For this photo shoot I simply just walked around the school and outside and tried to look out for things to photograph that would be appropriate. I originally looked closely at how the Boyle Family tried to work and focused on the idea of ‘copying’ them. For my first image I found shadows being produced through a stair case creating an interesting pattern. I cropped the image to strongly focus on the pattern instead of the background, then went to adding a subtle filter and cleaned up the pattern to create a warmer feeling to the image. For the second image I photographed a pothole and added black and white feature enhancing the shadows and specific shades to give a more dramatic appearance. For the last image a well as emphasizing the yellow lines i the first image much like images produced by the Boyle Family, I wanted to add my own twist on the selection of images so filtered the last one in to three different images all consisting of vibrant different colors, highlighting the shades, shapes and outlines being produced.
My first idea involves documenting images of old objects and antiques, and then attach the journey of the object to the image. So for example, I have a set of stamps from Spain 1923, I photograph them then overlay them on top of either posters or postcards from the same time frame.
Rough Example
Idea 2
Incorporation
Use the objects from the first shoot and try and incorporate them into a modern setting. For example a 1965 Horse Riding Rosette could be added onto either someones bag or jacket where they have modern badges.
Peter Blake
Idea 3
Decay
Completely contrasting to my other ideas, i could show the journey of decay or life through either a molding food over time or a wilting flower.
I’ve put the themes which I am most interested in doing into this mood board.
These are taking a more literal approach to the theme of ‘journeys and pathways’ as cars are one of if not the most popular mode of transport in modern society. As well as roads literally being pathways to travel along.
I am interested in photographing cars because it allows me to search for strong lines and shapes in the bodywork, whilst photographing roads also gives a chance to explores strong shapes, and sometimes curves.
For our photography exam, the theme we will be looking at is Journeys and Pathways. Any journey, whether long or short, can yield a wealth of resources for an artist or designer. This theme can be interpreted in many ways, from actual physical journeys from one place to another or a metaphorical journey, maybe following someone who’s trying to achieve something, ect.
Some suggestions I could look at:
Cars, trains, planes, boats, coaches, bikes, ect.
Hiking, camping, caravanning, hotels.
Obsessions, desires, pursuits, achievements.
Oceans, rivers, canals, motorways, bridges, corridors, staircases, packed lunches, service stations, mobile cafes, drive-thrus, airport lounges, bus stations, train stations.
Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) photography is an abstract style of shooting that has no rules – it all comes down to moving your camera over a long exposure. I come from an art background and I believe this type of photography brings out the expressionist painter in all of us; instead of taking pictures with our camera we are now painting with it, and the sensor is our canvas. https://www.wexphotovideo.com/blog/tips-and-technique/a-guide-to-intentional-camera-movement-photography/
For my exam I wanted to explore with ICM (initial camera movement) again because I really enjoyed experimenting with this type of photography in my Pre AS task.
Mood board:
Andrew S Gray:
“Andrew S Gray is an image maker based in a small rural Northumbrian village only two fields away from the family farm he grew up on.
With Northumberland as a home its iconic but subtle landscapes, coastline and nature in general have shaped his vision from an early age and continues to inspire him – though the thought of the challenge of a change of scene does appeal now and again.
A long time self-confessed nerd, he is most comfortable not just out in the countryside or on the beach with a camera but also shut away in front of a computer for hours on end making images from the data our digital cameras produce. He’s never been afraid of carrying out seemingly excessive alteration to his captured images, which has probably been a large factor in the way his individual style of intentional camera movement photography has developed over the years.
While in the past, he’s always enjoyed having a camera in his hand, making traditional landscape images of the local iconic views and more intimate landscape scenes, after a spell of loving making minimalist long exposures, usually monochromatic, he stumbled (literally) on intentional camera movement.
It wasn’t long after this trip that he first saw the work of Valda Bailey who was just a short amount of time into developing her multiple exposure style, and he was captivated. He loved it, but hadn’t seen anything like it before, using a camera at any rate. So he began his journey which has ended up with him all but abandoning the “reality” of photography and instead he used the old English master painters of the 19th century, along with the later impressionists as his inspiration to create the work he currently do. A huge influence and someone he actively tried and mimicked in form and colour scheme is JMW Turner.
After years of trying to find a niche, he has now found it and is comfortable enough in it to begin dispelling his own knowledge and thoughts to others. As part of his move into creating video content he hosts a weekly YouTube live stream “Tuesday Night Edits” where he edits his work live, he also now offer 1-2-1 tuition and will soon be developing group workshops.” https://andrewsgray.photography/about/
These are my initial ideas as to where I would like to take the exam project and which ideas I would like to explore.
