Third Year, Week 7

Not had a very productive week in terms of producing new work, but managed to get lots of little, irritating jobs done and out of the way. Over the next 5 weeks or so, I'll be shooting films based on the following photographs (5x4 contact prints) and looking to conclude this area of my project in time for Christmas assessment.

Contact prints sepia toned, printed onto Ilford Warmtone FB paper;

Ilford Warmtone FB toned in Selenium (archival);
Resin coated (Jessops) paper;



Apologies for the poor quality images! Next week I'll be scanning them and editing them digitally in Photoshop, so I'll have better images soon.

Venice Biennale 2011

I was lucky enough to be able to go to the Venice Biennale last week. Saw lots of amazing art, but definitely thought the Gardini was better than the Arsenale. Found lots of inspiration, but right now I'm keeping all those ideas until second semester, and getting my head down to get my final photographs done for our assessment in 6 weeks (eek!).

For me, the two highlights were Christian Boltanski's "Chance", which can be watched here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47o10W_ltVc , and Mike Nelson, who represented Britain;

....And some photographs from my adventures! In no particular order;

Roland Barthes, 'Camera Lucida'

"It is said that mourning, by its gradual labor, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot beleive this; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss (I do not weep), that is all. For the rest, everything has remained motionless. For what I have lost is not a Figure (the Mother), but a being; and not a being, but a quality (a soul): not the indespensible, but the irreplaceable. I could live without the Mother (as we all do, sooner or later) ; but what life remained would be absolutely and entirely unqualifable (without quality)."

Third Year, Week Four

Over the past two weeks I've spent time at home and in Dundee photographing family members around my Grans house using my 5 x 4 Large format camera. I'll be continuing to do so over the semester with looking to have some more finalised images by Christmas. All films are Ilford HP5+, contact printed on Jessops B&W paper (Yes, i know its fogged a little!)...