Backround images for -New World-

Backround images for -Fire and Stone-

Sketches of proposed photos

Idea revisited

So I've had to pull apart my idea a little bit and change some things - mainly due to practical reasons.

So the original idea came about because as a kid I always wondered why New world was named new world as it had nothing to do with a world that was new. For this project I thought how cool it would be if there was a literal new world in new world.

I wanted to work with this fantasy theme and develop this idea of having a world with a world. I wanted to have child's perspective as if a bored child going shopping with their parents would imagine something different in the store.
I wanted to take the photos at night time to give the feeling of a secret world that only would come out at night. Like the toys in toy story that only come alive when your not looking. I wanted this affect with my photos.

So my plan is to have 4 shops and have 2 sets of images for each shop.
I did consider having contrasting images of daytime and night but decided that the night photos were enough.

So the shops I was planning to take photos of are

- New World = literal new world (planing to take pictures of light trails)

- Fire and Stone = pictures of fire

- Bunnings = field of bunnies (if this is possible)

 

-Target = have archery and targets

I want to print the photos when they're done and put them on white board for the presentation.

First Shoot New World.

First Shoot - Contact sheet

Project 1 - Photographic Fictions

Project 1

My aim with this project is to create a series of photographs that convey the idea of having literal meanings displayed in the photograph. When I was little I was always fascinated at the fact that the name New World had absolutely nothing to do with grocery shopping. So I though that with this project that I would choose supermarkets and create in those supermarkets the literal meaning of the supermarket name. For example with new world, I want to put into new world a “new world”. I thought of taking photos of the outside of the supermarkets so that when you look into the windows of them you can see the literal meaning of the supermarket name in them.

I thought that this would be interesting as I find supermarkets extremely boring and the temperature is always cold, making it an uncomfortable place. So I wanted to create an imaginative world within these supermarkets like bored children would when having to accompanying their parents when they went food shopping. I want to draw on a science fiction theme a little bit with these photos, with the idea of having a world within a world. I would intend for this work to be put in a gallery.

Agan Harahap

Agan Harahap, "Garden Fresh", 2012, 8 images published on Agan Harahap's portfolio on the website Behance.

These photos use the genre effect  of surreal and constructed imagery. These photos which have been manipulated to tell a story across the frame, which looks like the relationship between the animals environment its confliction with the human one.

Digital photographs have been taken, and photo-shop effects have been used to construct the images of the animals and the supermarket. The lighting and colour has been altered to mimic the supermarket lighting.

The photo below is in Colour, Landscape photo, the two objects that take up most of the frame are a tiger and meat. The tiger is in almost the centre at the top of the photo looking up at meat in a supermarket shelf, we are looking down on the tiger and the meat. The main colours we see are brown and orange.

The context behind these photos is that Harahap wanted to show, that the relationship between animals and humans is a shifting one, he wanted to show what would happen when wild animals come into our life and in our environment.

I like that there are conflicting worlds that are inhabiting the same space. You feel as if the animals are-not supposed to be there and that they are not supposed to see the remains of other animals. Also I like that from these pictures you can almost see how these animals behave in this strange environment. I chose this precedents because of how these worlds are conflicting, and I plan to draw from this and put in my work worlds that conflict with each-other also.

Janol Apin

Janol Apin, Title of series: Metropolisson, taken between 1993-1999, Photos were published book by Métropolisson Lacarothe. There are 120 photos in the series that are 21cm x 28cm.

The genre approach for this series is comedy, Apin uses constructed imagery to show the literal meanings for the metro stations in Paris in a humorous way. These images show comedy being played out in the visual. Apin uses film for this series, the images are taken in black and white and Apin also uses lighting to give a kind of harsh look.

The photo below is landscape, its taken in black and white film. The name of the Paris train station "Champ de Mars" is in the left top hand corner and in the centre left of the picture is an astronaut. Harsh lighting is used to create big shadows in the right and left of the photo, with the astronaut being lit brightly.

Apin is a French photographer. Her inspiration draws on artists that uses black and white photography and that use humour and poetry through their images. Apin drew on those precepts for these images.

Apin series is a great example of having literal meaning in photographs. I like the theme of taking names literally and then showing the real meaning in the photograph. I like how the different photographs are taken from different angles and not just from the same point of view. I'm thinking of taking this theme and developing it in my own photographic series.

Dan Escobar

Dan Escobar, American Photographer, Title of series : Embarq, "Shark water droplets", "Ship somo more dust" and "Easter is for Andy" , fiction images taken in 2009.

Escobar uses surrealism and fantasy in these fiction images. Photo manipulation has been used to create an environment that fits in the house.

The photo below is landscape, in colour that has been made to look very rich, we are outside of a suburban house looking into a window. Inside the house we can see sharks and water inside the house. A woman who is in the first third of the photo is on a step ladder putting a shark inside the house. This photo has a humorous and surreal mood to it.

Escobar's work involves a lot of manipulation, he works for big names like EBay, Adidas, Motorola, and Adobe and does a lot of advertisements. These images were taken for the company Embarq in Mullen North Carolina, which is a telephone company, these photos were apart of an advertising scheme to encourage people to sign up with there company for faster wireless internet.

I liked that Dan's images had a grounding in reality. That they weren't totally fiction and were based in real life. For example the image of the man wheeling in an Easter Island Statue in his dressing gown, that does not happen, but the normal everyday person does go out to check the letter box in their dressing gown. For my series I want to draw on Escobar's "shark water droplets" image in terms of having a world within a medium that is the house.


"Shark water droplets"

 

"Ship somo more dust"

 

 

"Easter is for Andy"