Thursday 17 December 2009

Urban Landscape as backdrop for a person projcet

Selecting a favorite locations and introduce the figure of a person,experimenting with the following techniques:
-Filling Flash
-Slow sync Flash
-Painting with Light
-Mixed Light
-Silhouette
Images is been inspired by the American photographer Gregory Crewdson in his book "Twilight book"







Location Hunting Projecet

This is an assignment to fined location's around the university,by experimenting with the following techniques:
-Maximum depth of filed.
-Minimum depth of field(selective focusing).
-Exploring movements using different shutter speed.
-Focusing.








London Poem Projcet

As a part of the City and Culture brief series, is to choose a poem about the city of London and he Undergrounds from "London Poems"and to develop a series of images in B/W that illustrate the idea and the meaning of the poem, according to own interpretation.
I have used a 35mm Colorsplash Camera Chakras, a B/W .
The poem
"Round and round the London Underground" by Sylvia Chidi

Round and round the London Underground
Interrupted by the braking screeching sounds
Round and round the circle line

The London underground
With its stops is an elongated list
Drunks battle in tunnels with open fists
Hidden somewhere is a network of CCTV Cameras
Recording your every move from afar
Watch out for the picker-pockets, I insist
They swindle even the most experienced tourist

Inside the trains, shine disoriented faces
Bodies usually squeezed into tight spaces
'Please stand clear of the door'
It is an advice not yet a law

Stations by station, trains pass by
Stuck in a tunnel, let out a sigh
Train timetables from my perception
Is regularity, and a common deception

Round and round the London Underground
Interrupted by the braking screeching sounds
Round and round the circle line

Bored, read the metro
It is free, when displayed on show
For those who know
Where to go
Plan your alternative routes
Prepare for train strikes and disputes
Check out the cancellation signs
May your journey be divine!

My images was inspired by Robert Frank in his process described as a "visual autobiography", and consists largely of personal photographs. However, he largely gave up "straight" photography to instead create narratives out of constructed images and collages, incorporating words and multiple frames of images that were directly scratched and distorted on the negatives. None of this later work has achieved an impact or notoriety comparable to that which The Americans achieved. As some critics have pointed out, this is perhaps because Frank began playing with constructed images more than a decade after Robert Rauschenberg The Americans, Frank's later images simply were not beyond the pale of accepted technique and practice by that time.
introduced his silkscreen .



The Portrait as a Landscape

The project is to visit the National Portrait Gallery, where I have to discuss in a small group ,some of the permanent portrait collections on the ground floor (*1) and the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Peize'09(*2).

This includes photography,Painting,Sculpture and a Video.And to engage with context of the work,as well as the formal elements,such as how it was composed, arranged and constructed visually.Choose one portrait image,research it and then visually recreate it as cityscape photograph.The photograph can either be a 'portrait' of building or a 'city landscape'. The work could also be presented in the way that reflects the original piece.

The image i have chosen is a portrait of Jason Brooks this artist works on a huge scale portrait of Sir Paul Maxime Nurse ('Paul'), he works from photographs originally taken of the subject, he then uses those images to create these momentous paintings using a fine spray painting technique. and my photo to reprented is the City Hall London .