White Paper- Abstraction
For this task I was given a white piece of plain paper, I was not allowed to cut or tear the paper. The only thing I was allowed to was fold it, roll it or crumple the piece of paper. I had to capture photographs in an abstract way using light, filters and mirrors.
WWW: I think I was successful in how I captured the light especially under the red light. with experimenting with this task I found out that being aware of shadows in the photograph can help to add the element of ads tact to the image.
EBI: if I got the chance to experiment more with using reflection as a way to create abstraction. also some of my images showed the background which I did not want but had to compromise due to the angle that i wanted to photograph the paper.
WWW: I think I was successful in how I captured the light especially under the red light. with experimenting with this task I found out that being aware of shadows in the photograph can help to add the element of ads tact to the image.
EBI: if I got the chance to experiment more with using reflection as a way to create abstraction. also some of my images showed the background which I did not want but had to compromise due to the angle that i wanted to photograph the paper.
Camden Market
Across London different markets open on a daily basis all are unique and sell a variety of different things. I chose to go to Camden Market, this market his the biggest variety of things that are sold. I went out to photograph what the market sold and the people that sold them.
Chemigrams
This process was discovered by Pierre Cordier on November 10,1956. When the photographic paper is put into the developer and fixer a resist can hold back the chemical effects. When the paper is put into a developer in a normal room light for a while the paper will turn black. However the parts of the paper that are covered by the resist, will block the chemical reaction.
For these Chemigram I used honey, oil and nivea as resistant. after i put those products on the photographic paper i then dip then into a developer, fix and water and finally water with soap. The intention of this was to clean off any of the product from the photographic paper.
For these Chemigram I used honey, oil and nivea as resistant. after i put those products on the photographic paper i then dip then into a developer, fix and water and finally water with soap. The intention of this was to clean off any of the product from the photographic paper.
cyanotypes
Cyanotype was invented by the astronomer and chemist john Frederick William Herschel.
The Process: The cyanotype emulsion is sensitive to ultraviolet light. By placing an inverted image on acetate or objects on the paper. You sandwich the paper with a piece of glass. Depending on how strong the source of natural sunlight will be will depend on the exposure time.
For my Cyanotype I used tracing paper and I drew little worm like lines on the paper. I also used blank pieces of white paper to create the squares on the cyanotype.
The Process: The cyanotype emulsion is sensitive to ultraviolet light. By placing an inverted image on acetate or objects on the paper. You sandwich the paper with a piece of glass. Depending on how strong the source of natural sunlight will be will depend on the exposure time.
For my Cyanotype I used tracing paper and I drew little worm like lines on the paper. I also used blank pieces of white paper to create the squares on the cyanotype.
Responding to an Artist
For this task art students had create chemigrams, we were asked to response to there piece. When I first saw the image I was drawn to the bubbles like prints on the right hand side of the image. Therefore for my response I wanted to reposnse to that small part of the image instead of reponsing to it as a whole. The images below are my response.
A Journey on the London underground
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During the summer i decided to document a journey on the London Underground. Here I went to 4 differnet stations: waterloo, Mooragate, east finchely and cannon street. i also took pictures of hte stations that I passed while on the tube. Below are my finals edits for this series. One thing that i liked about these set of images is the dsievse people i capture on the tube. i also liked the somposition of a few of the images. However one thing that could improve was the fact that shooting in the stations there is a limit to lighting.
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Exhibition- Media network
Here I went to the Tate morden. While I was there I visited three different exhibtion. There first one is about media network, it "Looks at some of the ways in which artists over the past hundred years have responded to the impact of mass media and the ever-changing technologies that shape our world." Below are two artists that I felt stood out in teh exhibtion.
ANDY WARHOL
Warhol started his career as a commercial illustrator. This piece is called Marilyn Diptych. The subject in the image, Marilyn monroe died from a drug overdose in 1962 at the age of 36. In this piece Warhol chose a still from a film she stared in, in 1953. The Marilyn Diptych is made out of two silver canvases, it contains fifty times. the work resemmbles the work of religous saints painting. The siginficance of this is that Warhol invites the viewer to worship the icon. the piece is made into two differnt sections these are reffering to Marilyn life and ldeaths and the lengnedary icon she left the world with.
