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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

unintentional and chance outcomes that film

photography can offer. In order to unleash the possibilities

one must take themselves out of the process, stop

focussing on composure and actual outcome and allow

the camera to work in a playful experimental way. The

project consisted of many different experiments, in total

nineteen films were used which allowed me to collate a

substantial amount of material and to investigate many

different unexpected 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 beneficial way. It

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

creative and show the viewer something they are not

use to. This project consisted of photographs created

from the process of chance which lead to outcomes

which may not be in focus, may not be the colour we

are expecting to see and photographs that may look

so damaged that some may disregard and ignore all

together. However rather than ignoring and disregarding

these images this project aimed to embrace them and

show that unpredictability and the unexpected 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.

Sometimes something we may initially see as a failure can

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 mistakes.

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UnexpectedIf 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.

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‘Chance doesn’t recognise boundaries; whatever activity you

are engaged in, be it art, science,

gambling or daily life, you cant cut it out

of the equation.’ -Henry Krokatsis

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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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‘Anyone who has never made a mistake has

never tried anything new.’ -albert einstein

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‘‘An essential aspect of creativity

is not being afraid to fail.’ -isaac newton

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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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