I started off my creative process by looking at the idea of secrets within exploration. The artists I looked at were Robbie Shone, Emmanuel Tecles and Gregory Berg. These are all completely different photographers that photograph different subjects but they all had the common goal of documenting their exploration.
I began my first shoot by visiting the Jersey war tunnels and my primary idea was to capture the pathways that both Shone and Berg show in their photographs. I successfully managed this but could’ve done this in a more aesthetically pleasing manner by creating a brighter, more interesting photograph with some more symmetry in it.
In my second shoot I started to look at more exploration within nature and within abandoned/neglected settings. The primary idea with this was still exploration and this allowed my ideas to flow through to the exploration of the subways. I felt my work on natural exploration was successful but I needed to take photographs that had more composition and interesting themes/subjects within them.
This led me to start taking photographs within the subways in which I could use the urban, man-made structures to my advantage as they provided me with natural frames and pathways within the photographs for me to create aesthetically pleasing compositions. I used the different lightings and long pathways in order to create contrast within the photographs and to create a sense of unknown secrets at the end of the pathway. The below are my final photographs, if I was to try this shoot again I would attempt it in a busy area of the subway in order to provide contrast between images and more contrast between my photographs and Gregory Berg’s work.
Before he bought his first Polaroid camera in 2006 he has been shooting abstract, geometric and minimalist photos with a digital camera. He has a keen eye for hidden color, shape, and form in everyday life, and this itself is the subject he chooses to photograph most often. Because of the way in which he shoots, there is no room for error. There are no negatives, no memory cards, and no post-processing. Each image is exactly as he saw it in real life, and there’s a sense of honesty and beauty to that. Since there are only ten images in each film pack, he has to examine each subject with meticulous detail before taking the shot. More time is taken to consider shape, form, light, color, and subject. His photographs range from the corner of a motel sign to balloons on a ceiling to the words on a neon sign , no subject is left untouched.
He took his earliest photographs in high school, photographing film footage of Audrey Hepburn as it played in a movie theater. After receiving a BA from Saint Paul’s University in Tokyo in 1970, he traveled west, first encountering communist countries such as the Soviet Union and Poland, and later Western Europe.Through different bodies of work he has shown many different interests, including minimalistic dioramas, wax portraits and photographing early photographic negatives. His photography tends to blur the lines between painting, illustration, photography, and architecture. From seascapes to natural history dioramas, there’s something about Sugimoto’s photographs that resonates with viewers. Like Kenna, Sugimoto only photographs in black and white. He prints all of his images himself with a great understanding of silver print, creating images with unbelievably beautiful tones of black, white and gray.
entury artists, using a minimum amount of components such as colour, shape, line and texture. Within the art world it is considered an extremely subjective concept, leaving interpretation and meaning up to the viewers perception of the work. Minimalism emerged in the late 50′s when artists such as Frank Stella, whose Black Paintings were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1959, began to turn away from the gestural art of the previous generation
Abstract photography, also known as non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. An abstract photograph may isolate a fragment of a natural scene in order to remove its inherent context from the viewer, it may be purposely staged to create a seemingly unreal appearance from real objects, or it may involve the use of color, light, shadow, texture, shape and/or form to convey a feeling, sensation or impression. The image may be produced using traditional photographic equipment like a camera, darkroom or computer, or it may be created without using a camera by directly manipulating film, paper or other photographic media, including digital presentations
On black board
On white board