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THE GUERRILLA GIRLS
The Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of American radical feminist. The female artists are devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the artworld. The group came together in New York City in 1985 with the mission of bringing gender and racial inequality into focus within the arts community. The members of the group are known for the gorilla mask they wear to remain anonymous. they wear these mask in order to conceal their identity from the public to avoid backlash from individuals another reason they hid is explained in there interview, "...mainly, we wanted the focus to be on the issues, not on our personalities or our own work."Guerrilla Girls used fly posters and stickers to express their options. They mixed hard hitting statics and humour. They did not just simply present their opinion and let people interpret themselves. They made people think.
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Exhibitions - Artist and Society
Lorna Simpson
Five Day Forecast 1991
This project was simpson commenting on her experience of office work in the 1980s and the racism and sexism she received in her work place. This series look at "the events of what could happen in a week". The image themselves lack the identify of a person and therefore generalise, making her intention of that fact that women face discrimination in the workplace. The individual identify is taken by replacing the head with the days of the week. The images remove the person humanity like the workplace removed the photographer. The folded arms are suggesting protection against sexism and racism, the posture its self appears to be guarded and defiant. The words underneath the images are breakdowns of mis communication held within the workplace to both a personal, racial and professional level.
This project was simpson commenting on her experience of office work in the 1980s and the racism and sexism she received in her work place. This series look at "the events of what could happen in a week". The image themselves lack the identify of a person and therefore generalise, making her intention of that fact that women face discrimination in the workplace. The individual identify is taken by replacing the head with the days of the week. The images remove the person humanity like the workplace removed the photographer. The folded arms are suggesting protection against sexism and racism, the posture its self appears to be guarded and defiant. The words underneath the images are breakdowns of mis communication held within the workplace to both a personal, racial and professional level.
Exhibitions - Materials and objects
Sheela Gowda
This installation done by Gowda is constructed out of two things one steel car bumper and knotted human hair. There is currently 400o metre of braided and knotted hair. It came from Indian pilgrims who fulfilled vows and donated it to a local temple as a sign of devotion. The temple sells short hair that is braided, people put it in their cars to warm off accident from happening. Long hair are made into wigs. Behold was hand made by the artist. The bumpers make a reference to the huge increase of car in India as a new car is a sign of success.
Niki de Saint Phalle
This image is called "shooting picture" and was created in 1961. Phalle is a french born artist. She constructed this by using polythene bags filled with paint and then she cover over these in white plaster. Phalle then took the blank piece of artwork into an gallery in Paris where she invited audience member to shoot at the picture with a point 22 rifle. As the bullets passed through the work it exposed "in a dramatic way of revealing a painting". The artist gave up her control as an artist, she left the outcome of the final product to chance.
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The Brief -- Just Existing in London
I would like for the brief to not be that specific as then I can expand and edit how i capture "existing in london". On making the brief I want to capture people in london when they go about their madame lives.
For this development I went out to London City. I wanted to photograph the architecture in London and how it impacts the City's atmosphere. I wanted to show how the buildings make London and how the old architecture compare to the new growing london.
www: In this development I put old film filters on top of the edited images. I really like this as it enhanced the old architecture that London holds. The new parts of London the filters made them look more surreal as it looks out of place.
EBI: For this development i went out to capture the architecture. I felt that I didn't get much of a variety of buildings and places. if i were to do this again i would stay out longer and go to at least two different place.
Next Development: For my next development I will look at the people of London and how they just exist. I want to capture their Madame life. I got the inspiration from 'IMG_9110' that I took, it is just of a man working. This just lead me to think that most people who do not live in London only know about people who are important and not the simple everyday Londoner. This got me thinking that I would go out and photograph everyday Londoner in their daily activities.
www: In this development I put old film filters on top of the edited images. I really like this as it enhanced the old architecture that London holds. The new parts of London the filters made them look more surreal as it looks out of place.
EBI: For this development i went out to capture the architecture. I felt that I didn't get much of a variety of buildings and places. if i were to do this again i would stay out longer and go to at least two different place.
Next Development: For my next development I will look at the people of London and how they just exist. I want to capture their Madame life. I got the inspiration from 'IMG_9110' that I took, it is just of a man working. This just lead me to think that most people who do not live in London only know about people who are important and not the simple everyday Londoner. This got me thinking that I would go out and photograph everyday Londoner in their daily activities.
