Clare Rae is a photographer and artist working in Melbourne, Australia. She explores feminism through photographing women’s bodies in a performative and awkward way in hopes of showing the the dominant modes of representation.
She visited Jersey in 2017 where she research Claude Cahun, produced new material, and ran workshops as a part of the Archisle international artist-in-residence programme. Rae created a series called “Never standing on two feet” which featured some of Jerseys beautiful landscapes as Clare considered Cahun’s engagement with with the physical and cultural environment of Jersey. The project was exhibited in Melbourne at Centre for Contemporary Photography as Entre Nous: Claude Cahun and Clare Rae from 22 March – 6 May 2018, and then in Jersey at CCA Galleries from 7–28 September 2018.
“Like Cahun’s, my photographs depict my body in relation to place; in these instances sites of coastal geography and Jersey’s Neolithic ritual monuments. I enact a visual dialogue between the body and these environments, and test how their photographic histories impact upon contemporary engagements.”
For this photo all I did was gradient maps and I don’t think the photo needs anymore considering if I added more in editing I think it will take away aspects of the photo that I want. for instance I took inspiration from Danny Lyons and his photos are black and white and that’s it so if I added anymore the photo wouldn’t get the same effect that I want for the photo.
when editing this photo and I wanted it to have a old simplistic effect as I said about the photo above this photo that I took inspiration from Danny Lyons and adding more to the photo would not give the same feel to the photo that i want the photo to feel like when’s someone’s looking at it
when editing this photo it was me trying to sharpen it up no fancy editing thing but I did wanted to keep the glare in the visor just because I thought it looks good. when editing i stopped for a minute looked at the photo and then stopped when I was happy with the photo.
when editing this photo I wanted it to look good because I like the photo its quiet stoic and I believe with the editing I could have done a lot better however the photo turned out ok
when editing this photo I tried to give a depressing effect or sad effect and I believe when people look at this photo they feel or know that the person in the photo is depressed and the light in the photo is a bit hope however this photo is the oldest one in this photo edits and I choose to use this one in the mock because I haven’t gotten to use it in yet and I believe it turned out good.
Using artsteps gallery creator, I made my virtual gallery.
I first chose the space that my gallery would be in, in the past I have picked the Industrial Venue, this time round I picked the Modern Venue.
I then selected my images, both the ones I have chosen to print and some of the other images that I didn’t pick to be printed. This left me with 17 images to put into the gallery.
The gallery with all the images in:
As I said before, most of the images are my final outcomes; the environmental portraits, the red and blue lighting images on the side of them, the images in the mirror (the coloured ones and the regular lighting ones), the images in the suit. I have also included some images that I liked during the project but didn’t include because they weren’t my best or I just had a lot of prints already, this was done to fill in any big gaps in the gallery.
