A photo sequence means putting a bunch of pictures in the order the viewer will receive those images, it can be for a book, an exhibition walking tour, or just the reading order of a few photographs displayed on a wall.
Tracy Moffatt
Tracey Moffatt is a contemporary Australian artist known for her photographs and films. With a variety of narrative techniques, including text, collage, and set design, Moffatt explores issues of childhood trauma, Aboriginal people, and popular Australian culture. She approaches all her work with a film director’s eye for setting and narrative, and her photographs play with a dynamic array of printing processes. Moffatt was the first Australian Indigenous artist to represent Australia for the 2017 Venice Biennale, in a solo presentation of two new photographic series Passage and Body Remembers in the Australia Pavilion in the Giardini.
‘Something More; (1989) is a photographic series composed of six colour prints and three black-and-white prints. It is a now-iconic series of photographs that built Moffatt’s first widespread public attention, each of which borrows from film language to construct what is described as “an enigmatic narrative of a young woman looking for more out of life than the circumstances of her violent rural upbringing.” The series has been described by critic Ingrid Perez as ‘a collection of scenes from a film that was never made. While the film may never have been made, we recognise its components from a shared cultural memory of B-grade cinema and pulp fiction, from which Moffatt has drawn this melodrama. The ‘scenes’ can be displayed in any order – in pairs, rows or as a grid – and so their storyline is not fixed, although we piece together the arc from naïve country girl to fallen woman abandoned on the roadside in whatever arrangement they take.
In Moffatt’s series ‘Up in the Sky‘ (1997), the artist employs the aesthetic conventions of Italian Neo-Realist films to portray scenes of an outback town in which there is some lurking violence. “My work is full of emotion and drama, you can get to that drama by using a narrative, and my narratives are usually very simple, but I twist it,” she has explained. “There is a storyline, but there isn’t a traditional beginning, middle, and end.” The 25 images in Up in the Sky read like stills from a black-and-white movie, set in an Australian outback town desolated by poverty, violence and despair. The narrative of the series is non-linear, but threaded through it are the figures of a young white woman and an Aboriginal baby who represent moments of peace and love amongst the menacing figures of grim nuns withered old men and feral townspeople.
Contact Sheets
These are some of my contact sheets from the photoshoot, they consist of portraits that are taken from different angles and in different lighting so that I could find which look best for each individual person. I also tried to get as many different faces/emotions as I could so that there were contrasting emotions and it also made it easier to make different sequences.
Editing
In most of my photos, I really like how they came out a first hand so I have only slightly adjusted the exposure, contrast and some others etc, highlights and shadows.
Final Images
I have chosen to do two different sequences, the first one is us smiling either towards the camera or while looking away and the second one is the black expressions looking straight at the camera. These are two different and contrasting sequences as there are very different emotions being shown.