Experimentation

I was inspired by Yoshikatsu Fuji’s ‘Red string’ book as all the photos and different elements of the final piece is connected by the red string. Most of the photos are stitched into the book and while reading you following the red string to the different parts of Fuji and his parents lives before their divorce.

My Work

I have put together three photos of my dad, all taken of the right side of his face and in black and white. I have been testing out different positions and sequences of the photos to see what will look best with this group of photos. I have tried to make sure that the photos will be able to be connect by red ‘string’ which I will do on photoshop.

I have added red ‘string’ to the sequence so that I can see how it will look with the different positions of the photos. Once the images are printed out I will replace the red lines from photoshop with actual red string so when you look at the final piece the red will pop out as it will be sitting on top of the frame which will connect all of my final images.

In the first edit I like how the images are going down in size order and how it seems that the red ‘string’ will fall through the photos and not going over them so it covers parts of the images. For the second edit I like how the middle image isn’t centred exactly in the middle of the two images above and below it, I also like how there is more of a thought out order to the placement of the photos as it represents the actual motions of what my dad is doing. In edit 3 I have chosen to place the photos horizontally instead of vertically like the other two, what I like about this edit is that photos look like that they are all hanging from the string as if it had actually been hung up, even through the photos could have bigger spacer in between them which would make it looked less squished together I like how they all look next to each other and the sequence of the photos. Edit three photos are in the same order that edit two are and that I shows the motions and are not just in a random order.

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