Second Development
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For this development I went to wood green. It has a wide variety of people from different backgrounds. I went out with a 75-300mm lens, this meant that from a distance I could still get close enough to photograph them. This was exactly what I wanted because I did not want the subject to notice their photo was being taken.
www: What I liked from getting close up of people is their facial expression. the subject were either messing with what they wore or they were thinking about something. however the fact that they did not have conscious knowledge of what their facial expression was, this added to the effect of how they exist in london and what they feel are feeling is genuine on how London impacts them. EBI: When I went to photograph it was dark out. This meant that even though I had a high ISO I needed a long shutter speed. As I went without a tripod as I thought this would draw attention to me taking photos, either my image would come out blurry or dark. Next time I will make sure to go when its light out to make sure I can avoid using a tripod but still get successful images. |
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Three development
For this development I captured my local area, Muswell Hill. I went out with two intentions. First was to take images like the ones from my last development. My second intention was to take photo of people through something, whether that may be a window of some sort. while I was taking these photos I realise that I got series of photos that had the same person just going about their life. I put these images together and put a border around them. What I liked about these series of images is that instead of seeing one moment of a person's life in one photo, the series of images allow the viewer to see a section of how they live their daily life.
I will break down my final edits into three sections: 1. images of people through a window.
2. the series of images of people
3. single shot of people
www: This development has been really successful in terms of getting ideas of how to further develop this project. I like the idea of capturing moments of someones through multiple images rather than just one.
EBI: I wanted to get more images of people on the bus. however this was made difficult as some times the bus was not packed with people and they did not stop at the bus stop.
I will break down my final edits into three sections: 1. images of people through a window.
2. the series of images of people
3. single shot of people
www: This development has been really successful in terms of getting ideas of how to further develop this project. I like the idea of capturing moments of someones through multiple images rather than just one.
EBI: I wanted to get more images of people on the bus. however this was made difficult as some times the bus was not packed with people and they did not stop at the bus stop.
Inspired by Saul Liether
Fourth Development
Here I photographed the southbank and how people exist there. my intentions for this development was to capture diverse people that I would be passing by in southbank that day. The reason why I chose to go to the southbank was because I thought there would be so many diverse people from tourist to locals. I also wanted to go because It would be a busy location, this would mean that i could make one person the focal point and still have other people in the background.
www: One thing that was successful about this development was that I managed to take images of diverse group of people. In some images I like the way I used natrual lighting to higlight certain people.
EBI: Some of my composition of the images are not that great where i cut out some of the person or the angle was not right. Another thing that i did not like was the fact that it was central, where people were there for a reason and they weren't just living about their everyday routined life, they were there with purpose. in my photographs i want to focus more their everyday routine rather than they going somewhere to visit.
www: One thing that was successful about this development was that I managed to take images of diverse group of people. In some images I like the way I used natrual lighting to higlight certain people.
EBI: Some of my composition of the images are not that great where i cut out some of the person or the angle was not right. Another thing that i did not like was the fact that it was central, where people were there for a reason and they weren't just living about their everyday routined life, they were there with purpose. in my photographs i want to focus more their everyday routine rather than they going somewhere to visit.
Fifth Development
For this development I went out to Green park. As my breif is to capture people in London I wanted to go to a place that is iconic for london, I choose a park as it is a location I have not photograph yet and people are doing different activites that they would not do just by walking down the street. i choose this park as it is one of the most famous ones in London.
Green park was first recorded in 1554, it was the place where a rebellion happened against the marriage of Mary I too Philip II of Spain. Until 1667 it was a famous place for Duelling. When England had a new King Charles II in 1668 he wanted to be able to walk from Hype Park all the way to St James's without having to leave royal soil. Therefore he brought Green Park as it was prefectly placed between the other two parks. he built a brick wall around it and placed deer and a ranger's house and eventually called it Upper St James's Park. In 1746, Upper St James's was officially renamed The Green Park. this may be because, at the time, the park was an open meadow with a few trees. however it may also e because of a tale about King Charles II and his Wife. Apparently, she discovered that Charles had picked up flowers in the park and gave it to another woman. in revenge, the Queen demanded that every single flower be picked and destroyed and no more were to be planted. there are still no formal flowerbeds in The Green Park. During the 18th Century the park had become more pleasure with new building built there like The Tyburn pool and a reservoir was made. Unfortunately, The Ranger's Lodge, the Queen's Library, the Queen's Basin and the Tyburn Pool had all been demolished by 1855.
