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breaking the rules of reality:possibilty, dependecy and circumstances

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After much research I believe personally that reality is the form of three situations, possibility, dependency and circumstances within action.

Possibility to me is the chance of reality. Reality is not a given or something you are able to predict. Such as being older than someone does not stop the younger person from dying first. These harsh truths show the possibility of we do not know what effects, illness or situations we will come through during our life. Possibility is also a large part of chance, chance is something uncontrollable, and no one can know what the chance of something happening is. Because of this I think it would be interesting to capture some scenarios that capture how everything in life is a risk and matter of timing. this could be a balloon before it burst or perhaps the weather before a storm or even adding my concept of political emotions showing a narrative of something getting evicted or possible literally falling down. When I researched It come up within many fast shutter speed shots in order to cpature the action a apiece has. However I could focus on the side of nature and the beauty nature holds, And the chance something incredible would happen in nature, this could be a sun set or rise, people having twins and many occasions that would not be expected to happen in peoples realities. 

This has forever been an ongoing concept, because of this I believe using achieve pictures and editing them in such a way to demonstrates the circumstance of reality would be incredibly interesting.Dependency is the relationships people have within each other and how their actions cause a dependent reaction which causes the reality. This is a sense of action and reaction. dependency also has strong implementations of a weight. This weight could be the cause of emotional trauma, political instances or a literal weight and harsh imapct. This is a clear demonstration of the balancing of nature and the relationship of trust. I could use this narrative to track people and one person calling and showing clear demonstrations of trust and someone being dependent. however I could enlarge this through a large political instance of who everyone in the world is infact dependent on eeach other. We as a society cannot and will not be able to functions without eachers, as they help with medicine ,housing, money, economy but most importantly we need ot look after other. I think a large ignorance of dependency and a fault at our core is ignorance. How the western world ignorances the cries of those in need in the south and east.

circumstances. This is the godly benefit of being born in a circumstance better than others. Circumstance is also the determinate of where you are when and how this could lead onto the causation of what happens to you. No one has the ability to control who their family is or where stye are born and raised. Because of this many negative an unhappy relationships are formed,this could be caused but he environment people are in or they way in which people treat them.  Circumstances comes into the attitude of nature and fire very well into political landscape as it is an area governmentally controlled differently as you would like. Because of this many people, including some people in my family feel as though this is where they are not meant to be, Is this fate or a disappointing circumstance of action.

plan for shoot:

I want to create a alternate reality. To do so I will create an atmosphere that does not really exists, and capture actions that only happened for a s second and not what people would usually focus upon. tThe editing will be highly conceptual and forms ways in which is unconventional to portray the landscape itself. I will use my idea of circumstances by taking images where I was raised,This is my home, which I did not have a choice over but luckily the circumstances was not negative. However I think dependency goes hand in hand in capturing a reality of a place.  trust and dependency is usually something seen within people, however I think I could relate this t landscape and nature and also further expand this to the power if nature of man itself. lastly I want to capture possibility and capturing rare photos us using fast shutter speed and such. This will be very different from my family shoot, however still based in my family home, but will relate more to political landscapes through these conceptual ideas and editing processes.

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2nd photoshoot on reality

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As said in my previous post I wanted to capture a almost less sentimental type of reality and include my next three main interests of, circumstances,dependency and chance. I wanted to use these conceptual ideas to relate to both my previously project on family and then also have a stronger level of signification to that of political landscape. My main original aims of this shoot was to show how to capture the movement of water as this contains many elements of the three words I am focusing on. I wanted to communicate many different angles and places which I would normally not venture. I decided it would be interesting to flip images and add lines into the images to add contextual methods into it.

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edits:

I wanted to add in these small white dots as this is what I have done previously experimented with in my political landscape alternate conceptual editing. 

within here I found a really interesting old structure of bars in a highly interesting composition,Additonally I found a water covered web of water which I thought created an area of interest.

within these water shots I wanted to capture the movement of the water itself, and sometimes even repeatedly showing the drop of water repeatedly dropping. I decided to edit these images into black and white as I did not want the colour to be a distraction of the composition of the images itself. 

