other methods audio, video of giving these young people a voice in addition to the texts.

The running theme throughout my project is photo-montage, The main use of photo-montage is to see the many ways in which you can manipulate an image. Photo-montage has its roots in the Dadaism movement. Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I in around 1916 and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war. Its output was wildly diverse, ranging from performance art to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting, and collage. Dada’s aesthetic, marked by its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, proved a powerful influence on artists in many cities, including Berlin, Hanover, Paris, New York, and Cologne, all of which generated their own groups. The movement dissipated with the establishment of Surrealism, but the ideas it gave rise to have become the cornerstones of various categories of modern and contemporary art.

Dada was the first conceptual art movement where the focus of the artists was not on crafting aesthetically pleasing objects but on making works that often upended bourgeois sensibilities and that generated difficult questions about society, the role of the artist, and the purpose of art. So intent were members of Dada on opposing all norms of bourgeois culture that the group was barely in favor of itself: “Dada is anti-Dada,” they often cried.

One of the key figures in the Dada movement was artist was Hans Arp. He made a series of collages based on chance, where he would stand above a sheet of paper, dropping squares of contrasting colored paper on the larger sheet’s surface, and then gluing the squares wherever they fell onto the page.  The technique arose when Arp became frustrated by attempts to compose more formal geometric arrangements. Arp’s chance collages have come to represent Dada’s aim to be “anti-art” and their interest in accident as a way to challenge traditional art production techniques. 
The lack of artistic control represented in this work would also become a defining element of Surrealism as that group tried to find paths into the unconscious whereby intellectual control on creativity was undermined

The final outcomes of this project are going to have two overlapping images of the same location, in contrasting weather to create an image which is similar but greatly different at the same.

For this shoot I went to four different locations around the island, for this shoot I need to take two sets of images, essential a before and after set of images. The first set of images are going to be of icon jersey landscapes on a day where the weather isn’t the nicest, so cloudy and windy. The next set of image are going to be taken during the summer time, when the weather is nicer. I will then get these two images and create images similar to the one above. Overall I think that the shoot went really well, from the shoot I got a range of different types of images, some of them the weather is very dark and cloudy whereas in others the landscape is very dramatic and almost looks like and image from the Romanticism period.

These images are only first experiments, to figure out which designs/patterns look the best, I have overlapped some of the designs with other images from the shoot to have an idea of what the final outcomes of the project are going to look like.

John Baldessari was a key figure in the Conceptual art movement that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s, emphasizing ideas, language, and performative actions over the formal preoccupations of painting.

. In his black and white video, I am Making Art, made in 1971, Baldessari takes a humorous and ironic look at the extremes of such a position. This work is an example of post-modernism art, this movement was coined in the mid to late 1900’s, it is a reaction against modernism; a movement that was based on idealism and achieving a Utopian vision, modernist artists wanted to reflect the real world through what they create. Post-modernism denied the idea that there is any single way or definition of what art should be, viewers have their own interpretation of the art due to their own unique experiences. Another aspect of post-modernism is that it takes pieces of different past styles. I am Making Art is post-modern in the way that Baldesarri has created something that everyone interprets differently and especially in the way that he is aware of this

In 1970, Baldessari and some friends burnt all of the paintings he had created between 1953 and 1966 as part of a new piece, titled The Cremation Project. The ashes from these paintings were baked into cookies resulting in an art installation consisting of a bronze plaque with the destroyed paintings’ birth and death dates, as well as the recipe for making the cookies. Through this project, Baldessari draws a connection between artistic practice and the human life cycle. For me this project brings to life his quote of ‘no more bboring art’, as the idea does sound very boring at first as it it an active that you seen being done every way, but I do think that the images are actually very interesting to look at.

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect, he was born in 1948 in Tokyo. He took his earliest photographs in high school, photographing film footage of Audrey Hepburn as it played in a movie theater. He leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm ‘New Material Research Laboratory’. Sugimoto has spoken of his work as an expression of ‘time exposed’, or photographs serving as a time capsule for a series of events in time. His work also focuses on transience of life, and the conflict between life and death. His work includes photographs of waxwork-museum figures, drive-in theaters, and Buddhist sculptures, all of which similarly blur distinctions between the real and the fictive. Sugimoto is also deeply influenced by the writings and works of Marcel Duchamp, as well as the Dadaist and Surrealist movements as a whole.

David Prentice

David Prentice was a English born painted who died aged 77, had an unusual trajectory as an artist. In the 1960s, when he was one of the founders of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, his work was hard-edged, abstract, close to the Op art of a period when young artists and architects were full of ideas for new beginnings. David’s art was about new forms, his hero Piet Mondrian.