Green park was first recorded in 1554, it was the place where a rebellion happened against the marriage of Mary I too Philip II of Spain. Until 1667 it was a famous place for Duelling. When England had a new King Charles II in 1668 he wanted to be able to walk from Hype Park all the way to St James's without having to leave royal soil. Therefore he brought Green Park as it was prefectly placed between the other two parks. he built a brick wall around it and placed deer and a ranger's house and eventually called it Upper St James's Park. In 1746, Upper St James's was officially renamed The Green Park. this may be because, at the time, the park was an open meadow with a few trees. however it may also e because of a tale about King Charles II and his Wife. Apparently, she discovered that Charles had picked up flowers in the park and gave it to another woman. in revenge, the Queen demanded that every single flower be picked and destroyed and no more were to be planted. there are still no formal flowerbeds in The Green Park. During the 18th Century the park had become more pleasure with new building built there like The Tyburn pool and a reservoir was made. Unfortunately, The Ranger's Lodge, the Queen's Library, the Queen's Basin and the Tyburn Pool had all been demolished by 1855.
edits
Sixth development
For this development I went to Trafalgar Square. I chose to go here as it was a Saturday and therefore would be extremely busy. I knew i would get a variety of different people as there are both tourist and Londoners visiting there. I felt that these set of images were very successful. I was pleased with the final edited images as they fitted my intention for this development. There were no problems with light as it was a bright day making the exposure prefect. When traveling there I thought i would not be able to capture people in their thoughts as I thought people would venture there in groups. However even in groups each person had there moment where they won't really present in the environment they were in.
I would like to change up how I capture people in their thoughts as I have been doing similar images for a few developments now. For the pervious development I was focused on capturing stills of people. Next I want to explore the idea of surveillance as I have focused on just capturing snips of people in their thoughts, next I want to capture them in transport in their own bubble.
I would like to change up how I capture people in their thoughts as I have been doing similar images for a few developments now. For the pervious development I was focused on capturing stills of people. Next I want to explore the idea of surveillance as I have focused on just capturing snips of people in their thoughts, next I want to capture them in transport in their own bubble.
Seventh Development
For this development I went out with the idea of surveillance. I want to experiment with not only capturing a single image of a person existing in their bubble in London, this time I had the intentions to capture a short moment of how they act when lost in their thought. the best way i felt that i could capture those moments were on public transport, for this development I used the bus.
In this development I liked the fact of the closeness that I have with the person. The best videos are the ones that i am sitting opposite to the person. There were quite a few things that i could improve for the next development. One being the fact that some of the shots are far away (mostly the "bus person 2" and " bus person 1") this made it harder to pick up small details of peoples faces. Another thing that annoyed me was the shaking of the bus. There is much I can do to prevent this as the floor of the bus moves and also bring a tripod would just draw attention and people would become self-conscious. The next development I plan to film on the tube as the seats are opposite each making it easier to film the person opposite.
In this development I liked the fact of the closeness that I have with the person. The best videos are the ones that i am sitting opposite to the person. There were quite a few things that i could improve for the next development. One being the fact that some of the shots are far away (mostly the "bus person 2" and " bus person 1") this made it harder to pick up small details of peoples faces. Another thing that annoyed me was the shaking of the bus. There is much I can do to prevent this as the floor of the bus moves and also bring a tripod would just draw attention and people would become self-conscious. The next development I plan to film on the tube as the seats are opposite each making it easier to film the person opposite.
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Eighth Development
On this development I looked at different angles on the tube. I went from Highgate station on the northern line all the way into embankment. Here I filmed people sitting opposite me on the tube. I also experimented with filming while standing up and while walking around in the stations. the one downfall to filming while i was walking was that I kept shaking the camera. I really liked the way the videos look when everything is been played at the same time as it feel like the atmosphere in the tube, where there are so many things to look at. If I am to carry this on for the film piece I would like videos of people and play them all at the same time to bring together people who i have come across at different times and put them all together.
For my next development I will look at how sectioning different parts off from the same person body. I would want a video of their hands and then another one of their heads. so again still have them playing at the same time.
For my next development I will look at how sectioning different parts off from the same person body. I would want a video of their hands and then another one of their heads. so again still have them playing at the same time.