This is my third image where I mirrored and flipped the image itself, I wanted to do this as I think the final outcome it produces has an interest of simplicity yet intrigue. I wanted to capture this image originally as I though the suture of the plant was so repetitive and structurally well formed, and how this contrasted against the background,and the light tonal sky. 

anylsis:Overall this shoot was less so capturing a direct narrative and more about trying to communicate ideas of form and how to edit in interesting mannerisms to capture the conceptual of reality.

with this project I had two main artist inspirations of…one fo which was very family and pain orientated,it was quite philosophical in the questioning of no on knows what reality really is as we all have a different concept and view of our own lives and own realities. However the second artists wanted to create images which she wanted to happen or was surprised that was happening somewhere in the world in the modern 20th century, She purpose how large companies would demonstrate a country as being modern and forward thinking and ignoring the true reality of factors such as poverty and starvation.  Because of these two clear divisions of ideas of family and not knowing the reality of what people are feeling and they way in which trauma can effect you, to how chance and reality can be predicted.Although I wanted to add my won these into both shoot so using archival images from my past family and then forming reality,around my house and capturing the dependency and effector different relates and possibly adding in themes if conceptual manipulation. from this I decided to brainstorm and experiment with what I think breaking reality means to me.I then got the three main ideas of, dependancy, possibility and chance. I think my first shoot was successful, I think I successful recreated the structure of the artists form and also conceptually edited my photos and to have and area of interest wihtin them. My second shoot was much more conceptual wihtin the thought of the structure and an essence of abstract structure I order to strip away any sense of reality.

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breaking the rules: reality, planning for shoot

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Development:

For my shoot I decided I would go down the road of peter Watkins ideas and I think they Are more possible to communicate in the environment I am in. However I do think It would beneficial if I did present a certain narrative and experimented within a minority of representations seen within school,Or even an experimentation with the prediction fo what will happen in the future, how and the Over not everyone will be interested or know about these events as they would be subject relevance to me and not of relevance to those people I am studying.For my second shoot I want to take a possible studio tablo type shoot and present political  issues such as (hospital in jersey, or political governmental issues in jersey).

 

Shoot images:

 

 

Edits:

Within this image I wanted to capture  a simplicity and delicacy to the image in order to mimic the young and innocent age of my brother at the time. I thought I would enhance the photo by using as tape as this too develops a story and narrative to the image and holds past realities and truths. This narrative is highly interesting to me and is purposes the possible narrative of my family never having me in it. It shows the relationships there before myself and me and the destruction of the truth and reality of what my family was previous.

I used this image as i had no connection with any of the people within this image. These were my grandparents when they were young who I never met.

I believe the  editing within this images purposes a question of the relativity of relationships and when they are formed and how they can easily be broken. The reality is of the division is a connotation of the physical emotional differences all of these people had.

As previously said my main inspiration or this first breaking the rules shoot was inspired by peter Watkins. I thought I would focus on the reality of my parents lives and hw what i think their lives are currently only consists f me being in it, However the majority of their life was with me absent from it. Because of this is used images of their wedding day and my brother who is 4 years older then myself. I wanted to use the same editing technique with repeating different sections of images throughout. I decided the majority of my images work more successful when in black and white as they concentrate on the character themselves. I have recently read the book ‘Camera lucida’ by  Stuart hall and he said something about photography that stuck with me. It is that the punctum is never the most obvious sections within an image. I believe that within my images This power is often metonymic, this means t be that the thinking eye will dd something to the image  itself, this could be a false sense  of reality and adding your own narrative to an image. What a stubbornly sees is different small section, with showing only these small contexts of the images it allows chemical reactions t develop an essence of the wound and memory from the photo itself. What we cannot be repeated but only transformed but only repeated under the instances of insistence. With moving image you aren’t allowed to shut your eyes as the movement goes quickly and you are unable to see the details. But within this shoot I want to discover a different image every-time  I look at the same photo. I believe the concept of reality in this shot is the different truths and stories each would tell who are in the same image. Images such as this also question the future of what will happen, as said previously you cannot predict the future as what you think will be true can ch age in an instance. I will further develop the concept of instances and who a small change can effect the future and impact of a person or being. 

