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.

"The sunday times magazine 50th anniversary"

I recently went to "The sunday times magazine 50th anniversary" held at the Saatchi gallery. It was an exhibition that showcased the work of world name photographers who have contributed to the Times magazine over the last 50 years. Many world name photographers work was involved, including David Bailey, Eve Arnold and many others. The exhibition itself was presented in a really interesting way the images were displayed on a light box some how so that they lit up. I think it worked really well and helped the variation of subject matters work better as a series because they light gave the images harmony.

Final images!!

These were the 3 images we chose to use. We needed a portrait, middle length and full length image and we thought that these three answered the brief and also had a lot of variety in style and composition so we thought that they worked well together. We also thought that the styling of the model and the clothes reflected the brand All Saints quite well.

Fashion shoot

We shot near our halls at night on this run down building we thought it gave out the right vibe and we thought in the darkness the  whole area had more  of a editorial feel.

2 week Fashion brief

We were given a two week fashion brief to day in a group in this session, we were told that we had to choose a brand of clothing and create a four peg editorial for a magazine of our choice. We were allowed to use post production on the shots and we had to involve some form of flash lighting either a semi manual flash, a studio range kit or a quadra kit. We were told to consider typography, layout, front page and a were also told we needed a mix of shots including a close up, a mid  and a full length shot.
We were told that we should all create roles within our group and make a digital mood board that reflected our ideas. We have decided as group to use the fashion range All Saints and use the magazine Nylon.We want to create a very dark gothic style to out images and make theme look quite grungy i think this will reflect the brands style quite well. We also want to photograph in a run down area. These are first thoughts.

Blog research

In this PPP session we discusses and furthered our knowledge on blogs. We looked at how blogs can be used in different styles and how important it is to use your own and also look at other peoples blogs. We looked at how their are different blogs for different uses. For example some blog sites are used to create an online diary such as blogger and tumbler.
We also were given some tips on how to make our blog interesting such as post inspiring and innovative thoughts,be regular blogger - blog often (oops!), find to what you are comfortable writing about and sharing with the public, some people feel more comfortable than others and be creative with you blog. If i am honest i haven't really enjoyed blogging so far, i have found it a bit boring. I never really liked writing diaries when i was younger and i think i see my blog as sort of online diary and haven't really enjoyed it so far. However at this PPP session we looked at other peoples blogs and i think i have been inspired to make my blog more interesting. Here are some of the blogs i liked ......

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www.creatingcinderella.com

run by Birmingham Royal ballet, i found it interesting because it showed another part of the art world which i do not normally look at and it has a really interesting layout and is a good example of how to advertise and event.

The other blog i was impressed by was Problogger, it is a blog that helps bloggers with the technical side of blogging, it also gives you useful tips on how to make your blog successful.