I think these photos were really successful I tried to recreate the hands picture with both and guy and a girl as you can clearly see which is which as the female hand has the softer shapes and she has has her nailed done which is quite a feminine trait. Then you have the males hand which is a lot more angular you can see those more prominent veins and bones in the hand unlike with the feminine hand.

For this half of photoshoot I strayed away from the artist as I wanted to a more playful side to men and women and show more action shots rather than showing how they are physically different I tired to show it more through personality and emotion.

I think the mirror photo worked really well in my opinion because being focused on your looks and making sure you look good society shows as more of a feminine quality so having the male model play with his hair and look in the mirror was me trying to show how guys also worry about their looks.

I think these images were very successful I think the colours give the images a playful and feminine feel to them as they are also quite stereotypically feminine colours. The photos of the model sitting I tried to have her appear more masculine by sitting up very straight and appearing really confident which is usually associated as more of a masculine trait to have.

I then tried to do the opposite with the photos above by showing the friendship and the connection between the two models as being close and hugging is once again more of a feminine thing to do in society.

I think both of these images came out really good although it isn’t the same exact same as the inspiration artist I think the links and inspiration is quite clear which I like. As I still have that clearly distorted image but instead of just stretching the models face I’ve made the picture look all wobbly and unclear which is how he may feel emotionally.

I think overall I’m very happy with this photoshoot because i also feel like the original artist should have had similar ones just with wen as its quite common for people to believe women are the ones who struggle with self image however men also face those issues too so by having the model be male I think i captured how men don’t always have a constant self image too.

This is definitely one of my favourite photos I took for this photoshoot. I love the way i can tell who I was inspired by and captured her exempts without completely coping the image. I think the picture works really well with the model being in focus and the the plants being blurred it kind of creates this boundary between the two. It also softens the image slightly I find which I think helps show off the femininity within the photo.

Overall I believe the photoshoot came out well I was happy with the photos. They had clear links to the inspiration. I think all the photos ended up looking really feminine with those soft shapes and colours which is what I was trying to achieve.

I think if I was doing the photos again I would try and have more of a side on shot of the hair in the wind like Lauren Withrow has because I think being able to see her face as well as her her was very successful.

I’m very happy with how this photoshoot came out I think the first one is my favourite because I think it looks good that u can easily tell which part of the face unlike some of the others where it’s not as clear I just don’t think it works very well as it makes the photo look overly busy and chaotic. Whereas although there is a lot going on in the first image it loos quite organised.

I also think the contrast in the first one works really well because the models face is well lit up which contrasts nicely against the dark background which does draw more attention to her face

• In this first photoshoot I focused on taking photographs centralised on females and the female body/features, things that can be considered more feminine like and more stereotypical. We used different lightning to contrast and to play around with the differences and how to highlight different elements to make them much more vibrant and bold.

• In this photo shoot, I focused on emphasizing and including the different features of the female body and general features that aren’t generally “highlighted” (in the photo and metaphorically). In the photograph, the chest and lower stomach are emphasized with the bright blue lighting presented in the specific area. This bright blue lighting can alternately show thoughts of the stereotypical outlook on gender with colors of pink being used for females and blue for boys, this contrast between the harsh and brightly lit blue lighting being emphasized on a female body, especially on more highlighted parts linking to femininity and feminine insecurities creates this collision between feminity and masculinity. This collision presents the differences that can be shown in both genders and makes these “binary opposites” more understood.

• The three photographs above all present the model’s skin and different textures of skin presented under different angles, different lighting, and different positions. I believe the photographs add even more under the term femininity as many females would be uncomfortable and less likely to present their stomach so freely and unde “harsh” and “unflattering” lighting as it is uncommon in this day and age for “uncomplimentary” photographs to be shown so freely publicly due to feminine insecurities and personal problems and issues with young girls bodies and the way they are portrayed.

• In the photographs above the model is positioned in a “masculine-like” way, this term can be described as “man’s spreading” typically done and presented on a male body and approach, this gender identity can opposed where the female subject performs this with her body highlighting this opposition, as well as the lighting and “contrast” as the two similar photographs appear to have a bitter tone of red on the face. The subject puts on a “fearless” and bold/brave face as the light appears more red-toned but as the photograph appears darker and bluer on the right the subject looks more relaxed, joyful, and bubbly. The variation between the lighting and how it can affect the way a person can be influenced to “behave” and “look the part” can show links between strength vs weakness as the different lighting can change whether an individual “looks” more intimidating yet “stronger”.