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Ninth Development
For this development I go on the tube at turnpike lane on the Piccadilly line all the way to highgate station on the northern line. My intention for this development was to film different parts of the person e.g. their hands and feet. I wanted to put the videos next to each other so that each video had a certain part to it. I really like the way a person is section off and letting the view focus on certain parts of them. As i did not want to draw attention to my camera i could not see what setting that my camera was on, this meant that some of the frames began out of focus. for the next development i need to be aware of this and make sure i do something to change so i do not have this problem again.
For the next development, I want to go away from the idea of surrvalice and back to still moment of poeple interaction with the city. For the next development i want to use the work of Titarenko as inspiration as i like the idea of sea of people. As I have been isolating each person alone I want to capture how poeple interact with each other while being in their isolated thoughts. I still want to keep photographing the tube as here are one of the point where being are mostly isolated with their thoughts.
For the next development, I want to go away from the idea of surrvalice and back to still moment of poeple interaction with the city. For the next development i want to use the work of Titarenko as inspiration as i like the idea of sea of people. As I have been isolating each person alone I want to capture how poeple interact with each other while being in their isolated thoughts. I still want to keep photographing the tube as here are one of the point where being are mostly isolated with their thoughts.
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Tenth Development
For this development I want to Earls Court station on the District line. I experimented with a long exposure to capture people movement in the stations. Here I got inspiration from Titarenko work "city of shadows'. My intention for this development was to now slow down the movement of people. I went away from the surveillance idea of looking at people on the tube. I now wanted to capture people as a collective rather than just focus on the individual in front of me.
A few of the images came out very successful. especially the ones that have a lot of people passing by and getting of the train. When i got to the station as it was outside and mostly made out of glass windows it was very bright. However this meant that i had to use a very samll iso as my shutter speed had to be long inorder to achieve the long expoure technique. Sadly it was still very bright so i could not use that much of a long shutter speed. This meant that I could not completely achieve the technique of have the idea of a sea of people.
For next development I will go to a station where it is not outside i am thinking of waterloo as it is a very busy station. Another benefit of this station is that i can get different train lines passing in that station to see if it makes any difference.
A few of the images came out very successful. especially the ones that have a lot of people passing by and getting of the train. When i got to the station as it was outside and mostly made out of glass windows it was very bright. However this meant that i had to use a very samll iso as my shutter speed had to be long inorder to achieve the long expoure technique. Sadly it was still very bright so i could not use that much of a long shutter speed. This meant that I could not completely achieve the technique of have the idea of a sea of people.
For next development I will go to a station where it is not outside i am thinking of waterloo as it is a very busy station. Another benefit of this station is that i can get different train lines passing in that station to see if it makes any difference.
Inspired by Alexey Titarenko
Alexey Viktorovich Titarenko is a Russian photographer and artist. He was born on 25 November 1963 Age 53, Leningrad. In 1977-1978 he studied photojournalism and photography at the public university of Society-Related Professions, Leningrad.The series "City of Shadows" is where I drew inspiration from for this development. This series is all about capturing the transition of a once oppressed Russia under the power of the communist state. Titarenko placed his camera outside the Vasiliesvostroskaia train station,which was the only public transport open at the time. The mass of crowds looked like a faceless human sea. Titarenko describes being at the station as creating the same response when "he heard the musical compositions, Shostakovich's 13 symphony" . The artist chose to print the image onto Gelatin silver print, this makes the print rich in silvery grey colours enhancing the surreal and muted tones of the city at the time. Titarenko is known for being one of the first to introduce long exposure into street photography. The “City of Shadows” explores Titarenko idea of ghostlike figures existing in a city that has lost it’s identity.
Eleventh Development
For this development I expanded on the periouvs development. I want to Waterloo station and photographed the jubilee line. I choose this because the station is fairly open and has a lot of space therefore I would not be disturbing the public in a busy station. I also choose this station as it busy so I could get the trait of people walking. One thing that was successful was the fact that the station was always busy therefore there was a lot of opportunity to capture the image i wanted. Another thing was that i set out capture different angles and i felt that i did this successfully. As the Tube station are quite dark it was hard to get the prefect setting of light. There was also the fact that most people only had 1 to 2 minutes to talk about their tube was about to arrive. This meant that I did not have enough time to talk to them and get a prefect photo.
