as of today [Nov 11] I have com pleated all 8 photos and they are being printed and mounted as we speak
I will post final photos as soon as I have faster internet.
>R
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Proposal two
After seeing everyones proposals last week Ive decided I needed to do something more "out there" and more true to my artistic side.
so I went back through my briefs and I became reacquainted with my displacement photo. [see below]
So I've decide to do negative and positive body image, useing the same lighting and the same "clinical" colour
so far I have done 2 shoots for this idea and have gotten a lot of feed back from the wider community for support of this idea, mainly about this photo...
here is just an example of the feed back
there is about 100 more comments and I've gotten a lot of emails and friend request about this photo alone.
the 2nd photo I have done is about the negative image some women get about the size of their beasts and the need for them to be a certain shape or size.
so I went back through my briefs and I became reacquainted with my displacement photo. [see below]
So I've decide to do negative and positive body image, useing the same lighting and the same "clinical" colour
so far I have done 2 shoots for this idea and have gotten a lot of feed back from the wider community for support of this idea, mainly about this photo...
here is just an example of the feed back
there is about 100 more comments and I've gotten a lot of emails and friend request about this photo alone.
the 2nd photo I have done is about the negative image some women get about the size of their beasts and the need for them to be a certain shape or size.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Praposal
For my folio I chose the music brief.
at this point in time Ive done around 4-5 shoots that I could use but Im also undecided of what direction I'm taking.
Im thinking that I will chose 8 different song but focus on certain lyrics in the song, or just the song name.
how will I tie these all together?
I really love black and white, and last folio I did was in colour so Im challenging myself to do it all black and white.
"Talk show host" Radiohead
"You want me?
well fucking well come and find me.
I'll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches."
at this point in time Ive done around 4-5 shoots that I could use but Im also undecided of what direction I'm taking.
Im thinking that I will chose 8 different song but focus on certain lyrics in the song, or just the song name.
how will I tie these all together?
I really love black and white, and last folio I did was in colour so Im challenging myself to do it all black and white.
"Talk show host" Radiohead
"You want me?
well fucking well come and find me.
I'll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches."
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Happy Little Australian Identity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0BvujonfWY&feature=related
Let me set the scene for you.
sitting in a dorm common room watching TV with the other dorm kids and the Vegemite ad comes on and everyone one starts to sing "we're happy little Vegemites as bright as bright can be..."
It made me think, wow.. we [Australians] tend to love our icons, even if its not continuously, we identify ourselves with our icons.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Jabberwocky
My concept is "the other side of the story" you need to look at it from the view point of "what if the jabberwocky that was killed had a family?".
Friday, August 13, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Placement & Displacement.
Placement
"devil may care" attitude.
Displacement
the constant over judgement of ones appearance.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Folio SEMESTER 2 lesson 1
Talked about the classes this year
slivia talked about her career as a photographer.
She took photos of land mine victims working for a French prosthesis. 1990-92
Using a hassleblad
95 she went to Somalia. Documenting more about mine victims
Photos were exhibited in Johannesburg and America.
She studied sculpture, painting, and photography.
She is interested in politics, identity and race.
She inserted a photo of African children running into the Canberra times, people called and complained that they didn’t understand what it meant, it was part of a larger art work that she did of rolled Canberra times newspapers attached to a wall with the same image as the front page.
She had her 1st child a daughter and did many photos around her experiences with her 1st child.
We will be doing an assignment on “identity”
slivia talked about her career as a photographer.
She took photos of land mine victims working for a French prosthesis. 1990-92
Using a hassleblad
95 she went to Somalia. Documenting more about mine victims
Photos were exhibited in Johannesburg and America.
She studied sculpture, painting, and photography.
She is interested in politics, identity and race.
She inserted a photo of African children running into the Canberra times, people called and complained that they didn’t understand what it meant, it was part of a larger art work that she did of rolled Canberra times newspapers attached to a wall with the same image as the front page.
She had her 1st child a daughter and did many photos around her experiences with her 1st child.
We will be doing an assignment on “identity”
Monday, March 15, 2010
Australian Female Photographer -Tamara Dean
Based in Sydney, Tamara Dean is a member of the Oculi photographic collective and currently works as a staff photographer for the Sydney Morning Herald. She has been a finalist in various photographic awards including the Moran Contemporary Photography Prize, the Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, the Head On Alternative Portrait Prize, the 5th Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award and the Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture. Tamara has also been awarded two artist residencies by the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in the remote historical gold-mining town of Hill End in NSW.