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second artist: and Cristina de Midde

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Cristina de Middel  is a Spanish  documentary artist who is currently living and working in Mexico. She has self published many of her works and has focused on many different projects such as the southern Africa space program . Her work is critically acclaimed and she had sold out many of her books ad  works across the world. She has been nominated for many huge photography prizes all around the globe. Her work is an ongoing investigation to focus on the ambiguous relationship of what is the truth. She blends her views od documentary and conceptual phoqogorhic practises, she does this through practising with the reconstruction of archetypes and her found burr of what is reality and what is fiction. Her photojournalistic gaze as an outsider allows her to create views which she can presently see within the landscape she is is innovate with her work creates critically acclaimed series , such as the image above which focuses on a failed program for space. this could come onto terms of predicting the future of presenting a false sense or recreating an occasion that is happening elsewhere in the world. Her stages reenactments and obscure narratives allow a continuously interesting new body of work. Her work is that of fiction but can serve as a subject relative to todays world. Her photography can work just as well as being fact as it highlights our expectations of how reality is flawed. Her exhibitions are international and have won the prize for infinity award and the international centre award. 

To me the image above has a child like sense of a false sense of reality and the hope and childlike ignorance a child has. This is mirrored through the handmade costume and the stance which conveys power and confidence. The angle of the photo being a low shot also attributes power to the man, it shows a confidence and his gaze perhaps highlights a longing for a reality that will probably never happen. The atmosphere to which they are surrounded is relative to the location of Africa and them having a space program in such a poor area. The light tonal colours of the outfit creates such a strong juxtaposition to the atmosphere itself and shows the artists disagreement of political standards and corruption within the government structure of their properties. It shows a false reality to the people of Africa and thinking they have an opportunity to be part of this space program but it is not a possibility.

I believe this piece is very interesting in how to shows a false reality .I believe that the person  look secure, and composed, and how this is not an accurate scenario to someone who too would be faced with many bugs such as this. The image contains a beauty within these horrible bugs that would scare many people. This image symbolises the death and ignorance and suffering people have to live with.Her images purpose a sense of reality throughout he false tablo images which are obviously set up but insure a deep meaning. it interests me the way in which all of her work contains and obscure image with an equally as obscure narrative story within it too.

Midde had a realisation that her work did not have enough impact. because of this she stopped believing in raising awareness by pointing out the problem. She wanted to start a debate within her images and see how many different approaches she could take in order to start the making of a solution. She has said ‘ straight documentary photography is about imposing an opinion (that comes from mass media’s agenda) and the audience has very little to add to it, and the dimension of the problem makes it impossible to react’Because of this imposing a different reality were she promotes a solution and not the problem itself there is a new dynamic and an essence of courage within her work.The language employed when searching the chronicle of the world is outdated, the reaction is no longer the same. People are no longer impressed by the document itself and some contexts needs to be provided. Midde wanted to ‘include my opinion and my vision of things in the way I try to explain the world.’ The inspiration of her work is generating a context from newspapers, magazines and then sharing it she portrays as a selfish process. Midde stays on the surface because she believes this is the most interesting subject to a topic, due to it being a visible concept. It enables people to see a problem and understand it a-lot better . This is how her work presents a new reality to so many because it is not meant to show a problem, but easily present a solution.

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breaking the rules: reality: artist: peter watkins.

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Peter watkins

Watkins is a visual artists based in London, his work within photography started with his autobiographical elements incorporating sculptor, and spatial elements. His work is always about achieving a mediated practice of how a certain material is perceives and lost throughout different processes and time.Many of his works are award winning and can be found in many exhibitions And collages across Europe.

