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Documentary ProjectFinal Outcomes
Your final outcomes need to be based around one of the following stimuli:
- strangers- ‘my tribe’- faith- health- transport- role models- urbanisation
• Mind map of your ideas for your final concept. Need to include an explanation of what you are doing and why.
• Contact sheets annotated of each shoot. • Print best 4 images from each shoot A5 in your book and reflect on your
areas of development and your aims for the next shoot. FINAL DEADLINE: During One to One tutorials from 6th January Mock week.
In your sketchbook
Planning• Mind map of your ideas for your final concept. Need to include an
explanation of what you are doing and why.• Contact sheets annotated of each shoot. • Print best 4 images from each shoot A5 in your book and reflect
on your areas of development and your aims for the next shoot.
Artist Research• 800 words minimum • Analyse 4 images (use help sheet on moodle/blog) including
concept behind the body of work, technical, lighting and compositional analysis.
Strangers
Henri Cartier Bresson
Richard Avedon – In the American West
Nick Turpin
Nick Turpin
Katy Grannan
Beat Strueli - Bangkok 02
Jonathan Bielaski
‘my tribe’
• Family• friends• Personal possessions• home
Sophie CallThe Hotel series – go to
www.tate.org.uk
Jeff Harris
• http://www.jeffharris.org/ - takes a portrait of himself every day.
Alec Soth - Niagara
Richard Billingham
• Series of work: Rays a laugh
Nan Goldin Photographs her friends and family. A lot of her work is
about gender politics.
Taryn Simon - 'A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters'.
She has been photographing the descendents of 18 different bloodlines, each based around a particular situation, exploring predetermination and notions of perpetual return. There are many blank photographs for those who couldn’t be photographed.
Health
• Food• Mental health• Physical health• Sport• Exercise• Medication
Finlay Mckay
Timothy Archibald – sometimes I wonder
• photography was a way of connecting with his autistic son, Eli. Archibald says, “People jump to all sorts of desperate measures to feel like they’re doing something— a diet, a new medication, a special doctor…and this helped me feel like I was doing something.…We got to work as equals on something.”
Evi Numan
My work consists of portraits of people with medical disorders that are
invisible to the casual observer. I try to photograph the intangible
beauty that comes from the mental and physical suffering that often
plagues the human condition, but is rarely explored in an honest
manner. I’m interested in the painful and exhilarating experiences that
colour their lives of those suffering from mental and neurological
illness and I attempt to reveal them on the faces of my subjects. Using
the face as a map of psychological experience, I try to unveil the tell-
tale subtleties apparent in each individual’s physiognomy.
http://evinumen.com/section/67902_Portraits.html
David Stewart – Teenage Pre-occupation (2012)
Grandmothers best cooking by Gabriele Galimberti
Transport
A41 project by Colin McPherson
The project's images have been created by photographer and visual artist Colin McPherson with contributions from equality groups in the West Midlands, Merseyside, London and Milton Keynes. Colin explained: “Working on this project in tandem with The Equality Trust has allowed me to explore through my photography one of the most important social and political phenomenons of today. The images I have created are 'social landscapes,' photographs which simultaneously try to show the effects of our actions while asking questions about why inequality exists." Further exhibitions are planned in Milton Keynes, Birkenhead and London.
John Clang, Time
Nancy Honey
Lee Friedlander
Tom Wood
Henri Cartier Bresson
Faith
Andres Serrano
From series ‘The Church’ From series ‘Nomads’
Religion and Belief
Liz Hingley – Under Gods (book in the library)
Photographer Liz Hingley’s first image in her series ‘Under Gods: Stories from Soho Road’ depicts an unremarkable dual carriageway running north from Birmingham’s city centre.Under Gods, Soho Road, Liz Hingley, Birmingham
But for Hingley, who grew up there, this three-mile stretch of road is one of the most varied and fascinating corners of the country. It is a junction of diverse faith, where Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Jain, Christian and Sikh meet.
“Faith is exhibited in all the shops, shown off as symbols on hats and t-shirts, branded in tattoos,” says Hingley. “It is religion rather than race that now defines the local communities.”
role models
Annie Leibovitz - Pilgrimage• http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/sunday/annie-leibovitzs-pilgrimage.html?pagewanted=all
Cindy Sherman
Eva Stenram
Bettina von Zwehl
Urbanisation
Edward Burtynsky - Oil
Zed Nelson - Hackney
Richard Billingham - Zoo
John DaviesSeries of work: metropoli project 2000 – 2003. Includes images on Birmingham and other major UK cities.
http://www.johndavies.uk.com/
Bill Brandt
• A Night in London encompassed social events and strata, with staged scenes where necessary.
Charles Johnstone
• Thirty-four Basketball Courts.
Dan Dubowitz - WastelandsDan Dubowitz loves to travel the world in search of abandoned, decaying buildings
Stephen Shore – uncommon places