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‘We have all found something beautiful or intruiging by chance’-anna gerber

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IntroductionUnexpected outcomes is a project exploring the

uninterntional and chance outcomes that film photography

can offer. The project constisted of many different

experiments and in total ninteen films were used in order

to collate a substansial amount of material and investigate

different and unexpect outcomes which one may come

across when photographing in such a mindset.

This project aimed to explored and highlight the ways in

which chance can effect a process in a benefical way.

It aims to open up our minds to something fresh, new

and creative. Something we are not use to, photographs

which may not be in focous, may not be the colour we are

expecting to see or may look so damaged that some may

disregard and ignor. Rather than ignoring and disregaring

these images this project aimed to embrace them and

show that sometimes different is good.

The unpredictability and unexpected outcomes offered

when we work in such a way as to take ourselves out of

a process can offer much more dynamic and interesting

results than if we were to control that process.

If we choose to use a film camera in a playful and

experimental way rather than one frame per shoot we allow

and embrace exploration of converging lines within images.

We encounter an element of surprise, the unexpected.

Unaware of what may happen and what result will come

of it, this adventures approach allows you to capture

photographs of what isn't actually there. This allows

photographs to work much like our memory, melting and

converging lines of images together allowing for a tangible

image, a moving memory captured in one photograph.

We can explore chance by being creative with the

negative itself before development by investigating the

chemical reactions that occur when the film reacts with

heat and substances. Of course you choose the effect

which is applied and the time it is left to effect the negative

but inevitably you are out of the actual process. You

cannot control how the chemical will react and effect

the negative as each frame and each colour on the

negative will react differently. You are unaware of what has

happened to the film until it is developed.

Take yourself out of the process, stop thinking too much

about what you are taking a picture of, just shoot the multiple

exposures and endless panoramic, see what happens.

Inevitably you do control the process to some extent but

by not thinking too much about the composure of the

image can open up what you can achieve, it explores

possibilities of the unexpected and welcomes chance,

mistakes and accidents. This can end up working to

your advantage, answers and potential can be found in

something you didn’t mean to create.

Often something we initially see as a failure will offer us a

surreal, interesting and alternative answer. By letting go and

allowing an uncontrollable method of working it embraces

the chance of failure and an unexpected outcome.

Rather than seeking perfection and an ideal answer it

allows chance and the possibilities of something unplanned

to work to your advantage and offer a alternative answer.

The unexpected can sometimes be the most interesting,

embrace the unknown welcome misstakes.

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‘You learn something new

because you see something new

... and, by the way,I am not fixated on

making something new. I just love the journey

of learning

and exploring.’ -april greiman

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‘When something malfuncations, it doesn’t

necessarily mean that something is working against it,

but rather that something is working

in tandem with it to maxisize it’s

unforeseen potential.’ -anna gerber

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‘An accident conjoures up the chance principle in which all things,

situations, ideas are present simultaneously

and just ‘happen’ to juxtapose in an unusual or different way that you would

have expected.’ -april greiman

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‘Error and it’s emotions.

On the brink of error is a condition of fear. In the midst of error

is a state of folly and defeat.

Realizing you’ve made an error brings

shame and remorse. Or does it?’

-anne carson

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‘No matter how hard we

try to control the creative process,

it is inevitable that we encounter an element

of unpredictability - something unexpected.’

-april greiman

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‘The photograph becomes ‘surprising’ when we do not know why it has been taken’ -roland barthes

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process how it is done