- To start off this project I first want to expand on the ideas given to myself through the introductory exam spectrum, and additionally doing research into the meaning behind the words themselves, in order to achieve the most accurate representation of the topic I will be looking into.
- variation – is a change or slight difference in condition, amount, or level, typically within certain limits. ” regional variations in house prices” this could be further divided into the consideration for words such as: difference, dissimilarity, disparity, inequality, contrast, disc-repay, imbalance, dissimilitude, differential, distinction.
- This portrayal of variation being something which many people have yet only a small occurrence of changes. To my mind, this is quite interesting as not only does variation symbolise change, but, it also must first have the premiss of belonging to a similar group. Variation is also of great importance, as it has many different meanings dependent on the subject matter, such as; in science it is a difference between individuals, However in music it’s a formal technique repeated.The second way of consideration is: a different or distinct form or version of something., “hurling is an Irish variation of hockey” : variant, form, alternative, alternative form, other form, different form, derive, form, development, adaptation, alteration, modification, revision, revised version. This portrayal of difference and similarity of something that already exists could come under researching into different disorders which people have, and how this affects their personality traits. looking into the development of how people change and act dependent on their environment and the success or downfall of their upbringing. These small experiences and traits which have such a large control upon how people vary and change from each other.
- Variation is considered to fall under the categories of human, species, biology, and evolution.The definition of similarity is: the state or fact of being similar, a similar feature or aspect.”the similarities between people of different nationalities” resemblance, likeness, sameness, similar nature, similitude, comparability, correspondence, comparison, analogy, parallel, parallelism, equivalence; “the similarity of symptoms makes them hard to diagnose”
- Despite the clear oppositional differences between similarity variation, they are both depicted in the same manner. This being they both are established by the same defying factors of humans, DNA and language. This means that both are deemed to be very scientific. However this does not mean to have this project has to remain scientific, if anything, it lends to be more interesting to see the development of how these factors have the capabilities to change and evolve throughout the process.
Below are some artistic inspiration of possible effects which are artistic and I could too link to variation and similarity. 
like Matthew Brandt: used by Sally Mann via Edwynn Houk Gallery: The artistic above are listed here, and I have also included some links of inspiration for my
Lewis Bush (born 1988 in London) is a British photographer, writer, curator and educator. Bush studied history at the University of Warwick and gained a master’s degree in documentary photography from London College of Communication, where he lectures on photojournalism and documentary photography. In his work bush seeks to draw attention to forms of invisible power that operate in the world – such as finance. Bush has the standpoint that ‘power is always problematic because it’s natural resting state is arbitrary and untransparent’. Bush’s projects tend to incorporate writing and he has written about photography for a range of national and international print and web titles.
The main project by Bush that interests me is ‘Metropole’ in which he used a technique of double exposure. The project looks at the collapse of the British Empire and how in its place globalised capitalism grew as London has been rebranded as “a city of demolition, cranes, and glittering new high rises”. ‘Metropole’ aims to record the effect of this on London through the form of documentary photography. This appeals to me and links to the theme ‘Variance and Similarity’ because it explores the fact that there are an increasing amount of large buildings for offices or flats taking away from green land and so the landscape in which we live is turning into a repetitive view of similar flats and offices leaving citizens with a feeling of monotony as everything is being redeveloped to serve the same purpose. Bush’s work on ‘Metropole’ shows a lot of emphasis on the repetition between buildings due to his double exposure effect. I intend to respond to this work by capturing blocks of flats or offices, both in day and at night and then altering the photographs in photoshop to replicate the buildings and create a pattern of repetition throughout the edits. These edits will show how buildings can look different individually but a lot of them can be very boring and repetitive.
Huang Qingjun is a Chinese photographer who has photographed families posing with their possessions amid China’s dash to become rich. He has spent nearly a decade travelling to remote parts of China to persuade people who have never been photographed to carry outside all their household possessions and pose for him. The results of this product are glimpses of the different lives and belongings of different families within China. The pictures have not been widely seen outside of China although some have been shown at exhibitions in Paris and New York.
Huang was inspired as a teenager by an uncle when the typical hobbies for the Chinese youth were calligraphy and singing. The idea for the series about people’s material good, called ‘Jiadang’ (family stuff). first came in 2003 with some photographs that he took for the magazine Chinese National Geography but the project didn’t start properly until three years later, when Huang started travelling around China looking for suitable people. Huang says that “Most people thought what I was proposing was not normal” but most people understood the point at the end of it. Most of the people in these poor, remote areas did not have many possessions making the project both simpler and more interesting. Some of the projects took a couple of days whereas others took several months. Next year marks the 10th anniversary of the first photograph, and Huang plans to mark it by returning to the places he visited to see how they have changed. Huang also hopes to broaden the project’s range upon revisiting it by including people from a wider range of backgrounds, such as government officials.
The German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, who began working together in 1959 and married in 1961, are best known for their “typologies” which are grids of black-and-white photos of variant examples of a single type of industrial structure. The couple traveled around Germany taking images of the industrial building from the same distance and angle so when the images where arranged they all looked very similar. At first glance someone may mistake the images for being the same image when in-matter-of-fact they are all different images.
different size and shape of people’s hands and especially the different lines in the palms of hands and possibly fingerprints. This could product some abstract up close photographs or photographs showing the whole hand. I could experiment with colouring the hands with ink in order to emphasise the features of the hands. I could also experiment with printing the photographs then putting materials such as coloured string along the hand lines to emphasise the lines. This could lead me to look at other natural lines on the human body including veins. An artist that I could look at relating to this subject is Tim Booth who did a project titled ‘A Show of Hands’.
