SELECTING, FINALISING AND DISPLAYING…

I grouped the above images together as they portray the same vertical leading line architecture both with each other, and with the gallery they are displayed in.

These images I decided to display in a digital zine format. They follow the same tonal and textual features showcasing the sandpapered clouds in a dark underexposed style.

The above images follow the same desaturated and geometric rectangle features which coincides with the gallery I chose which features grey walls and geometric rectangular architecture.

These images feature the same experimental focal style. They all have unconventional focus features with varying depths of field which made it suitable to use the immersive gallery which provides depth of field as some images look closer than the others.

The above images are curated together into that setting for the way they look like a portal into a different universe.

Method

I first gathered my my images according to how aesthetic they would look simultaneously, into five sub-galleries

I then chose a fitting empty background to stitch the clusters of images onto. I chose backgrounds that possessed similar shape and form of the images and also any other visual elements such as similar cloud patterns.

I then used photoshop to transpose these images onto the coinciding backgrounds by making use of free transform and warp to make the images look naturally apart of the background. I also added a drop-shadow to the images to help achieve this.

Environmental Portraits

Photoshoot Plan

Artist References

Exhibitions — August Sander - August Sander | Hauser & Wirth
August Sanders (1930) ‘Lack Arbeiter’

August Sander was born in Herdorf, a small rural village east of Cologne, in 1876. He was one of nine children of a peasant and miner family. Sander is now viewed as a forefather of conceptual art and a pioneering documentarian of human diversity. In his project entitled ‘Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (People of the 20th Century)’, a project that spanned four decades of his life, Sander strove to systematically document contemporary German society. (https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/2859-august-sander).

The photo above is one of the images taken by Sanders in his lifetime of a Varnisher. The background is black which allows all the detail of the person and objects to prominent. The image also has high contrast and is in black and white due to the time in which it was taken.

‘I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest and tell the truth about our age and its people’ – Sanders

Chosen Images

Candid Portraits And Street Photography

Candid portraits involve capturing the photo when the subject thinks the photographer isn’t working. However it will still be staged and they would still have direction from the photographer. What they do not know is exactly when the photograph will be taken.

Examples of Candid photography:

Street photography, a genre of photography that records everyday life in public places. Being in the public setting enables the photographer to take candid pictures of strangers, sometimes without them knowing. Street photography does not have to be taken on the streets. You can do street photography anywhere. The aim of street photography is to capture culture and lifestyle.

A good street photo needs a clearly defined subject and use composition techniques such as rule of thirds, negative space, symmetry etc. Images should tell a story or document a moment. Some street photography is created to make the viewer pause and question themselves.

https://photographylife.com/what-is-street-photography

Examples of Street photography:

http://www.artnet.com/artists/lee-friedlander/

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