Brief: Telling a story in stills A date for your diary: December 27th “If I could tell the story in words I wouldn’t lug a camera” – Lewis Hind Building on the disciplines already developed, working with analogue technologies in 150MC, over the next term, 151MC will be looking at developing a creative digital practice, supported…
Once I have my mind set on a certain project, I persevere until I get the outcome that I pre-visualised at the start of the project. I feel my overall photographs and information that I gained throughout my project relates highly to the brief. I chose not to take photographs of specific stereotypes as I feel this…
As previously mention, I have decided to make my own Japanese stab binding photo book. To do this I needed: 11 Sheets of A4 plain white card (not too thick) 2 Sheets of A4 black card – this will be for the front and back cover. Thread – I chose black thread Needle Ruler Pencil…
Now I have finished all of my prints I am going to go back to what my idea was. I wanted to photograph a variety of strangers in which I would ask them a few questions related to my project. I am now going to talk about each of my photographs and include the information…
Today was the day when I would succeed in the darkroom and produce some higher quality prints than my past attempts. I have decided to only show the test strips in this post, as I want to do a separate post for my finals. First Print: This was the print I had most hassle with last time,…
So I arrive in the darkroom for the second day of printing and luckily I got my same enlarger and it was still set up in the same way. This made it a lot easier for me to get straight into printing. My first print was the one below in which I had my enlarger…
I have used the darkroom before when at college, however I have only done two darkroom based projects. So I found myself rather enthusiastic when going back into the traditional forms of photography. However I made a mistake straight away when it came to printing on the paper. I had spare paper (Ilford 10×8 in…
In America especially, they have big group stereotypes in which I am going to talk about each one and show some photographs related to that stereotype. Geek Stereotype: Definition: ‘A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.’ ‘ A boring and unattractive social misfit.’…
Alex Majoli is an Italian photographer who became a member of Magnum Photos in 2001. He is mainly known for his documentary work of War and Conflict. However the work I have came across lately I found rather unique and interesting. I also felt this specific piece of work I could slightly relate to my…
Whilst working on this project we had a lecture to help us consider how we were going to present our final photographs. We were shown many ways to present such as mounting: This is where you a apply a foam board around your images this tends to be used inside frames and is more of…
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