Gabi Ben Avraham

Gabi Ben Avraham is an Israeli street photographer. He says that street photography is his favourite way of looking at the world. He also said “My camera has become an integral part of me. Via the camera lens I am constantly looking around me, searching for that ‘decisive’ moment that will never return, unless I catch it. When pushing the button, I try to make some sense, restore order to the chaotic scheme of things in the composition, tell the story behind the scene and frame a surrealistic moment. Capturing the elusive, special moment after which things will never be the same and making it eternal – that is my goal. I try to create a private andintimate hallucination in order to share it with the viewer.  I shoot independently for a few years and teach in Street Photography workshops.” I like his work as it captures community as well as colour which is something that I want to try and do with my work. for this project I am going to take inspiration from him and capture images that are colourful as well as linked to identity and community. I am going to do this by taking images of people in and around town who look colourful as well as taking images of things such as resteraunts that have a cultural link.

I particularly like this image as the umbrella and the Ferris wheel are both main focal points as he has captured it at a perfect time and angle where the umbrella fits within the space of the Ferris wheel. I like the colours in this image with the red in the umbrella against the blue of the sky. I think this photo is aesthetically pleasing as although its not perfect and there are many people in the frame it works well.

William Eggleston

William Eggleston (born July 27, 1939) is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium. Eggleston took the majority of his images in his hometown, Memphis. I like William Eggleston as a colour photographer to take inspiration from for this project as he takes pictures that indirectly link to community by taking pictures of places that communities may congregate instead of images of actual communities like a lot of other photographers that I have looked at. All of William Eggleston’s images are of places where people would be together such as cafes and shops. I like how he takes pictures of somewhat boring places and makes them look interesting with the way he captures his images.

I particularly like this image as it is not too overloaded with colour, however where there is colour on both the building and the car they look symetrical. I like how the image is took with the car placed in the middle of the view point so that the car colour matches the building in the background and how the lights on either side of the car are red matching the red on both ends of the building. I also think this image shows community well as it shows people going somewhere to possibly hang out and get ice cream or something like that together.

Mind Map

Mood Board

Statement of Intent

For this project I want to focus on colour as well as colour within the community; I want to explore how using certain colours in images can evoke a feeling and keep this in mind while taking my images. I have researched how different colours have different ways of influencing us, some colours make us feel calm, some evoke feelings of fear and tension and others make us feel happy. For example, yellow- it’s the colour of sunshine, warmth, and beauty. Different hues of yellow bring different impacts. Darker shades might enrich an atmosphere even with some dramatic effect while the lighter tones make things merry and happy. So, the colours are powerful tools for creating an emotional structure of photographs. I want to take images that feature a lot of yellows and greens, and am going to take images of things such as architecture that features these colours.

Review and Reflection

For our first Year 12 project we focused on black light and Albert Renger Patzch and Keld Helmer Peterson. We took images of things such as industrial buildings and edited them to look like Keld Helmer Peterson’s Black light photography.

My Images

We then focused on portrait photography for a while before moving onto identity. For this project I looked at artists such as Lisa Riverra and Claude Cahun. The photoshoots I done for this project were inspired by Lisa Riverras work ‘Beautiful Boy’.

Identity

We then explored rural landscape photography before, looking and new topographics and eventually moving onto our Anthropocene project which focused on how we as humans have changed the Earth.

My Images

We then finished the year by focusing on Identity and Community. For this project we first started learning about Jersey by going to a ‘People Make Jersey’ exhibition and learning about the history of the Island and Islanders. For this project I looked at artists such as Percival Dunham and George Georgiou.

Photography an art form began in the late 1830s in france and became publicly recognised ten years later.

Before photography was first created people started to experiment and figure out the basic principles of lenses and the camera. They were able to project the image on the wall or piece of paper, however at that specific point in time no printing was possible at all. A Camera Obscura is what people used to process their pictures in which they took. The Camera Obscura was invented around 13-14th centuries and it is essentially a dark, closed space in the shape of a box with a hole on one side of it. The hole has to be small enough in proportion to the box to make the camera obscura work properly. Light coming in through a tiny hole transforms and creates an image on the surface that it meets, like the wall of the box.

The first photograph was taken in 1825 by a French inventor Joseph Nicéphora niépce. His photograph show a view from a window at Le Gras.

The exposure had to last for eight hours, so the sun in the picture had time to move from east to west appearing to shine on both sides of the building in the picture. This lead to the photograph being more interesting for one to analysis and look at.

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Colour photography was explored throughout the 19th century, but didn’t become truly commercially viable until the middle of the 20th century. Before this colour in photographs wouldn’t last for a long amount of time a would start to fade very quickly to become degraded. Several methods of color photography were patented from 1862 by two French inventors: Louis Ducos du Hauron and Charlec Cros, working independently.

The first color photo of an image of a tartan ribbon (shown above), was taken in 1861 by the famous Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who was famous for his work with electromagnetism. Although his work had great influence on the photo industry, Maxwell is not remembered for this as his inventions in the field of physics were more remembered than his photography accomplishment.

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The first ever picture to have a person in it was Boulevard du Temple by Louis Daguerre, taken in 1838. However the exposure lasted for about 10 minutes at the time, so it was barely possible for the camera to capture a person on the busy street.