Tina Barney

I was just thinking about how I had been struggling to create ideas recently, when i read over this quote;

'Look at your own life. Read about art, go and see art.' Tina Barney

I know it's obvious, but sometimes I think too hard about ideas when they could be right in front of me, and when we looked at the work of my some of my favorite photographers the other day, ideas began to come.

Thursday tutorial

I spoke with Sarah in a tutorial the other day, and to be honest it was very productive and worthwhile for me. I mentioned to her that i had been struggling to come up with ideas and that nothing was flowing. She asked me what photographers i liked and after viewing some of their images, we began to talk of some possible directions for my work to go in.

Linus Ricard:



There is a clear monotone running through this image, and it looks amazing, but what I'm interested in here is the space that she fills, and the space that surrounds her. She has her own personal space within the location, however the space is not very personal at all.



The same is too be said with these two images of his also. It could be good to experiment with putting a model in a vast, open and empty space, and looking at that space which surrounds them, that possibly makes them vulnerable.

Gregory Crewdson:



These images by Crewdson again are examples of a vast open space with the subject tiny within the frame. Yes they are more about the stories behind the people and situations, however i can take the compositional and location elements as a starting point.

Personal Space

So the brief, which runs for only two weeks is titled 'Personal Space', and we are asked to produce three images in total for a group crit at the end. I am being asked to intepret this in any way i wish, and perhaps use Edward T. Hall as a starting point.

The four bodily spaces are:
Intimate (0-18inches) - for embracing, touching or whispering.
Personal/Casual (1.5-4 feet) - for interactions among good friends.
Social (4-10 feet) - for interactions among acquaintances.
Public (10 feet and beyond) - used for public speaking.



Useful as a starting point, however this seems all a bit too formal for me to base my images on.

Where are my ideas?

Currently it has been hard to formulate any ideas for images. Since we got our first assignment for third year last week entitled 'Personal Spaces', i have been having a blank. I begin to think of something good, but then it becomes hard for me to communicate it into a strong idea or image.

Perhaps the summer break has left me somewhat out of practice. I didn't shoot much, and what i did was more a documentation on things i did.





Just something i was messing around on a night out with my camera. I really like the light it provides, possibly a location for the future.





I like these, not much use for anything, but i like the sky in particular.

Interesting!

What advice would you give to a budding photographer?

'My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don't think about the marketplace, what sells, or what an editor might say. And don't think about style. It's all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.' David Lachapelle



To me, this looks like the work of a photographer that is making the images he wants to make, so unique. The 'Death by Hamburger' image is fantastic!

From traditional to digital...

The seminar given by Sarah yesterday was helpful (something we should all have been given in 1st year perhaps). I think that i was wasting my time with actual logbooks, spending too much money on printing and i never could engage with them, so here is something new; my blogbook.