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…

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…

Kirlian Photography

After looking at one of Jacob Von Narkiewicz-Jodko’s image of the ‘Electrocuted Hand’ on Friday’s lecture I was keen to understand the process which had created it. A process known as Kirlian photography was used, this process has been seen in use since the 1700s but wasn’t officially invented until 1939 by Semyon Davidovitch Kirlian. The…

John Loengard, Manchester 1968

John Loengard’s book ‘Moment by Moment’ focuses on the fact that “a good photograph cannot be repeated” but it “can hold our interest forever.” This image is an example of a moment that cannot be repeated, as while this image was being taken, the boy’s mother called him from down the street, capturing this cheeky…

Track List

I’ve been doing a lot of work in a sketchbook recently as I find it helpful to see everything in front of me, so haven’t done much on my blog but will continue updating my progress. I’ve been sketching plans for my images as well as analysing the album in more detail. Bellow I am going to…

Arthur C. Danto – Cindy Sherman

“The girl is always alone, waiting worried, watchful, but she is wary of, waiting for, worried about, and her very posture and expression phenomenologically imply The Other: the Stalker, the Saver, theEvil and Good who struggle for her possession.” – Arthur C. Danto While Sherman appears in this series alone, we feel the presence of another…

Gregory Crewdson – Dream House

This project by Crewdson was based in a vacant ranch house in Rutland. The woman who had once lived there died four years earlier “All of the family’s possessions, all of the furniture had been left there untouched like a kind of museum or tomb”. This house became the stage for scenes that could take place anywhere within…

Daido Moriyama – Michael Hoppen Gallery

Today I went to the Daido Moriyama exhibition at the Michael Hoppen Gallery, this gallery space was set around a table in the centre of the room. The table made this space feel more homely, surrounded by bookshelves, this space felt more and more personal as I walked around. This perfectly accompanied the works which…

Bruce Davidson – Brooklyn Gang

At 25 Bruce Davidson read about the gang and wanted to capture the spirit of youth in New York after the war. Davidson contacted a social worker who was in touch with a gang called The Jokers. “They were 15, 16 year old, Polish and Irish kids. They were abandoned, there was nothing for them, there was…

Ma Fleur – The Cinematic Orchestra

I have loved this album for a long time and I am currently in the possession of my friend’s copy of the album on vinyl. This album comes with 11 pictures inside with the message: “The photographs you find here have been chosen to accompany each of the songs contained on ‘Ma Fleur’. Inspired by but not…