My initial ideas involve looking into the development and “journey’s” that fashion and advertising has taken through the separate decades. To do this I will look at separate campaigns and posters in advertising and create experiments around their developments and how they have changed and what they are trying to represent, specifically looking at the women in the advertising.
Journey and pathways to me is extremely linked in the aspect of the idea that the pathway you take is your own journey your choosing to take, and the aspect that different pathways take you on different journeys to different parts of your life. For this project I’m going to try focus of the concept of different lengths of paths and the outcomes that will be created form them, associating with the levels and struggles that someone might experience when on their pathway to ‘discovery’.
My initial idea for this project was to look at the Journey of Jersey and how it has developed into the way it is today. This lead me to a wide range of approaches and ideas, but with conducting research I have been able to narrow down this idea. I want to look at Jersey during the Second World War and how the island developed over the 5 years. This will provide me with the opportunity to explore the different styles of landscape photography by gaining inspiration through landscape photographers. Moreover, it will broaden my understanding of photography as a whole. Within this planning I wrote down a variety of locations which have a connection between WW2 and how it effected the island. This list includes:
Jersey War Tunnels
Jersey Bunkers
Royal Square
Dolmans
Jersey Sea Walls
Fort Regent
Fields of Poppys
Channel Island Military Museum
These places will all help to present the journey Jersey underwent during WW2. Furthermore, I have considered different photoshop and photograph ideas I could implement into this project. These ideas include:
Tableaux Photography
Photo-Montage
Landscape Photography
Double Exposures
The use of a disposable camera
1940 – 1945 Jersey CI:
30th June 1940 Jersey was invaded by the Germans. On this day they sent a squadron of bombers over the islands and bombed the harbors Jersey.
lack of news from the mainland after the Germans had outlawed the use of crystal radio sets.
The island was also moved to Central European time. In the months following D-Day, as the Allies regained control of France, the source of supplies fueling the islands was now no longer available.
Food shortages on Jersey were finally relieved by the arrival of the Red Cross ship SS Vega, bringing food parcels to Jersey. Before then, substitutes had been used to replace everyday foods, with seawater replacing salt, for instance, and a mixture of parsnip and sugar beet replacing tea.
Hitler ordered the conversion of Jersey into an impregnable fortress. Thousands of slave workers from countries like Russia, Spain, France, Poland, and Algeria built hundreds of bunkers, anti-tank walls, railway systems, as well as many tunnel complexes. In late 1943 the Tunnel Complex Ho8 (now known as the Jersey War Tunnels) in St. Lawrence was converted from an artillery workshop and barracks to an emergency casualty clearing station able to cope with up to 500 patients.. All of the fortifications built around the island were part of Hitler’s “Atlantic Wall”. Today, traces of Jersey’s defenses and wartime occupations can be discovered across the island, especially in St. Ouen’s Bay.
By 7 May 1945, the German army had surrendered and the end of the war in Europe was announced. During the week leading up to 6 May islanders had been hearing reports of Hitler’s fall in Berlin by way of their hidden radios. In spite of the fact that the island was still officially under occupation, rumors began circulating of an imminent end to the war in Europe.
On 8 May the units that made up Force 135 received their orders to move to their marshalling camps in Portsmouth. The main body of the Force was due to arrive in the islands on 12 May, however, a small contingent of Force 135, including their Commander, Brigadier AE Snow, left for the Channel Islands aboard HMS’ Bulldog and Beagle the morning of 8 May.
At 7.15am on 9 May, on the quarter deck of HMS Bulldog, Second-in-Command for Guernsey General Siegfried Heine signed the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the German Command of the Channel Islands, effecting their capitulation. On completion of this, General Heine was then ordered to “immediately cause all German flags and ensigns now flying in the Channel Islands to be lowered”. At Midday an overjoyed Bailiff Coutanche accompanied a German delegation led by the island Commander, General Major Rudolf Wulf, aboard HMS Beagle anchored in St. Aubin’s bay, where the separate surrender of Jersey was to take place. Arriving at the same time in St. Helier’s harbour was a small naval inspection party sent to report on the health of the islanders, who were promptly overwhelmed by an enthusiastic crowd delighted at seeing their first liberators landing on Jersey soil.
Information taken from: https://www.jersey.com/discover-jerseys-occupation-story
After conducting this research I have come upon different aspects of the war, which I could capture within a photograph in order to present the journey of Jersey through the second world war. Moreover, looking at the history has provided me with some artists which could be used in order to help inspire photoshoots. These artists include:
Martin Parr – Liberation Day
Dorothea Lange – Affect of War on People
Gina Socrates – Seawalls
Don Mcullin – War Photographer
CriticalMass – Ruin photography
As I go through this project I will realise what works and what does not work, which will lead to more/different artist inspiration being used.
I’ve put the themes which I am most interested in doing into this mood board.
