Images that I’m going to print

Layout experiments

Same layout with different coloured backgrounds:

Different layout with different colours:

— Final choices and why I chose them —

For my first photograph, I ended up photographing a picture of the Berlin wall way after it was built up and knocked down. I enjoyed the overall look of this photograph as it gave off quite a freeing image as it is extremely damaged and has also been vandalised, indicating that people have the freedom to do whatever they want to it and to show that it is no longer a worry to them. I wanted to take the photograph at a different angle so that I could show off the extent of the size that it is, photographing it at a sideways angle made me think that I was managing to get a feel of how large the wall is.

For my second photograph, I decided to photograph an almost urban location from within Berlin as to show what the city looks like nowadays after the events of the war. I wanted to follow a similar editing theme to that of the first one by making it black and white. I was heavily inspired by Michael Schmidt with this photograph as I mainly focused on the urban aspects of the city rather than the rural areas which is something the Schmidt has showcased in his book “Berlin nach 45”.

For my third photograph, I ended up following the same approach with the style of the image to the first and second image. For this image, I decided to photograph within Auschwitz and I really wanted to display the building in the background followed by the barbed wire in front of it. I once again took inspiration from Michael Schmidt when editing my image, maintaining the eerie sense of this German occupant concentration camp. Michael’s work tends to consist of buildings within the area of Berlin that are manufactured or improved after the events of World War II. His images tend to be quite simple but I went for a more complex approach by containing more into the image such as the barbed wire overlapping over the building in the background.

For my fourth photograph, I decided to photograph the alleyway between one of the buildings in Auschwitz and the barbed wire that was used to prevent anyone from escaping the facility. I wanted to capture just the sheer amount of fear that the victims of this concentration camp would have had to endure by enhancing its terrifying layout of the location. Once again I decided to add on a black and white filter, just to make the image look a lot more dispiriting and to show the negative impact this has on the society.

Physical prints – Mounting my photographs

Here I have a selection of my physical prints which I have mounted up and laid out. I wanted to take an image from each photoshoot and print them off as an A3 image as to really illustrate the large impact given off at a large-scale. I wanted to highlight their importance so I made separate window mounts for each image so that they are their own thing but can also come together in a series.

After mounting my large A3 images, I went onto laying out my A4 images by first laying them out on both a black and white background to see which one I much preferred. After selecting which one I wanted to use, I grabbed some foam board and spray mounted an image onto the board and cut around it as to create a lifted image. I repeated this for another image so that I had two in total, I wanted to have two lifted images and two completely flat images on the board.

Below I have another example of a print layout experiment that I ended up doing as to finalise what colour I wanted to use for the background of my images. I ended up choosing white in the end as I thought it complimented the images more than the solid black.