Many of his works are based off a memory from when he was younger. This includes when he was driving down a long straight road and how within the weather conditions the vision is dull and grey. He has vidid memories of what people wear are occasions listing ‘ My mother is seated front left, in the passenger side, and my father is driving, wearing a merino jumper with interconnecting diamond shapes; the kind golfers wear.’ He suggests he has a strong interest in time and the way in which people age and die. His view of immortal life has been occurrent since he was 2; he purposes the almost obvious ideal that the older you are the sooner you will die. However he is soon saying that it was not true and his mother killed herself. ‘Some months later my mother would end up walking into the North Sea, her final act in a series of events that came to sum up her final few months of life.’ This to me emphasis the reality of life and how aversions are confused with the expectations that we hold. It was not a true reality to expect his father to live longer. He talks much about the reality of life being held within memories and time and everything else is built around this.’The memories of this time, and what is built around it, creates a foundational narrative of sorts that I can accept to some degree as authentic’

His memories are coloured by recollection, through telling stories seen within images he is able to bare a rhythm and structure of the narrative fiction. He has said ‘ recollections are transfigured by narrative but also brought to life by them’ There is a purity of memory yet this is not a consistent sense of reality. No matter how authentic something might seem it is no more than a insufficient narrative which is incomplete with assumptions. Because of this nothing is reality so why should our photography be made to convey the truth and the exact reality when this is not possible as it is a view of our voice as a reflection of our own reality.

His project ‘The Unforgetting’ is his culmination of works seen through years of work. It allows his trauma and emotions surrounding the loss of his mother to be associated with the history of memory. He bounds his photography up into objects, places and people which are too associated with the family.

The interests for me within his work is how she shows a surface as an outward appearance and an exterior boundary. This work successful shows what the camera is seen to be faced with and yet shows what photography is able to unveil through these images.  His images not only communicate . A story and emotion of his self inflicted pain but also many highlight a texture and a from, this is done in a way to pick away the exterior or who or what we are and depthen the understanding and communicate who people really are through their history and belongings.

many of his images question the possibility of what lies beyond. To my mind his works presents a person or object and instead of us agreeing with what he sees he wants us to ask but what is beyond this image or within the person or inside the cave. We should not agree with what we are given because this isn’t a clear representation fo reality but we should search within what we see int he image to tell us more. I think this image above is fascinating. The complex and deliberate composition focus on areas which belong and are of significance to the man himself.

What I want to take from his work is the way in which he successful conveys a families history and presents it in such a way to show how a memory is subject and not the presentation of a real Occassion. I believe i too will take his ideas os using old family photos and object to present the person in my own reality which might not be directly theres. He uses much of his work to explore a connection to his past and things which you expect are not how they happen.

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Breaking the rules planning: reality

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Research and notes from lewis bush article:

What I was inspired by through Lewis bush’s ‘eight rules’.  The only way to tell them is to take a few risks, break all the rules and pioneer a new way of seeing the world. posing his subjects, manipulating his prints, and often becoming dangerously over-involved in his stories.But documentary is not journalism,#1 The Rule of Objectivity.#2 The Rule of Audience: audiences, of shaping public opinion and perhaps in the process shaping policy.“undermine this hierarchical, class-based relationship between images and their audience”.#3 The Rule of Manipulation, this forbids photographers from using digital editing to manipulate the meaning of their images.very stage of the photographic process is a manipulation, and is open to no less egregious misrepresentations.“I see propaganda and reality as two sides of the same coin,” she says. “Propaganda is an essential part of everyday life in North Korea, and because of that a reality in itself.”#4 The Rule of Reality“creative treatment of actuality”vents which were then, and still are, yet to transpire blend of fact and fiction “They had been forced to wear makeup and my informants had described it perfectly: bright red lips, pink cheeks and blue eye-shadow.”#5 The Rule of Technicality, Lacking the clarity of a conventional documentary image, her work hints at the uncertainty engulfing the country at a time of change.“It was about responding spontaneously to the events around me,”#6 The Rule of Ownership, His interest in these images, he says, lies in the fact that “the people who are running the show, that’s the stuff they’re working with.”#7 The Rule of the Camera“I have always understood, or at least attempted to understand, the close communion one must have with story. When the story is served by all the elements, an opening up of technique and creative possibility in how that story gets told is laid out for you.”“The body is becoming part of this new informational economy,” says Orton, whose visceral reaction to a utilitarian image is a reflection on the relationship between living bodies and their representations.#8 The Rule of Rule BreakingWhen it comes to working on sensitive topics and with vulnerable subjects, the expectations and standards have never been higher.But good practice, ethical practice, more often stems not from any formal rules of documentary

