Research
Usually I blog and blog about the books I am reading on photographers such as:-
- Lewis Baltz
- Stephen Shore
- Joel Stermfeld
- Robert Voit
- William Eggleston - to name a few
And books such as:-
- New topographics
- Altered Landscape
- Shooting Space
- The nature of photographs etc
I look through my books every evening, read the latest editions of various magazines and then use the internet to check the work out of other photographers within the periodicals. My aim for this project was more of a research into myself as a fine art photographer, looking through my previous 3 years of work and reading feedback, paying attention to the notes I made after sessions of constructive criticism and then combining this with where I want to proceed in the future, giving consideration to further education.
I believe the work I am producing now can be seen to have a little influence of all my research, not only influence from photographers but also research in how an image works and sometimes still getting a little of my humour in to the image.
What I have learned is to try and add a little to the composition, to engage the intended viewer for more than just the usual glance, rather than just a straight forward industrial composition as in my minor project submission. Having displayed my images on an easel in my living room I have come to enjoy my images a lot more and that was a big step for me.
Where as my minor project focused more on shape and structure, I believe with more of an influence from Lewis Baltz than any other photographer, this time I have tried to put that to the back of my mind and photograph a lot more on what appealed to me - what I found to be aesthetically pleasing.
As with most of my images through out the degree, all of my compositions for my major project are void of people yet show the existence of people, excluding the street photography and portraits obviously (mind - even then my street photography compositions were not crowded with people). I like the idea of showing these busy places; industrial estates, car parks, chemical sites and docks etc, places where man has made its mark, places where we go to make money, where we spend our days and yet on an evening, once man has left, nature takes over and in the right light all these places come alive and become beautiful in their own right.
I believe the work I am producing now can be seen to have a little influence of all my research, not only influence from photographers but also research in how an image works and sometimes still getting a little of my humour in to the image.
What I have learned is to try and add a little to the composition, to engage the intended viewer for more than just the usual glance, rather than just a straight forward industrial composition as in my minor project submission. Having displayed my images on an easel in my living room I have come to enjoy my images a lot more and that was a big step for me.
Where as my minor project focused more on shape and structure, I believe with more of an influence from Lewis Baltz than any other photographer, this time I have tried to put that to the back of my mind and photograph a lot more on what appealed to me - what I found to be aesthetically pleasing.
As with most of my images through out the degree, all of my compositions for my major project are void of people yet show the existence of people, excluding the street photography and portraits obviously (mind - even then my street photography compositions were not crowded with people). I like the idea of showing these busy places; industrial estates, car parks, chemical sites and docks etc, places where man has made its mark, places where we go to make money, where we spend our days and yet on an evening, once man has left, nature takes over and in the right light all these places come alive and become beautiful in their own right.
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