She has exhibited her work at the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP), the Museum of Sydney; Stills South and the Art Gallery of NSW. Tamara’s works are held in both public and private collections and she is represented by the Charles Hewitt Gallery in Sydney. More of Tamara’s work can be seen at www.oculi.com.au
She has exhibited her work at the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP), the Museum of Sydney; Stills South and the Art Gallery of NSW. Tamara’s works are held in both public and private collections and she is represented by the Charles Hewitt Gallery in Sydney. More of Tamara’s work can be seen at www.oculi.com.au
Monday, March 8, 2010
Portfolio Praposal
At this present point in time my main idea for my portfolio will be based around the inspiration I find in the painting of Mark Ryden [www.markryden.com]
"Rosie's Tea Party"
painting by Mark Ryden,On oil canvas, 2005
If you are unfamiliar with the work of Mark Ryden he is a man of mystery and somewhat a living legend in the world of contemporary art. Combining classic surrealism with pop culture oddities, his paintings show a childlike vulnerability with a dark twist, Themes such as butcher-bunnies, parades of raw meat and celebrity caricatures contribute to his world of twisted child-like fantasy and barbaric beauty; so imaginative and unique is Marks work that it’s hard to rope him to one gene. His art offers a commentary on the current state of pop culture in the US and even humanity itself.
I aim to created my own twisted childhood themes and deliver them in photographic form, I will aim to catch the viewers eye then give them enough detail to look closer and find “the twist” using pastel colours and soft lighting to show innocence next to deep reds of meat and decapitated toys.
I see most of them happening in a picnic garden scene with one blonde girl or possibly one blonde and one dark haired girl. Dressed in an “Alice in wonderland” style dress the blonde in pink and white and if I have a dark haired girl in green and white, sitting on a picnic blanket or having a tea party with meat, white rabbits and decapitated toys for company. Instead of tea I will use dark red food coloured water to give the illusion that they are drinking blood.
I want my photos to be unique and true to my style, I want to use some “shock value” to reach my audience, I want to be very recognisable and different from my other photography peers, I will also be using editing programs to gain the best result, but I prefer the natural light for outdoor work, I will use this year to grow and learn as much as I can to aid myself so that I can better my final portfolio.
I chose this “twisted childhood” perspective because I like making people second guess what they see, I don’t want my audience to walk away and mealy say “My word that was quite nice” then never think of it again, I want them to be shocked and taken-a-back, I want them to be drawn in and spend time with my work, I also like the way it shows that even in this sterile technology life we live now we are not perfect, that things are not as they seem, people forget that sometimes…well that’s what I think.
"Rosie's Tea Party"
painting by Mark Ryden,On oil canvas, 2005
If you are unfamiliar with the work of Mark Ryden he is a man of mystery and somewhat a living legend in the world of contemporary art. Combining classic surrealism with pop culture oddities, his paintings show a childlike vulnerability with a dark twist, Themes such as butcher-bunnies, parades of raw meat and celebrity caricatures contribute to his world of twisted child-like fantasy and barbaric beauty; so imaginative and unique is Marks work that it’s hard to rope him to one gene. His art offers a commentary on the current state of pop culture in the US and even humanity itself.
I aim to created my own twisted childhood themes and deliver them in photographic form, I will aim to catch the viewers eye then give them enough detail to look closer and find “the twist” using pastel colours and soft lighting to show innocence next to deep reds of meat and decapitated toys.
I see most of them happening in a picnic garden scene with one blonde girl or possibly one blonde and one dark haired girl. Dressed in an “Alice in wonderland” style dress the blonde in pink and white and if I have a dark haired girl in green and white, sitting on a picnic blanket or having a tea party with meat, white rabbits and decapitated toys for company. Instead of tea I will use dark red food coloured water to give the illusion that they are drinking blood.
I want my photos to be unique and true to my style, I want to use some “shock value” to reach my audience, I want to be very recognisable and different from my other photography peers, I will also be using editing programs to gain the best result, but I prefer the natural light for outdoor work, I will use this year to grow and learn as much as I can to aid myself so that I can better my final portfolio.
I chose this “twisted childhood” perspective because I like making people second guess what they see, I don’t want my audience to walk away and mealy say “My word that was quite nice” then never think of it again, I want them to be shocked and taken-a-back, I want them to be drawn in and spend time with my work, I also like the way it shows that even in this sterile technology life we live now we are not perfect, that things are not as they seem, people forget that sometimes…well that’s what I think.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Sam Haskins
Above: Sam Haskins
Sam Haskins, born Samuel Joseph Haskins (born November 11, 1926, died November 26, 2009), was a photographer best known for his contribution to nude photography, pre-Photoshop in-camera image montage, and his books, the most influential of which were Cowboy Kate (1965) and Haskins Posters (1973). From 2000 to 2005 he has focused on fashion photography for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Allure and New York.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Haskins
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