In the previous lesson I had talked to my peers and they drew attention to a photographer who also interested in capturing people. However he captured people in his City and was followed by a quote from that person that gave the viewer an insight to their life. The photographer Brandon Stanton and his project Humans of New York. Towards the ended of me taking picture for this development, I decided to try this method out and ask people waiting for the tube about their story and photographer them. One thing that I like was the idea of knowing a bit of the persons story. As there are so many people in London that are strangers and people generally make assumptions of a person that they see around and it most likely is not true. One disadvantage of doing this is that most people only had 1 to 2 minutes to talk about their tube was about to arrive. This meant that I did not have enough time to talk to them and get a prefect photo.
Overall I would say this development was successful. For the next development I want to look at the Humans of New York and go away from the Titarenko inspired work.
In the previous lesson I had talked to my peers and they drew attention to a photographer who also interested in capturing people. However he captured people in his City and was followed by a quote from that person that gave the viewer an insight to their life. The photographer Brandon Stanton and his project Humans of New York. Towards the ended of me taking picture for this development, I decided to try this method out and ask people waiting for the tube about their story and photographer them. One thing that I like was the idea of knowing a bit of the persons story. As there are so many people in London that are strangers and people generally make assumptions of a person that they see around and it most likely is not true. One disadvantage of doing this is that most people only had 1 to 2 minutes to talk about their tube was about to arrive. This meant that I did not have enough time to talk to them and get a prefect photo.
Overall I would say this development was successful. For the next development I want to look at the Humans of New York and go away from the Titarenko inspired work.
Edits:
Twelfth Development
For this development I went out to govern garden and king cross. My intention for this was to take pictures of diverse people and getting a bit of their life and their views on things. I asked them a series of question: What is your new year resolution?. What quote do you live by?. what is your strongest element you have?.
After I had taken the photo of them I would ask them one of those question or all of them if they weren't busy. I wrote what they said down on the notes on my phone. I wanted to create a book like 'Humans of New York', I would have a photo of them along side their quote underneath. I felt that this was successful as I gain numerous of images of diverse people. However some of the images could have had a better composition and the exposure of them image. as it was a bright day some of the images became overly exposure. When editing the images i had to use the 'Burn tool' to darken the parts of the image that was over exposed.
After I had taken the photo of them I would ask them one of those question or all of them if they weren't busy. I wrote what they said down on the notes on my phone. I wanted to create a book like 'Humans of New York', I would have a photo of them along side their quote underneath. I felt that this was successful as I gain numerous of images of diverse people. However some of the images could have had a better composition and the exposure of them image. as it was a bright day some of the images became overly exposure. When editing the images i had to use the 'Burn tool' to darken the parts of the image that was over exposed.
Final piece:
This was my final piece for the mock. I put all the photos I edited in a book that i created on Photobox. When constructing the book i focused on pairing people together by what they look like in order to accomplished a aesthetically pleasing book. I felt this was successful as the final product looked and fitted with my intention. The only thing that I do not like about it is that It is too similar to the artists, Brandon Stanton. To further develop this I want to start looking at how people judge people on the street. I want to explore peoples first impression of others.
Inspired by Brandon Stanton
Stanton was born on March 1, 1984 in Georgia, USA. He is best known for his series, 'Human of New York' and as one of Time's "30 Under 30 People Changing The World". He studied History at the University of Georgia. He started this series in November 2010. Stanton began just taking pictures of people but soon began to start interviewing them and adding section of their lives online. He finds that stories that are from someone lives are the ones that are more meaningful, they tend to involve a powerful emotion such as fear or anger. He is drawn to people that he finds are easy to talk, he is fascinated by the ones that are so willing to share their moments in their life whether it is a cheerful moment or a deep struggle. He first starts off by taking the photo of the person and after he puts his camera way and begins a conversation with them. He does not just look for a quote that will fit the photo, as he believes it is more about the how the subject will fit with their story. The series started off with Stanton just posting on his private account on Facebook. As the project got more popular he released a photographer book in 2013, 3 years after he started the project. I am inspired by his work as i like the fact that he doesn't just present the images by themselves and lets the viewer make up the story of the subjects lives. He stops and interacts with the person and includes their stories that can be as unique as the person itself with the photograph.
Thirteenth Development
For this development I wanted to carry on with idea of how people make judgements of strangers on the street. with the images that i took in the last development i placed them in the middle of a piece of paper with the quotes i got from the person. I asked 7 different people to write a word down to answer my questions about what they first thought.
