GRÉGOIRE ELOY

Eloy is an independent photographer  since 2003, his projects at the beginning of his career focused upon the boarders along Europe and Central Asia.He now focuses more on connections and immersion into natural landscape and usually concentrates many of his works to be around the channel island. His experimentation within various photographic formats and Digital printing is very interesting to me as it allows many different outcomes to an image. His exhibitions have been seen all around France and Europe and he has been a member of tendance floue collective since 2016. He analysis his images through the use of what he is trying to capture. He tries to capture aspects within the wild that are exciting and concept that exaggerate the images themselves. Such as ; using the comparative for looking through bird’s nests as looking into a nest of ghosts. He has said his main purpose is to repeatedly form a relationship within the land ,he wants to know every aspect of where he is, how the wind blows and how the light is drawn at night. He wants to create a familiarity within his pieces to exhaust the landscape.

I am inserted within the clear relationship and bond he has with what he captures using the camera. The way in which water is used to convey a relationship and movement and light to from layers of dynamic cutting ridges. Occasionally he has a photo of himself submerged within the water, I have previously experimented with this but I think would be effective if I attempted this again.

This piece I believe has a softness to the image, it shows the water not as a different object but as a flowing concept within the rock. He used a slow Sutter speed to not completely liquify the movement but to show a lightness to the image. This is further complimented through the deep contrast of tones showing the highlights and dark tones to enhance each other. 

1. Show critical awareness of the purpose and outcome of the work, and how it has developed over time.
2. Illustrate clearly how the subject matter has been represented
3. Critique the presentation of the work
4. Ensure your blog posts are visually informative and include…

• hyperlinks to appropriate sites and articles
• embedded videos that support / illustrate you research
• definition(s) of “Political Landscape”
• a range of pre-exisiting, alternative approaches to the concept of political landscape

This should help YOU to formulate a plan for the practical element…

overall evaluation;

CHLOE DEWE MATHEWS

Mathews is a photographic artist whose work has been widely exhibited and published in many museums and can be seen wihtin the Tate modern and the Irish museum of modern art. Additionally she has won many awards such as ‘ the British journal of photography’ and many others.

Many of her works are inspired by classic novels and authors such as Mary Shelley. the current project is search of Frankenstein juxtaposition snow covered mountains. She has explored miles of underground corridors and vast melting glaciers that seemed to offer parallels between the book that presents a socio environmental concerns and the anxieties of our time.  Her work presents a conte,prazry sublime which can afford this monumental piece of literature and fresh resonance.

I am fascinated wihtin the reflection and mirroring technique here it divides the image into sections creating a successfully divide image.There is a clear conniption of isolation being reflected wihtin this image and the way in which the cold tones reflect the outermost coldness running throughout the harsh winter scapes. Overall I think this artist approach is very circulated about getting the perfect image in the way of composition and the beauty,there are equal positions throughout and this type of photography  would be considered as the ‘perfect’ or ‘right’ way to accomplish such an image. The tones also have a clear reflection of atmosphere,she will not use black and white as other the colour is a reflection fo scenario.

Compare and contrast their approaches and outcomes and ask yourself…

• what: I would want to use many of the same attitudes that both of these artists show within their art. I want to experiment both of these concepts of capturing nature in order to have a large range of aspects and ideas within my work. I think ,y main attitude will be portraying emotion within nature and humans, this could perhaps be as a contrast or to purpel nature as to have a stronger importance that what is politically deemed.
• how? I will do this by visiting many interesting locations and trying to expand on landscapes perhaps unseen around where i live and not expected, or even showing these places in different circumstances to normal.
• both of these artist re similar in the aspect that they are trying to capture the naturalistic beauty within nature, however they both present there beauty through constructed and unconstructed compositions such as Eloy is a lot more abstract within his framing and he capture the life and movement of nature and not isolating it to a single from.However gregoire eloy is a-lot more focused on capturing the wildness of nature within a landscape and allowing his won self influence of love to be included within his works. Both of these artists take images around areas that they love and feel comfortable because this allows them to create a relationship with themselves and get to know the area that they love. both of these artists take images all year round in order to capture different emotions and aspects given out by the landscape.