Reality: Rule number 4

I thought reality was such a interesting concept that would allow me to question its rules in many circumstances.  To my reality lies between three main concepts. I believe tablo photography and a staged sense of altered reality would question the proposition of what reality is.  I believe there is a sense of trust seen within reality and people believe what they expect to be reality. I could change this by doing a documentary series in a way which is not expected and also a specific small angle of what is actually the truth. E.g a study of school with the reality of how people are treated and what happens behind the scenes and when not at school for learning. My second aspect of intrigue is the concept of predicting the future, and the power of invention and to from something which is not currently real. This allows a sense of lies of perhaps what people would want in the future e.g hope. This could also incorporate into Tablo photography as it would be set up in order to create a frame that has not officially happened.I could do this through thinking of a political concept or and environmental impact, so predicting who will win the election, what changes will be soon developed to St Helier, or the deterioration of the environment. As this has not happened but the plausibility caused produce a sense fo reality to readers. This could possibly be a recreation of something that has happened or started to happen elsewhere, war, poverty and such. This creates a sense of awareness to people who are oblivious in rich areas such as jersey. My last inspiration Is the appearance of a false reality seen within an appearance or a sense of personality, this could be developed further into someones culture and what is expected of them to look and act and Additionally how someone presents themselves, through styles, fashion and makeup.  I believe this is a-lot more apparent especially with  young teenagers trying to change who they are in order to be and create someone who they are not. So creating a false sense of reality.

research: when searching the word ‘reality’ through the concept of photography many images come up which a-lot of documentary photography in order to tell the ‘truth’ Much of which is very harsh and hard hitting and show people a scenario that is not particularly nice to look at. Such as seen within this image you can see a young injured girl who instead of people getting help they photography her for story to encourage help which they could have given. The camera is constantly manipulated and everyones truths will always be different. Because I believe every photo-lies in some manner i think to create something that is not reality will be relatively straight forward when i know my concept of my shoot.

To further what concept I should really narrow into i will do further research to see which photographers are too inspired by how a narrative is told and how lying further does not change how the camera already shows a small part of a large story anyway.

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Experimentation with shutter speed and conceptual ideas.

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My main purpose for this shoot is to concentrate on the following two concepts: Night traces of light within a landscape, and mirrors over faces and using fire. I have chosen this as I was inspired by the artist: I have chosen this as I think these additional camera effects will add a dramatised effect to my photos. I think fire emphasises the ideology of pain and anger and will create. I believe will will open us a new concept that allows my images to be more shocking, and possibly connecting more of the sublime which I really want to emphasis. Due to the shoot being based in town I will concentrate the political issues to surrounding the lack of community within town and the amount of crime and poverty being highlighted.

I want to use light capture in order to capture the life and reflect a reality within the movement of people within the town. The place I am taking these photos is right outside the hospital and on peoples park. This is politically interesting as where  I am in jersey. This is the governmental debate as to where to place the new hospital and wether it should be on peoples park.  This could clearly communicate the anger within people who live in town and next to the park and feeling as tho there voices have been diminished as others are making their decision of their future. In my previous shoot I focused on a love and connection within the area and an anger for the castle as it was a clear presentative for the past place they lived and being discriminated against as they did not have as much money as the others controlling their decisions.

Shoot images, for experimentation.

I do need to further develop this shoot as many of the images I do not think I can develop in such a way as I would like. I think shoot works for a quick experimentation but I need to come back to this shoot and area and really further develop this shoot as a whole.