I asked them: 1. what do you think they work as?
2. what do you reckon their personality will be like?
3. where are they from?
4. what do you thinking of what they are wearing?
5. why do you think i photograph them?
After they answered the question, I scanned in the paper and on photoshop in their quote. I felt like this was successful as it shows the judgements that people hold against one another. As I also had the film, i felt that in the film people said more things without thinking whereas with the question people stop and thought about it and they could also see other peoples answers. Another interesting thing that i noticed while doing this was that older people generally answered much faster than the younger people. For my next development I would want to get a wider age group to answer the question or write down their first impression of each person.
I asked them: 1. what do you think they work as?
2. what do you reckon their personality will be like?
3. where are they from?
4. what do you thinking of what they are wearing?
5. why do you think i photograph them?
After they answered the question, I scanned in the paper and on photoshop in their quote. I felt like this was successful as it shows the judgements that people hold against one another. As I also had the film, i felt that in the film people said more things without thinking whereas with the question people stop and thought about it and they could also see other peoples answers. Another interesting thing that i noticed while doing this was that older people generally answered much faster than the younger people. For my next development I would want to get a wider age group to answer the question or write down their first impression of each person.
Fourth Development
For this development I want down to Cornwall, St Mawes and took images of the locals there. I wanted them to write on the images of the people from London and then take back the images of people in Cornwall so that people in London can write about their first impression. However when I want and asked the people in Cornwall to write on the images they did not want but agreed to have their photos taken. Below are the images that I took and their final edited version. one thing that went well was the images were exactly what i wanted. Their was no issues with lighting as it was bright day. The only thing that Could of went better is if poeple wanted to write on the images.
I choose to go down to cornwall as i wanted to create a juxfpicatioin of how different people are judge on based on where they are and how they look. I wanted for my final piece for people in Cornwall to judge the images of people in London with the knowlegde that it was London. A stereotype of Cornwall is that they aren't very diverse and Ichoose diverse people that a cornish person does not see every day in their town.
My next development will be my final piece where i will display both the images of people from Cornwall and London. On top of the images there will be a piece of acete which I will ask people in London streets whether they can write down their first impressions of people in the images.
I choose to go down to cornwall as i wanted to create a juxfpicatioin of how different people are judge on based on where they are and how they look. I wanted for my final piece for people in Cornwall to judge the images of people in London with the knowlegde that it was London. A stereotype of Cornwall is that they aren't very diverse and Ichoose diverse people that a cornish person does not see every day in their town.
My next development will be my final piece where i will display both the images of people from Cornwall and London. On top of the images there will be a piece of acete which I will ask people in London streets whether they can write down their first impressions of people in the images.
Final Piece
The reason why I looked at people first impression is because I am fascinated by how people are quick to judge others. The fact that this judgemental aspects does not change no matter a person age. In this project I asked a number of different people with different ages to see how age might change a person perpestctive on another human being.
I found out that children the younger they were the more brutally honest about the person physical appearance and did not think of the person personality. Whereas adults/ young adults thought about that person lifestyle and starting to assume the person characteristic they made this assumption from the person facial expression and their clothes and they thought their environment the person was in. This project intention was to bring light to this judgemental charatertics that human beings have and how quick people are to make assumption from the image of a person they have never interacted with.
One thing that was successful was that a lot of people who were different ages wrote on the images. Another thing that I had to think of was the colour of pens used in the project. As people were writing on acete I had to use sharpie as it was a permeant marker, all the other pen I used would rub away. I also had to make sure the colour was bright enough so that it could be seen. The only downside to using kids was that fact that their handwriting is hard to read at times.
I found out that children the younger they were the more brutally honest about the person physical appearance and did not think of the person personality. Whereas adults/ young adults thought about that person lifestyle and starting to assume the person characteristic they made this assumption from the person facial expression and their clothes and they thought their environment the person was in. This project intention was to bring light to this judgemental charatertics that human beings have and how quick people are to make assumption from the image of a person they have never interacted with.
One thing that was successful was that a lot of people who were different ages wrote on the images. Another thing that I had to think of was the colour of pens used in the project. As people were writing on acete I had to use sharpie as it was a permeant marker, all the other pen I used would rub away. I also had to make sure the colour was bright enough so that it could be seen. The only downside to using kids was that fact that their handwriting is hard to read at times.