• In these photographs, the subject is another female recreating similar outlooks from before. The difference between the red and blue pairs well together especially in the second photograph when there is a clear split between the tonalities. In the first photograph, the subject is smiling and appears very bubbly. This contrasts with the other subjects under similar outlooks but the other subjects looked in a more “masculine” and bolder way.

• In this photograph I positioned myself so my “hip dips” can be clearer to see and present. I made sure that they look highlighted behind the light and angled. I like how the colourful light looks and how it focuses on that specific part making it look important and the main symbol.

• In this photoshoot my friends and I took photos inspired by Cindy Sherman and her 1950s inspired housewife untitled stills. We created and took inspiration form Cindy Sherman when creating these photographs, by taking photos by the kitchen e.g floors, sinks, cabinets, stove or on the bed. Things that worked well in the photoshoot was taking photographs inspired on the bed and positioning the model similarly to how Cindy Sherman did in her own work.

• I tried recreating the crying/ physically abused Cindy Sherman untitled still by creating a makeup smeared appearance on myself and my other subject in the photograph below.

• I looked at her work and found the location to be similar e.g. bookcase. Many if not all Cindy Sherman’s photographs are in black and white with a slight orange/brown hue/photo filter to added to the old fashioned look.

• When choosing the subjects facial expressions in the photographs many of the Cindy Sherman’s look innocent, hurt, scare yet confused at the same time, I tried to recreate that in my photographs.

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John Constable was a landscape painter during the romantic era. He was one of the first artists of the Romantic movement to create landscape paintings drawn directly from nature. The image below was originally titled as Landscape Noon but is now known universally as the Hay Wain.

‘The Hay Wain’ not only shows the beauty of nature but also the charm of rural life. The horse-drawn cart, shows the agricultural way of life in the English countryside.

While we are aware that the Industrial Revolution is occurring at this time, this painting seems peaceful. There are no signs of factories or industrialisation tainting the image.

The painting looks detailed, but on closer inspection, it has been painted with expressive brush marks that show a real sense of emotion and life within the scene.

What?

For my photoshoots I will photograph the damaged landscapes of Jersey due to Storm Ciaran. Throughout the night of Wednesday November 1st 2023, Jersey and the other channel islands, Guernsey and Sark, experienced a tornado ravage across their landscapes. With Jersey hit the worst, every parish had received some extent of destruction. Examples of such include trees falling onto homes and entire buildings have roofs and walls ripped off. Waking up to the damage, islands found out that many roads were impossible to traverse through and walking paths were blocked. The railway walk in St brelade, had become entirely covered in fallen trees and branches making it hardly able to recognise.

The neighbourhood in the area of FB fields had received the brunt of the storm, with many windows, roofs, gardens, car severely damaged to a point of unrecognition of what it previously looked like. Photos of street looked like an image of a war zone.

In comparison to the previous storm in 1987, that Jersey islanders nicknamed the ‘Great Storm’, the damage to the island was caused by much more violent and strong winds. Islanders alive who have experienced both reminisced to the time and have said the severity of damage it caused was similar to as it was now.

(The ‘Great Storm, 1987)

Who?

• I will capture images around island of damage caused by storm Ciaran as well as some of Jerseys urbanised areas.

Where?

• Town – old areas in St Helier’s urban area such as the brewery, abandoned buildings, alley ways are a good example plus show storm damage. Houses around town are also being worked on with roof patching etc.

The top of car parks, provide a good height over towns urbanised topography. This is how I will create similar images such as to these. Places like fort regent will be useful as well.

• Noirmont – fallen trees are still populating the area and is a good way to show the impact on the woodland area and farm surrounding it.
• The railway walk – Numerous trees are still collapsed in that area and will provide a good example of regularly used pathways damaged.

When?

Over the half-term I will attempt to photograph a variety of different areas affected by the storm. By having photoshoots of different areas effected it will help create a good contextual basis on what happened like how Frank Gohlke did with the tornado damage to his home town, Wichita Falls in Texas.

