Exhibition Plans

Since I decided to change my project idea towards the end of term I didn’t get much time to think about how I wanted to present my work. Initially, I had spent a lot of time thinking about what we’ve discussed in a few lectures about immersive exhibitions and how an interactive space can create…

Beyond ‘Beyond the Frame’- Project Proposal

Coming back to university this year was an extremely hard decision. First year wasn’t particularly enjoyable having been dumped by my boyfriend (of two years) three days before I moved into halls. The first month I barely spoke to anyone, I didn’t really want to see anyone, but this set me out on a very…

Contact Sheet

This is my contact sheet from the two rolls of Ilford HP5 I shot for my project (minus bunny pic). Some of the scans seem to have taken the purple hue of the film but this can be edited in post-production. I have mixed feeling about these images and feel that some are definitely more…

Shooting Plan

Over the weekend I am intending to shoot for my new project idea, focusing on anxiety and depression. This is a subject that is covered vastly by a range of arts yet I have never seen any photography that can capture the emotions in the same way that music or painting can. But I feel…

Too many failed attempts

Over the past few weeks, I have been trying to turn my room into a camera obscura, however every time I have attempted this I have failed miserably. I have a very large window and getting anything to stay covering it is proving impossible. I’m currently very stuck for ideas on how to resolve this…

Camera Obscura

After meeting with my tutor, we discussed a few options in terms of how to progress my project forward. Instead of using prisms and focusing on the splitting of light, I am instead going to attempt to make a camera obscura. A camera obscura is the oldest form of camera, it relies on nothing but…

Prism Experiments

The other day I went to the darkrooms to have a bit of an experiment with the effect of prisms on photographic paper. I had been thinking a lot about what I had wanted to achieve in these experiments (partly because the prisms took so long to arrive). I had hoped that by placing prisms…

Space Shifters

Last weekend I visited the South Bank Gallery to see the exhibition ‘Shape Shifters’. This was a very immersive exhibition encouraging you to interact with the space and become absorbed in the installations. There were even live performers there who (well who else can I put it…?) wearing mirrors and walking around the space with…

Edgar Martins at the Purdy Hicks Gallery

On Thursday, I visited the Purdy Hicks Gallery for a talk with Edgar Martins. Martins was discussing work from two of his recent projects which are being exhibited there. Work from ‘Silloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes’ from 2017 and ‘What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase’ from 2018, while…

Week 5: History- Methodical Contextualisation

Today we looked at how impactful history is at placing an image within its context and thereby giving it a more powerful message. Every photograph, every artwork, every sculpture is a product of its time and probably would have never come about if the artist wasn’t exposed to the same social, political, economical and cultural…