Fourth Year, Christmas Assessment

Christmas Assessment starts on Monday, and I've spent the past week or so hanging my works and sorting out smaller finishing touches.  Some pictures of my final set up;

5 x 4" negative scanned, edited and printed digitally to 24 x 30 inches on Photorag Paper;

 Triptych, images printed to 5 x 4" mounted onto aluminium dibond;

 Supporting materials;

 Negative scanned, printed digitally to 5 x 4" onto Hahnemuhle Photorag paper and framed;

I'm very pleased with what I am showing, and spent a lot of time revisiting the order of the images, and the four finals that I chose to show.  I really like the images mounted onto the aluminium dibond, as they appear to 'float' from the wall, with a nice shadow surrounding to naturally frame them.  I got the dibond images printed by a german company, but I don't think the actual print does the images justice, so I am getting a test print done over the Christmas holidays from the company I use in Edinburgh.  I used them to print the large image, and am very pleased with it!

I'm looking forward to feedback, and seeing what the tutors think and have to say about it all.

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Found this today.

Fourth Year, Week 10

I've been working on my slides for the slide show we have to present to the marking panel before assessment, and found it really useful to clarify what my final works will be.

Three final images, which will be printed to 5 x 4", mounted onto aluminium di-bond, and presented as a triptych.

This image will be printed to 24 x 30" on Photo Rag paper.  In comparison to the above images, it is a lot more cluttered, and so when printed large it has a lot more of an impact.

Finalising things for Christmas assessment has made me think towards my degree show and what it potentially may look like.  At the moment, I'm thinking of having a few very large, high impact images, and a series of smaller, more intimate works, but am not entirely sure yet.  My prints should be here next week, and I am looking forward to seeing what they will look like when they are all presented together!

Over the Christmas holiday I will be taking more photos, and will continue this into next semester.  I'm hoping to spend a lot of time considering the photos as individual images, as a part of a series, and their relation to each other.  This is what informs the viewer of the ideas so I'm hoping to get it totally sorted!  This semester I've spent a lot more time sorting out my photoshop, scanning, and getting the actual image quality up to standard so I'm hoping this will make a nice change.

Fourth Year, Week 9

The past few weeks have been quite slow.  I'm starting to finalise things for Christmas assessment, so been doing a lot of thinking and milling things over, rather than actually making and doing things.  I made a frame last week, which I'm really pleased with, although I am going to make another one, with a larger mount, as right now I think it's too similar to the width of the photograph;

I have also ordered three 5x4" images mounted onto aluminium di-bond, which should be here in about two weeks.  I'm really excited to see them!

Been looking at Gareth McConnells work.  He uses a large format camera to take his photographs...

His 'Meditations' series is by far my favourite;

"According to whether we are in the same place or separated one from the other, I know you twice.  There are two of you.
   When you are away, you are nevertheless present for me.  This presence is multiform: it consists of countless images, passages, meanings, things known, landmarks, yet the whole remains marked by your presence, in that it is diffuse.  It is as if your person becomes a place, your contours horizons.  I live in you then like living in a country.  You are everywhere.  Yet in that country I can never meet you face to face.
   Partir est mourir un peu.  I was very young when I first heard this sentence quoted and it expressed a truth I already knew.  I remember it now because it experience of living in you as if you were a country, the only country in the world where I can never conceivably meet you face to face, this is a little like the experience of living with the memory of the dead.  What I did not know when I was very young was that nothing can take the past away: the past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
   In the country which is you I know your gestures, the intonations of your voice, the shape of every part of your body.  You are not physically less real there, but you are less free.
   What changes when you are there before my eyes is that you become unpredictable.  What you are about to do is unknown to me.  I follow you.  You act.  And with what you do, I fall in love again."

- John Berger, 'And our Faces, my Heart, brief as Photos'