Mind Map –

For my photoshoots I plan on creating at least 3, capturing different areas of damage caused by storm Ciaran. The idea I had in mind was to have them capture: Urban damage ( Town area), Environmental damage (walk paths, fallen trees in woods etc) and property damage (specific cases of peoples homes and what types of damage has been done, such as cars, gardens, roofs, walls, etc).

(Idea of general location – Town)

(Idea of general location – Noirmont, railway track, St Catherine’s woods)

(Idea of general location – houses in states effected heavily by the storm)

With these general locations in mind, this will be a starting point for my conceptual basis with my photoshoots.

Mood board:

Artist studies:

Robert Adams –

Born, May 8th 1937, Robert Adams is an American Photographer apart of the ‘New Topographics’ , were him and other photographers captured the aesthetic of rapidly urbanised landscapes such as parking lots, warehouses, and suburban houses. His work is said to explore and reveal the effects of human impact on wildness and open space, furthermore it is spoken that his work also shows the hollowed out idea of ‘Manifest Destiny’ when expanded in the 19th century and that this once rapid expansion has led to after effects of consumption of the landscapes. With these images, i feel as if this is best shown as a once, large peaceful expansion of calm has been converted into a populated area of both busyness and desolation of urban sprawl.

Lewis Baltz –

Born, September 12th 1945, Lewis Baltz can be seen as one of the young prodigy’s of the baby boom generation to capture the aesthetics of the ‘New Topographics’. Like Adams, his work exposes the vast Urban sprawl, now left desolate and unused post second world war. With the grand scale of industrial output during the second world, large structures as seen in this image sit unused and worn out from a past, once busier function. Now, numerous areas like this, are captured by Baltz.

Frank Gohlke –

Born, April 3rd 1942, Frank Gohlke was another photographer apart of this aesthetic. Photographing urban areas such suburb neighbourhoods and old factories within towns, Gohlke, differed slightly from the rest as his photos also consisted of cases of destruction in urban areas. Such as the aftermath of a tornado hitting his home town Wichita Falls Texas, in 1979, as well as the destruction of property surrounding mount St Helens following its eruption in 1980.

( Tornado aftermath, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1979)

Frank Gohlkes’s work is significant to me as his photographs are highly similar in comparison to our project for this topic. Our project is to compose photoshoots of the damage caused to our islands landscapes following storm Ciaran in November of 2023.

All of these Photographers have had their work featured in numerous Art galleries, such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Most importantly, all 3 were apart of a group of 10 photographers who were selected to be a part of the “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” and featured in the 1975 exhibition at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.

Quotes:

No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

– Robert Adams

If you read what, say, Weston was writing in the 1920s he talked about an industrial medium, reflective surfaces, contemporary subject matter—it’s a straighter line to [Ed] Ruscha’s 26 Gas Stations than it would ever be to Ansel Adam’s pictures of Yosemite and their kitschy calendar sensibility.

– Lewis Baltz

The best landscape images, whatever their medium and whatever other emotions they may evoke… propose the possibility of an intimate connection with a world to which we have access only through our eyes, a promise containing its own denial.

– Frank Gohlke

Image analysis

For this image analysis, I have chosen to look at Frank Gohlke’s work as I believe it will be the best point of reference for my photoshoots.

Romanticism

Romanticism is a movement in arts and literature which originated in the late 18th century, during the French Revolution and also the Industrial Revolution. This was when people went from hand making things, to using machinery. However, romanticism made a point of emphasizing nature over industry.

The rise of Romanticism led to the rise of landscape art. It characterised literature, music, painting and architecture. Romanticism is linked with landscape and the sense of romance of the landscape features its spirit in full bloom. Romanticism is therefore, attitudes, ideas, and feelings which are romantic rather than realistic.

The Sublime

It is the idea of an ‘Internal’ photo, meaning ‘Emotional’ and an ‘External’ photo, meaning ‘Nature and the Environment’. The sublime is defined by Edmund Burk as art that refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation. It is both beautiful and terrifying in its power or potential darkness. Artists explored the sublime in depth through art. They used paintings and drawings of the imagination, however they could often turn into nightmares. Natural landscapes were mighty and nice to look at and people admired the aesthetics but they were always dangerous.