“As a Jew, it’s my own little moment of revenge.” “It was my impression of a Nazi who managed to survive yet killed millions of people” – Arnold

This image is an environmental portrait as it shows the connection between the person and the place. The emotions this image gives off is intimidating, powerful and scary. This is due to the lighting mainly, its under-exposed, dark and manipulated. You can see only his head and hands being mainly highlighted and then the back with the lights leading down into the far back creating the dimensions on the image to be different. The white balance is more cold to give off the eerie feeling that this image has created. You can also see the texture in the large panels places on each side of him almost symmetrically to frame him more as the main focus. Once again the spacing of the image being that Alfred is in front of everything demonstrating its to do with him and has value to him, the eye contact he’s making by looking down through the lens to show authority has an impact on the emotion the audience can get from this picture. The contextual meaning in this image is that the background is a train station, this is where Alfred worked, he would help make trains and train tracks which would lead Jews to concentration camps during WW2 his positioning in this image almost hints that its where he works. The concept of this photo is that the photographer Arnold Newman was a Jew himself and had aimed to be able to capture, Newman had a platform specifically erected in order to place Krupp against an industrial backdrop and he knew exactly what kind of image he had in mind. Alfred assumed he was getting a normal portrait but instead the very powerful image demonstrated how arrogant and evil the man was. He sent off several Jews onto trains for them to then get killed.

This image was taken at Plemont Beach and had a relation to Dafna Talmor’s work. I tried to replicate her style digitally, therefore I have went to locations she chooses, which are mainly coastal areas. then in Photoshop I had then experimented with the lasso tool and paintbrush tool, to create segments out of the image, representing Dafna’s ones. out of all the final outcomes this photo shoot as well as editing took the longest amount of time and was quite tricky as I wasn’t too experienced using Photoshop. But I am happy with the outcome as it turned out quite similar to the artists work , despite the fact that these were done digitally whereas hers are not.

This image was done during the rural landscape trip, I have picked this one as a final image from this photoshoot because of its simple but calming atmosphere. I really like the quality of the image as even sharpness of the clouds can be seen in the reflection of the windows. I like the contrast that it creates to all of my final images, I am not a big fan of rural landscapes outcomes I have come out with, perhaps it is because of the sharpness that the objects show, with many edges and corners as well as straight lines. this is why I like this specific image the most because of the smoothness achieved by the building itself but also because of the image editing that creates a dreamy effect.

This image was created by experimenting with kaleidoscope imagery effect. this was a form of photo montaging done digitally. As this was my first time using this method to create this image I am surprised with the effect this created. I have took a zoomed in image of a building, done on the industrial photoshoot, then with selected image I have produced this final photograph. I like how the shapes represent the look of eyes and how abstract the image looks.

this was a typology done for experimentation of creating one. my main subject were doors, out of the couple of images I have produced I have put them in a grid creating a typology. this experimental process made my pick the outcome as a final photograph as it shows a different range of images I am capable to produce.

This image was originally converted digitally to show the process of Dafna Talmors images. and to respond to her work. I have the result of this uploaded however I really liked how the image looked by itself and that’s what I decided to go with. the image is unsettling and ominous, that’s why because of this mystery I wanted it as part of my final landscapes outcome.

The bellow photographs are both part of Gerhard Richter’s response. Where I was influenced by his work to create the images. On printed photographs I have combined them with paint which was applied with a palette knife. I loved how these turned out because of the richness of colour, therefore I wanted to include both and only outcomes of that response.

The bellow images are responses to Matthew Brandt’s way of working and a response to Anthropocene project. I loved these photographs because of the texture, colour, and experimentation which lead to unique , abstract images.

Compared to the other topic of objects, and still life, I have enjoyed this one more and have succeeded more in the landscape project. This lead me to produce a variation of different outcomes, I have experimented a lot more with the images is well, trying out new things. many of my outcomes are abstract , and through my final photographs I show a big differentiation between each image. As the landscape project is divided into industrial and rural landscape I have enjoyed both equally, however when it comes to photoshoots I have came up with more rural landscape outcomes, simply because I enjoyed spending time in these areas more. I felt like the landscape project has allowed me to be very free when it comes the areas and photographs I want to create, whereas the still life project was far less experimental on my behalf and more narrowed to the options I had.

Environmental Portraits are images of individuals which show them in a setting which represents who they are and what they do in either their home life or professional life. This genre can produce images that give a truly interesting insight into the subjects and their stories. I really enjoy some of the most significant images from this style as they are extremely cinematic in their raw and direct nature.

Some influential artists that I will be studying include;

Arnold Newman (1918 – 2006)

Mary Ellen Mark (1940 – 2015)

Paul strand (1890 – 1976)

Michelle Sank (1953 – )

Bert Teunissen (1959 – )

Emotional Response

Technical – how was the photo taken

Visual -what can we see in the image

Conceptual – why was the photo taken / presented

Contextual – who, when, where etc…the story, background, impact

 An environmental portrait is a photographed portrait that captures subjects in their natural surroundings. It is one of the four main types of portraits Constructionist, Candid, Environmental, and Creative.

With this A3 image I decided to create a window mount, this is because the size of the image already speaks for the actual photo itself. This image was taken in Town, St Helier, and when editing I decided to change it to a black and white image as it gives a further connotations of the world dying. This fit with the Anthropocene project.

These images I created during my further editing and experimenting. I printed them A4 and mounted them on white foam board, this is so the image look more eye catching to the audience walking passed. I didn’t created a tryptic with the highlighter image as it didn’t seem to have any relation to these other images.

For these images I created a window mount

For the image below I cut the picture into strips, then mounted the image on some foam board and then glued them on white card.

For the ones below I mounted them on some foam board and then glued them on white/black card.

With my final images, i framed them by mounting them onto foam board and sticking them onto a black board and more foam board.

I paired these two together as they have the theme of water in common.

These two images are from the same photoshoot, they are slightly different images and one image is in black and white so i boarded them next to each other.