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AO1 Develop Ideas, Externally Set Assignment AS, Knowledge and Understanding

ethics of photography within documentary,journalism and surrealism

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There are many codes and conventions within the boundaries of documentary photography and photojournalism,they are in place in order to accurately represent the areas and the people and not culturally mimic and mis-inform an audience due to editing or framing causing mediation and unreliability to the images themselves.

1)representation; is showing the truth and reality and not portraying a misrepresentation of a scenario, this has such great importance in order to  promote the reality of a situation and not a tabloid setting, This in turn looses the impact and relevance of the image,and the trust and  believable aspect within the audience receiving the image from the photographer. Throughout my new stage of work I am going to be focusing upon photo journalism and surrealism.I have chosen this due to the interesting effects in which surrealism carries, how it possess underwired methods to portray my themes of secrets codes and conventions and how I am able to be much more expressive and carry many more unique character traits throughout my work.I am able to symbolize dynamic shapes and an interesting concept of human behavior in order to symbolize the combination of surrealistic and highly conceptual images to symbolize a feeling of secrecy and search for identity between people.However within photojournalism I could also capture a development of everyday people and a feeling their own story and within their family,I can  focus on how a group of people work together and how their behavior effects each other and the way in which they act as a whole community,so sharing the themes I am using in my surrealism shoots also carried throughout photojournalism.

Externally Set Assignment AS

Rut Blees Case Study

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Who is Rut Blees?

Born 1967, Rut Blees Luxemburg is a German photographer who mainly focuses on night photography exploring the urban landscape, and is currently a tutor at the Royal College of Art. Rut Blees is an Urban Aesthetics and a Senior Researcher focusing on the transformation of the Battersea South Campus. Blees’s work concerns how the city is represented and the phenomenons of the urban world, to do this she combines large-scale photographic work using public art installations and operatic mise-en-scene.  Blees uses long exposure to allow the use of light that emanates from office blocks and street lights within her photos, with many of the photos printed dealing with nocturne themes.

Some of her recent projects included Silver Forest (2016) which shoot based on the western facade of the Westminster City Hall, and London Dust (2011-13) which was a series of photographs and a film that time-lapsed the rapid architectural transformation of London City, this led to the production for the iconic cover of The Streets Original Pirate Material.

 Some examples of her work can be seen below:Fototagetrier

Once creating a contact sheet I decided to analyse one of her images to see what made them so effective.

Technical: Within the image the floors of the car park spaces are used as a border to highlight the actual focus of the image, the slightly dim ground floor. This is done through the use of contrast between the sides of the building and the floor itself which uses yellow tinted lights to emphasis certain aspects of the concrete around it, with the grays and blacks in the picture they stop the yellows from overpowering the entire image creating an aesthetically pleasing photograph as a result.

Visual: Visually the images colours compliment each other, balancing each other so that the piece is not too over powering to look at. The piece is also taken looking down to the floor from a high view-point whilst being taken at an angle, by doing this it creates a spiraling impression inside the image from how more it’s revealed or concealed the further into the image you look.  Due to this composition and use of soft yellow lights it replaces any chance of it becoming eye sore that would usually be linked to concrete buildings such as car parks.

Conceptual: The image taken is meant to explore the aesthetics within an urban environment not usually seen without a closer and more observant look. It also explore the use of lights to emphasize or dull certain parts of a photograph to create a focus point which is not too overpowering as a result.