His subject for the majority of his work was the Malvern Hills of Worcestershire he knew these hills very well as he took many walks over these hills in which he always had his sketchpad in hand. The forms of the hills were a constant, the weather constantly changing. He painted with the concern for structure and surface that had characterized his earlier work. The watercolors, often done on the spot, were more specific but the paintings done in the studio were as carefully constructed as ever.
His range of landscapes expanded to include dramatic cityscapes of London, The river themes, and the landscape of Skye, Lake District and the Welsh mountains.

I think that there is a clear connection between the works of David Practise and Hiroshi Sugimoto , they both take more of an abstract approach when looking and a landscape. In both of their works there is an absence of any man made structure, do it makes their works have a lack of identification to them, although we are able to guess where the work is based off, as to where the artist live and work. However their works do have a graet contrast between them, Prentice paints with a wide range of colour and the vibrancy of the colour is a noticeable feature of his work. Whereas the lack of colours in Hiroshi Sugimoto work is what makes his work more interesting a re in forces the sense of life and death in his work.

https://www.kensukekoike.com/

Kensuke Koike is a Japanese contemporary artist, currently living in Slovenia, widely known for his exceptional skills in collage making.The Japanese artist has thus developed a certain taste for image destructuring. These new images have therefore their own independent life, barely connected to that of the original photos, showing that in the end everything depends on our point of view of reality and what we take into consideration. In kensuke’s images none of the images only moved around, which is a philosophy that he applies to all o this work “nothing is removed, nothing is added”. When editing my images inspired by his wok I will try to work by this same philosophy.

For example take an old portrait of a loving couple, cut their eyes out, switch them around and the relationship takes a new direction. This is what Kensuke’s work is about getting a new perspective on the way that images can be viewed. The image above is taken from his project in collaboration with Thomas Sauvin ‘No More No Less’ which is a photobook which was published last November. The publication came about after Koike was invited to work with Sauvin’s archive of old images that he recovered from Beijing silver-recycling centres.

The images where made by an unknown Shanghai University photography student in the 1980s, simple black-and-white studio headshots that have an evenness of style, tone and lighting throughout.

http://www.tyhereading.com/

Tyhe Reading is a professional photographer and graphic designer located in Melbourne, Victoria. With a focus on sustainability, Tyhe captures his subjects in a way that is truly representative of the experience.  He first started taking images at aged 14 but really found his passion for the subject and deiced to peruse it as a full-time career when he was 17. His photography works stems from his childhood of growing up on the Coast, admiring the natural environment in ways that had to be captured with a camera. This crosses over into his design work as he tries to incorporate his love for the natural environment and geometric structures into his designs.

This image was taken during golden hour using natural lighting to capture the image. You can tell this because the light that is being reflected of the sea and the mist in the background of the image had a golden tint to it which would only happen during golden hour which is either sunset or sunrise. The shutter speed would have been around 1/40 1/100 to make sure that the waves are in focus and sharp. The main focus of the image is the triangle in the center which has then been cut up using different parts of the image to create a geometric effect. There isn’t much texture in this image as the waves in the foreground are very smooth and sleek, however a bit of texture can bee seen in the background of the image with the rocks but mainly only the silhouette can be seen. Overall the image is very light the only dark tones in the the high raise of the wave and the outline of the rocks in the background

Photoshoot edits 

Geometric Landscapes is a series of landscapes overlaid with geometric shapes. The design is very attention grabbing from a viewers perspective. To make the design effective and look sleek, the editing process needs be be very precises with measurements and relies heavily on symmetry.

I began to experiment with some images that I had previous taken from other shoots and began to experiments with different designs to see which the most effective.

When I was coming back to Jersey through Gatwick airports I saw adverts for HSBC, which gave me inspiration of what I could do in my project.

In the images, there are two images that have been laid on top of each other to create a binary opposition, so in this image it is a Cherry blossom tree in the winter when the tree is bare and then in the spring/summer when the tree is out in full bloom. I thought that this was a very effective photography technique. Which I think is very fitting with the theme of the exam project ‘Variation and Similarity’

The campaign by advertising company Saatchi & Saatchi  aims to bring to life HSBC’s role in “connecting the world”, and boost awareness of its “Together we thrive” brand promise, which launched earlier this year.

Each ad offers a view of a global scene relating to the bank’s business priorities – from trade and education to diversity and sustainability – as seen through the lens of HSBC’s “hexagon” logo. Topics include rooftop farming practices in New York, community cycling in the UK and food markets in Hong Kong.

A series of 79 different creative executions will roll out across 17 airports in nine countries – including Heathrow and Gatwick – covering 1,500 jet bridges and 94km of passenger walkways. HSBC claims the ads will be seen by 900 million passengers this summer alone.

“We do talk about having that intelligent wit, that wry sense of humour. Keeping that tone has been important. You want the consumers to work a little bit, both from a visual perspective and also with what words we might use. [We want] people to stop and say, ‘Oh’, and to get the slight joke,” said by Leanne Cutts, HSBC’s group head of marketing,