Here I’m planning to go round places where its not very busy and everything is very subtle, however my photoshoot will look very different as it wouldn’t be snowing when I take these photos, it will most likely be sunny or raining, I would like to find a single house planted in the middle of no where as it adds such mystery to the house and why it may be there. I also chose a photograph that seems to have an effect to it which makes it look very unusual, I could round to a neighbourhood and take pictures of the houses scattered around and simply add an effect to it after, however if I wanted to make it look different I could go when the sun is setting or rising to make the effect look different and have different levelling of the colours.
Mariska Lavigne has a photoshoot called lost lands where she takes photos of different buildings that may give off a lost sensation. There are many buildings that are in the middle of nothing, and unusual leaves that just look out of this world, Lavigne created images of anything that looked “different” and didn’t fit to the normal standard of todays world which shows us that everyone, everything is different.
She had been Travelling through Iceland for four months, a country she was unfamiliar with: The light was bright, colours were vivid, and by the end of my trip the sun kept on shining all night long. Snow still held the country in its veil, creating a big white void. she states that this has a way of cleaning up the landscape, the scenery gets more graphic. she always wondering how this scene would look like in wintertime to see how different the sky and the environment would look, she had decided to go back for another month in January. The country turns blue at dusk in wintertime. All colours fade. Cities look like scale models seeking shelter from the weather in the shadow of the mountains. It was her intention to express the dazzling moment, she wanted to get different point of views of the different season around them and how differently the world may look if the sun is out or if the sky if full of gloomy clouds.
Lavignes photos look very unusual, and scary, they give a weird vibe to the world, almost as if something was wrong, everyone in that photo knows that something is gong on but you as the viewer have to try and piece the puzzle and figure out what is wrong. The colours in the photo look really dull and gloomy and give the impression that possibly something is in the water, creeping up to the people in the surroundings. There aren’t many bright colours in the photo either which changes the mood completely, if there were bright colours then the photo would look almost as if it was a normal sunny day but the foggy effect makes the photo look peculiar and odd fitting.
“Maroesjka Lavigne (b.1989, Belgium) gained her Masters in Photography at Ghent University in the summer of 2012. Her work has been shown internationally at the Foam Talent exhibition in Amsterdam, The Robert Mann Gallery in New York, Galerie Hug in Paris and Museum Saint Guislain in Gent, Belgium, among others. She self-published a book called ‘ísland’ in 2012 that sold out. In 2014 she published a postcard version of this book. In 2015 she made a commissioned work ‘Not seeing is a Flower’ in collaboration with the Flanders centre in Osaka. This was published in the catalog called Facing Japan. Her latest project ‘Land of Nothingness’ is made in Namibia and exhibited in the Robert Mann Gallery in New York.“
