The issues which I want to discuss through my work conceptually are how the narrative needs to be a strong part of current affairs and  or a concept that will affect the future and shape our lives. I want to create a dynamic brainstorm and think of points that will possibly effect myself and others around me in the future. I think I will take more of a personal affect such as how people are directly effected through human rights, civil rights, living conditions and reflections of mental health within people. I could then show how all of these issues are effected by politics and the government. I think by using interesting techniques such as conceptual and narrative will creatively represent these tough topics and drawing in more attention from an audience.

Artistic inspiration-Jaakko Kahilaniemi

Kahilaniemi Is a creative artist  who uses more conceptual styles in order to present a landscape to evoke emotion and a general theme. Although this art is purely landscape based with no involvement of people I still however think the editing and overall direction is highly interesting.

I have chosen this artists because with each stage of his work he has a clear theme and goal as to what he wants to connote.  He always wants to visualise a complex and contradictory relationship between man and nature and the how mankind is a manner in how natures cycle works. His work attempts to make a sense of peace between humans and nature in some type of way. To my mind I think there is a huge aspect of purity within his work, the colours of light and show a more delicate approach to the harsh power of nature but yet a soft movement of how men and nature form together. The artist clearly has such a strong open mindfullness and this visual research is always drawn to radical interference. There is a force present within his work without man or nature being overpowered by one and another. He shows vast amounts of trees in order to show the aftermath of a forest fire, this directness challenges visual secrets and consider how work and an image can fit into a much wider context.

This is one of my favourite pieces of work buy this artist. It is meant to be a reflection of adulthood from man within the forest and the future inheritance to future explorations in the forest. The artist has said this piece is a ‘tangible and intangible’ approach to visualisations. There is a clearly more personal connection as to what he himself thinks  a forest means to him and how the study of nature has now been seen irrelevant to those who are urbanised. This new way of thinking though an arbitrary mix shows various types of pictures moulded into one larger visual entity. You can see traces all over vast lands overlapped within each other and how this experimentation has led to an understanding and awareness of what nature is to himself and what beauty it can be combined to make. This image is a gateway of core imagination. This project is purely based off finding objects and also a sense of emotion and creating a visual secret within the image itself. I find this fascinating and that it works hugely well. 

He rarely combines people within his work but when he does he also attributes many of their characteristics to that of nature and the combination of something that is usually perceived as beautiful presented in an uncharacteristic manner. I think I could further experiment with these ideals as they are quite conceptual and would make highly interesting images.  I additionally think using a mixture of tonal and exposure to focus on light is very successful.

Documentary/narrative

The fist type of photography I want to look at is documentary/narrative photography :when concentrating on the type of photography that is narrative, I want to be able to tell a story through each image and  person being photographed. Interesting context will always tell a story.  Although it is important to think about what is included within the images themselves. when focusing  on different elements of narrative there are different aspects which are important to convey, these are: if there is more than one person in a photo you need to convey a relationship, this should be naturally done through observation. However if there is one person an alternative is to show a relationship interacting with someone outside the frame. Social communication is one of the defining characteristics of being human, and narrative stories have long been a common and powerful mode for transmitting information.

A narrative should show a sense of connected events and a reflection of how these people or places are connected in photography  narrative is related to the idea of context. comprehensive narrative appears it will always be the product of including some elects and excluding others. Inclusion and exclusion to me will be about the angle and composition to which I should kale the image in order to connote a scenario and a feeling to the viewer themselves.

• introducing the location
• giving the story a ‘face’
• letting people tell their own story
• contextualizing those stories
• following a dramatic form

From this basic construct I then need to think bout the behind the scenes and reasoning and consequence of the image occurrence, for this I will think of an issue, events movements, who the characters are and why they are there in a context. I think my primary concern of experimentation now is to form a sense of ideas surrounding  political landscapes. When thinking of political landscapes I instantly think of people and they way in which they are living in a specific scenario. My main concentration though is I want my images to be interesting, I do not want boring images which do not make people question anything because this is not a successful narrative style.

Creative / conceptual

My second area that I am going to concentrate on is studying is Creative / conceptual (includes tableaux approaches),I have chosen this approach  as said previously I want my images to be extraordinary interesting and eye catching and draw people attention to question why the image was taken and the connotations behind the image itself. I want each image to be uniquely powerful in its composition, meaning and explore composition and light within the images. More abstract genres like conceptual photography can seem vague and even confusing, especially for beginners. What does a conceptual photo look like, exactly? And how can you know whether your photo fits that label?

My main intention is to try and visualize a concept similarly to narrative documentary expect this is a-lot more staged in order to create a specific effect and message not specifically effecting that person themselves. Although As a methodology conceptual photography is a type of photography that is staged to represent an idea. The ‘concept’ is both preconceived and, if successful, understandable in the completed image

Moodboard of inspiring images:

This mood board is full of conceptual ideas, I think it is more important to plan creative shoots as narrative and documentary is a-lot more natural in capturing occurring scenarios. I am slightly more drawn towards people within the alternative landscapes as I think this allows a more interesting compositions and a new insight and important area to look at study.