Roger Ballen "Shadow Land"

We went to an exhibition in Manchester to look at an exhibition of Roger Ballen, a photographer who's worked is based in South Africa and is looking at the poverty in the country an how the politics of the country effect the people. The work was very intimate to the people he was taking pictures of. I think there were some key themes in the work which i think he was very interested in such as birds and wire, i think the way he repeated these themes it allowed the images to become an effective exhibition series. 

  

Critical Studies

For our critical studies we had to create four images that resembled another photographers list. I chose to depict Andreas Gurkskey. I wanted to reflect his work because it is a style that i have never experimented with and i have become more interested in his work since researching many of the Becher's students. I think my image does reflect his work quite well because it has the same obsessive order of his work.

Hockney

I recently went to the Hockney exhibition at the Royal Academy . It was a retrospective of a large amount of his Yorkshire based work. It was inspiring exhibition to go to because of the amount of work being displayed. Hockney has produced so much work through out his career it is unbelievable. He paints a painting almost everyday he can and experiments with colour. His use of colour is innovative and so unique to him and makes his paintings of the Yorkshire stand out from other landscapes.

Mauren Broadbeck

I have researching for my digital imaging project and have been looking for images that involve graphics some how into a photo in a very obvious way. I was in library and came across the work of Mauren Broadbeck and found her work really interesting.
 She involves a lot of block colour into her work and makes every day cityscapes into something unique with a futuristic feel to it

Vices and Virtues

This is one of my final images for my Vices and Virtues project. I created three images that depicted objects that involved in fairy tales and reflect good and bad. I chose the apple because it is often used to reflect the forbidden. I think i like this image the best because i like the symmetry of it and how the apples are so shiny they almost look magical.

Mark Power "The sound of Two songs"

We went to Bradford "Impressions photography gallery"to see Mark Power's "The sound of Two Songs" series. The series is based in Poland and is a photographic survey of the country since 2004. This project began for Power when Magnum commissioned him to document Poland jointing the E.U. Power became so attached to the country he privately continued with the project and lead in a slightly different direction, resulting in the images being a poetic and an autobiogrpahical response to the country. I think the images were highly charged and also i think it is refreshing to see a document on a country that is positive and celebrating it and it's beauty and it's imperfections.

Ulrika Kestere

We were given a brief called 'Vices and Virtues" and i decided to do mine on fairy tales. I was researching photographers who use or are inspired by fairy tales for their work and Kestere's work came up. She is not just a photographer but also an illustrator and often she makes up her own stories and interpets them via photographs. I really like her style and how she creates a narrative in her images. I also think she creates fantasy into her images in a really unique way.