Reflect & Research

For the book project I once again focused on landscapes. The photos I used I had taken when I was travelling around New Zealand. I took them all on 35mm colour film and went to get them developed so I could have each photo physically in front of me. I then also scanned very image in so i had both a physical and digital version. I enjoyed this because it meant i could physically move the photos about and put them next to each other where i wanted. All of the horizons in the photos matched up pretty well so I could place them next to each other and the photo would carry on. In this project I knew I wanted to push the boundaries of what a book was, I had a few ideas but ended up creating  'fortune teller' or 'chatter box' folded structure. Then for the images I turned the into repeat patterns. This pattern combined with the folds of the paper turned the images unto something quite interesting. These patters reminded me of kaleidoscopes and I personally think they were quit

This was one of my favourite projects I have done. I found the ideas and concepts really interesting, I also really enjoyed producing the work and the final outcomes. The photos I took went through multiple processes to get to the final images. I looked into the ideas of place, location and trace. I also used multiple different types of media, including clay and video. Some of the processes included freezing and defrosting images and clay pieces. Photographing and filming the processes then projecting these images on to objects, photographing this then freezing and defrosting the images. I really like the way the images had been through their own journey. I looked into footprints and leaving a trail, how you can capture this moment of existence. I used clay to make moulds of the soles of shoes as well as rubbings and having people walk on paper. It was about recording a journey. Then the images went through their own journey. I looked at Danny Treacys work, he creates aluminium casts o

PATPOTI was the first project I did in second year. I focused a lot on digital and physical manipulation of portrait photos however there were some elements of land scape photography that I found very interesting and I think relates quite a bit to what I am wanting to look into. For part of this project I digitally manipulated landscapes to create interesting and usual photos, some of them were slightly symmetrical, I enjoyed this part of the project however I didn't really continue with this I moved on to something else, I feel as though this section is relevant.

Square2Square was the second project I did in first year. For this project we were confined to one square on a map of Manchester to work in. My square was St. Peters Square just off Oxford road. I visited the square and took a few street photography images but I also realised there was a lot of different architecture in this square. There were also tram lines and wires in the square. I started off by taking photos of the buildings and physically cutting out spaces between the tramlines, letting these wires decide which bits I got rid of. I then tested out cutting out small sections of the buildings to see how that looked.   After this I started folding the photos along the tramlines to turn the photos into more of structure, these looked interesting and I liked the way it wasn't just a flat photo, it changed how you saw the building in the square. I think this is an idea I would definitely try again. I then started to digitally manipulate the photos, cutting parts out and layering