“Born in Istanbul, graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University as an ceramic artist in 2010. She created “Choke Jungle” brand (co-founder) and started to design ceramic jewellry. Her ceramic works are featured by known magazines such as British Vogue, Elle and Marie Claire. She has been working on collage projects since 2012.”

Examples of her work:

“Natural Act”

“Natural act is composed by several collages based on the questions of the relation between nature and the humanity. It is basically a critical presentation referring to the fact that each of us is part of the nature. it seeks the answer whether greed, urbanization, mechanization and detaching from the nature is favorable or coherent for human or not. In that sense natural act appears with its all colors when our emotions are paralysed in the vital points of the cliche and dull city life.”

My Plan:

For this project, I will be using photos from when I was younger and using photos that I have taken of the beach and water to achieve a similar look to Ozaslan. I wanted to link the journey of growing up with this project, so I will be using photos from when I was a baby to when I was a child.

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Editing Process For First Photo:

I am pleased with how this photo turned out, but I think if I use better images of the ocean I think it’ll look much better. I think if i get images of the sea from google images it’ll make the photo better.

2nd Photo:

I really like how this photo turned out. I think the drop shadow around the sea looks really effective and like how the black and white makes it look more vintage.

3rd Photo:

I really like how this photo turned out. I think the blue sea really stands out and brings attention to the model. I also think the use of noise adds a old and retro feel to the photo.

4th Photo:

I really like the colour if the sea in this image. I think the green/blue colour stands out very well and compliments the black and white photo.

Best Image:

I personally think this is my best image from this project. The placement of the sea is perfect and it looks very smooth. I also really like the amount of noise I used in this photo.

“Marko Köppe, collage artist from the north of Germany, loves art, the classic art, like Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Hieronymus Bosch, the modern classics, like Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, and also modern art like das Bauhaus and all its influence: Kurt Schwitters, Mark Rothko, Giorgio Morandi, Olafur Eliasson, Banksy, and so many more.

Nature, music, and especially life are important influences of inspiration, and together with the famous German proverb: Everything develops in the eyes of the viewer!, he starts to play around with the style, aesthetics, and contrast between pictures—tries to create something different, something new, that hits the eyes and through them the brain, the imagination, fantasy, the viewers’ internal feelings, wishes, and thoughts.”
https://flexiblepersona.com/marko/

Examples of his work:

My Plan:

For this project, I will be using photos from previous photo shoots and putting images of buildings from my New York trip in June 2018 on their faces. I will also taking some images from Google Images like butterfly wings, birds, leaves and other things from nature and also putting those on the photo. The concept of these photo is that I am taking things that I saw on my journey through New York and things you would see if you went on a walk through Jersey. I also wanted to show the contrast of New York and Jersey, as one is very modern and industrial whereas the other is more natural and neutral.

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I am really pleased with how this photo turned out. I really like how the moth wings look like ears, and I like the contrast of the black and white images and the coloured images.

I really like the way I put the washing line on the hand. I think this photo is edited really well and I am happy with the outcome.

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I really like how this photo turned out. I think I placed everything really well and I think I edited it quite well.

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For each photo I tried to capture Marko Köppe editing style and I am really happy with the outcome of these final edited photos.

Stephen Calcutt

“Reflecting the work of abstract artists and following in the footsteps of photographers such as Saul Leiter. Stephens unique form of street photography is a consequence of frequenting bus stops and shelters around the City of Birmingham. Graffiti can be great art, however for Stephen, the etched, scrawled and scratched graffiti into the Plexiglass windows of the bus stop feels like a violation. The graffiti etched and scrawled in the bus stop windows seem to be expressions of frustration or anger, hate and  love  written into the Plexiglass.

The  windows full potential as a clear barrier between yourself and the elements are compromised when the view beyond is obscured, distorted and blurred by the scratches. The the graffiti etched window becomes a  lens. Stephen merges the graffiti and the view beyond, focusing his camera on the etched lines. The view beyond is put out of focus. The graffiti and view are merged  into a single plane. A new perspective is created, that retains and emphasises the energy of the graffiti. Its swirls, zigzags, lines and curves, slash across the abstracted view like paint strokes. At first glance, the photos may be mistaken for abstract paintings. Then closer inspection reveals they are in fact photographs.

The subject matter that is out of focus is also fairly mundane. Often when waiting for a bus the view is not particularly exciting. The human activity he prefers  capture is not very dramatic. When combined with the mundane graffiti and the mundane view it adds to his  desire to create a new  image that ordinarily would be uninteresting or unnoticed. Even the title of each work is mundane, the descriptions of each photograph are  very droll.

The  way he uses the camera for this project is like painting with light. He breaks the rules for getting a traditional photograph. He puts the view that is usually the focal point out of focus. Stephen then focuses on what would normally be avoided. However, the resulting images are very dynamic and often vibrant. There is a metamorphosis, the mundane graffiti and the often-mundane view are merged into a fresh new image. There is an attraction to the paradox that his work invokes. Stephen makes unique beautiful images out of the vandalised bus stop windows.

Stephen loves the images he produces. However, he doesn’t condone the vandalising of the bus stop windows that provide the lens for his work. The Bus Stop series is a unique approach to photography. Bus Stop brings the current social issue of a specific form of vandalism to the fore. The art works are  a product of modern vandalism. Vandalism that has found the Plexiglass windows of bus shelters an ideal medium to express feelings. Although Stephens work has so far been derived from the city of Birmingham it is an issue familiar to the many people of all ages who travel by bus in urban and rural settings across the UK. His  photography challenges people to look at the issue vandalism. From the protagonists to the observers of their markings. It also challenges people to see the potential beauty in mundanity.” https://www.stephencalcutt.com/about-me-stephen-calcutt

Examples of his work:

My Response:

I will be taking photos around jersey at a few different bus stops so I can capture Stephen’s style. I will be using my canon camera to take these photos. I am linking this to Journeys and Pathways by showing the physical journey of taking a bus to get to your desired location. My step dad was the model for this photo shoot because I did this on a Sunday so there wasn’t a lot of people at the bus stops.

Contact Sheets:

Red – No

Orange – Maybe

Green – Yes

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Final Images (Unedited):

I liked these final images but they were a little over exposed and needed editing.

Final Images (Edited):

I used Photo Shop to edit these images.

Overall, I am very happy with the outcomes of these edited photos. I think I capture Calcutt’s style really well, whilst still incorporating my style in the images.