Brief
Spend some time reviewing your personal reflection and your tutor feedback. Develop a series of carefully considered images that moves your idea forward. Hand in this series to your tutor together with a new reflective commentary setting out where you plan to go from here.
Assignment Images
Contact Sheets
Here are the contact sheets for each location:
Reflective Commentary
Following on from my first assignment and my feedback from my tutor. I have compiled a highly edited series of images for this assignment. I have continued using the same principle I used for my first assignment, but this time I explored further a field and visit more sites.
At each site, I explored and photographed anything that caught my attention. I wouldn’t say I had a specific agenda, I just took the pictures. I did keep to the method of taking images that were out of focus, overexposed, underexposed and from various angles. I believe this approach is working well, as I am able to show the inequality and imbalance through my images.
I organised the images together into files, I then went through them and narrowed down to a final 30 at each site. This would help me choose my final images. I decided to print the images out on 6x4s, similar to what I did after my first assignment. This allowed me to move the images around and try new combinations. This also allowed my to view the images, and take out the ones that don’t fit.
Here is a link to how I cut my images down: Cutting Down
For this assignment, I still have quite a few images which I will cut down in the future. But I want to keep them as options, in case I do decided to do a collage.
There a few artists who have influenced my choices and decisions so far. If you click on their names, it will take you to the in-depth post I have written about them and their work. I have explained briefly below how they have influenced me below.
I like her series as they hold a deeper more complex meaning. Her images have influenced me as I like her approach and style. Whilst our objectives are different, our methodology is similar. She is taking her journey as a feminist, I am taking a journey that many men have taken, but I am undertaking it as a woman. It is a spiritual journey as well.
Her image itself is quite banal, it is just a scene from a forest, it is not picturesque or what you would expect, but it works. I am incorporating banal scenes in my work and her image shows to me how a banal image can carry a deeper meaning. Especially since her work is dealing with feminism as well.
Berman has given me a chance to see how artists have tackled the challenge of photographing churches. It is a documentary style approach, a bit different form my approach but I feel her images have been of use to me. I like the positioning she has used, she has taken a low angle, which were I would like my images to go.
I feel his images have influenced my direction, as this is a similar scene I am photographing. It has been helpful, to see how he has approached this subject and how he has maintained the respect. His images are interesting, I do like his low position for figure one, I believe this is quite effective, something I am using in my work. Kikkas’ series Ansel has also inspired me to look into monochrome for my work. His images have an impressive grey tonal range, they are striking. I may try my images in black and white, I think this might be a good move for my project. Monochrome gives the images a timeless feel, coupled with the church landscape I think my images will become quite haunting an mysterious.
Kohls work is valuable to me as I can see how she has taken her images in the cemetery. Her images are quite dark, they are also in monochrome. Which, similar to Kikkas, gives him images a peaceful yet haunting feel.
Tutor Feedback
Here is a link to my tutor’s feedback for this assignment and also my comments and how I am responding to the feedback:
Assessment Criteria
Demonstration of technical and visual skills
I have carried on with the same theme in this assignment but have expanded the locations. I spent time at each trying various angles and views. I took a lot of images so I would have choice for my final series. My techniques are similar to assignment one, but I feel I have developed my methods slightly since then. I have carried on trying different compositions. My images are not perfect, but this is the effect I want. They are not ‘by the book’ images, as I hope to convey the uneven inequality between men and women.
Quality of outcome
When I first submitted this assignment, I was happy with how it had progressed, however on reflection I didn’t develop my work enough. I decided to visit more pilgrimage sites and photograph them. I kept experimenting with different views and techniques as I did in the previous assignment, but I hadn’t really put them together for assignment 2. I narrowed the images down to 16 from four sites, but they didn’t really come together or work together as a cohesive series. I simply took the images and hadn’t experimented or developed the series. Part of the was I wasn’t sure completely what I wanted to do, so thought it may have been best to get some more images first. I did have ideas but failed to implement them here.
Demonstration of creativity
I kept experimenting with different views and techniques which could represent the inequality and exclusion. Each site was different, so produced different views. I did research into various artists who used similar techniques.
Context
This assignment brings together four locations of the pilgrimage journey. This brings context to the work as it shows the journey from one site to another. In later assignments I hope to be able to link these sites further to create a cohesive series.
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