 

 

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Plan for second shoot

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My plan for the third shoot is a clear influence from the exhibition of clare cauhn. I wanted to focus on the the political correctness of femininity and the political influence that can be shown through this girls positioning within the landscape and the fragility to the atmosphere she is surrounded by. I also want to capture more landscape images that she is surrounded by, this could be the movement and emotion of the sea and also how this movement and fluidity of the water is mimicking the women herself. I believe the impact of the sea shows a stronger connection to that of the sublime and nature having a really strong  power. I could in one of my next shoot like to focus on the way someone can go into the water and see both emotions within the person and movement and aggression of nature. I believe this would exactly hit my connection of the sublime, and this will really positively effect my shoot. Being submerged within an atmosphere in which you cannot breath and is deemed dangerous shows such a string emotion within the water and person. So a clear diegetic link between the shoot and emotions based of political bias.

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colour experiments

Experimentation:

For this edit I wanted to revert back to how I edited my previous shoot and how I focused upon the way these shapes, colours and lines can successfully impact a piece. I believe I should further experiment with the images and find more conceptual ways in which I could edit them. I do think the composition of these images are correct in the way it shapes from and connotes a sense of femininity within the images. This political bias is not necessarily seen through injustice but how the sublime environment enhances the femininity of the piece  which contributes to the political factors of women rights and a stance for the power to which a gender can hold.

Evaluation: Overall I do think this photoshoot is a clear presentation of my inspiration from claude chaun and additionally is successful in the recreation of softness and emotion within the landscape itself.

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analysis from shoot 1 and investigating the sublime

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Overall I chose these images as they connoted the strongest emotion within the image itself. I chose 20 final images to further develop depending on their strength and mimicking the emotion. What I think I developed well on this piece is the overall composition of placing the body and how I have used this in order to create a sense of emotion and impact. I wanted to use photoshop editing in order to really over-exaggerate the tones so changing the colour of areas within the piece too.

The sublime:

Is said to be ‘an aesthetics, the sublime (from the latin sublimins) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation’

To measure an environment by how sublime it my feel or be perceived is interesting. As seen above there is a connection to physical greatness and spiritual and artistic elements. This to me is a clear indication of the wide range of possibilities this word has to offer. As said previous I am interested within the philosophy and how to conceptual human emotions into a landscape, I believe developing this further into the sublime would be useful to my project. I have further developed  research of emotions within the sublime and researched emotions within landscape will use this inspiration to power on my ideas further.

when sublime is connected to issues of emotion it focuses on a deep threat and a harsh reality of weather, this being seen through a storm or the deep seas. Many piece that include people are them diving into water and how being submerged into a world is abstract and different from the world to which we know and view as normal above land. It combines natures power of man and also the lack of breath and cruel reality fo nature to be something of greatness and also concern. My question is what is the sublime and how can i show this through my themes of emotion, politics and landscapes? Is sublime about a feeling, event or a persons state of mind? It means to be raised and on top but also further defined as having a quality of greatness and magnitude. I want my pieces to be temporarily overwhelmed by anyone who sees them. A quote about the sublime really stuck out to me, this was ‘by a kind of pleasurable terror’ This echoes the social conventions of politics and freedom to me,It demonstrates an image of people wanting to escape and taking a deep risk due to their political or negative governmental conditions.And how a big leap or jump for freedom is pleasurable to escape but filled with terror when alone and surrounded with a landscape that is not familiar.

The sublime was associated in particular with the immensity or turbulence of Nature and human responses to it. Consequently, in Western art, ‘sublime’ landscapes and seascapes, especially those from the Romantic period. To my mind this means a clear representation of vast storms and seas, it is a mixture of beauty found in a life Threatening position. I believe through my work it would be tangible for me to create a scenario like this but as a false sense of identity. I would create a constructed narrative set almost as a tabloid to make the image look dangerous and have a feel of the sublime but not being so. This is not possible when it comes to going outside and capturing a storm but it is when creating an infliction of worry which as someone underwater, or moving quickly in a dark space. I think the sublime should no longer be just considered a natures act and a landscape but allowed to be pulled into someones emotion ,reaction and cause fro distress clearly portrayed within themselves.

An artist who uses politics to effect and emotion and create sublime work is the artist Damien Hierst. His work focus on the notion of the contemporary sublime ,so removing the previous style fo only using a landscape of a storm.The  starting place for tracing such returns of the natural sublime is Damien Hirst’s art work, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991. he is such a symptomatic artists who’s work is uneasy and contradicts with what is expected within society.  it is said that ‘His best work condenses our lived contradictions into perplexing, unforgettable, iconic images, in just the way that dreams do’ This allows his work to have such a huge impact on the audience it is viewed as a terrible going against what is expected and perceived as normal but yet alongside with this is so fascinating. His work clearly echoes inspiration  from within the body, mortality, violence, pain and power.a ‘universal trigger’.  Hirests taste that it works as a powerful sublime piece as  ‘everyone’s frightened of sharks, everyone loves butterflies’. however the shark carries a powerful charges frisson and forms a universal response reaction of the sublime.

 

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artist inspiration for shoot 2:TERJE ABUSDAL SLASH & BURN

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While continuing to experiment within emotion mimicked by the power of nature caused by self emotions of politics I wanted to look more into the photographers who are able to tell a story with their images, this being seen within who they photograph, where they do so and what nature effects they add to the composition.

TERJE ABUSDAL

Link to Abusdal’s  website Visit website <– here.

Abusdal  is a visual storyteller from Norway working mainly works on independent projects in the intersection between fact and fiction. In 2017, his story on the Forest Finns – Slash & Burn. I was intrigued with his work due to the clear emotion he has successfully conveyed and how the clear cut conduct was strong in the composition and colouring of his work. Abusdal decided to take many photos alongside the coast of the Swedish boarder, where farming families from Finland settled in the early 1600s. The immigrants – called Forest Finns  were slash and burn farmers. This was an interesting perspective as it focused on the the ancient agricultural bountiful crops which required large areas of land and so soil and grounds were too quickly exhausted. other political influences were the population overgrowth which led to many wars, terrorism and migration where he lived.

Because I do not live in an areas with these issues, although I think they are important and an interesting concepts I decided I will create a demonstration through more conceptual tablo photography in order to exaggerate the effect I desire. This will be further looked into when experimenting within what the photographer does with his work too to communicate these ideologies. His understanding of nature was rooted within his culture of eastern shamanistic tradition, and so associated with mystery. To my mind this comes across very clearly within his works the rituals, spell symbols as a practical tool for daily life. I think it is interesting the way in which a suffering due to the government and political issues should deem it acceptable for people to live in poor conditions and how this becomes their daily life. Additionally I wish to expand on this concept later too. The photographer has said that ‘This photographic project draws on these beliefs while investigating what it means to be a Forest Finn today, in a time when the 17th century way of life is long gone, and their language is no longer spoken’

The photography I am most keenly interested towards is called ‘slash and burn’ this uses many fires and warm and cold tones contrasting to create a harsh reality for daily lives of people who are submitted to feeling down and living in poverty due to politics.The two images that clearly demonstrate an angle of emotion that I am fascinated with are the following;

I believe this image is successful due to where it lies conceptually, the fire could connote many feeling and attitudes to which the women is trying to express. I believe this image is sublime as there is a clear personification through the flame of destruction to this persons life and mind. The burning could symbolises a stress and tiredness of overpopulation and the suffering to which she has faced. Additionally I like this image as it looks as though she is a real person and not just edited or shown as a photo burning. I think the contrasting tones between the flames and the complete black background drives the image forward as it develops the light and expresses the whole pieces through her face and also surrounding her.

I believe that this image is fascinating as it has an interesting aspect of editing to the image itself. I think instead of the environment of landscape being seen surrounding the person it has been shown as a self reflection over the person itself. The silver coat also insinuates the space theme and cultivates its purpose to be more profound in the landscape it is trying to mimic. I believe it would be an interesting concept to try and recreate landscape that people are not actually in themselves.