#MajorProject1

[sarawitek]

Photography Major Project 1 - First Trip to Chernobyl; Part 2

some more pictures I took, via my Camera for my project.

[anastasiachristou]

PHOTOGRAPHY MAJOR PROJECT 1

B&W Edits

[jacquelinemulvaney]

contact sheets

Brickfield Meadow

4.11.21

[melissaussuk]

Mock-up & Final Images in edited, print ready format for the wall

These are my final images, edited, and uploaded. I have learned so much from this as I got 10 years older in the last few days. I need to be more organised and definitely spare more time editing and consider that things may go wrong and this is definitely not good during lockdown as I cannot get any help. Major Project 2 will be better for me in so many ways. I will not be repeating the mistakes I made this term.  

Mock up

Images (Not in Chronological order)

[jade-chopra]

[issyphoto]

Budget

[itsannajovanovic]

[frankieannknee]

Major Project 1 - Time Plan

January

9th - 16th Jan 

Borrow camera, lenses and tripod from uni, go and shoot areas that I have already shot, already know where I need to be positioned so just achieve final images for these. 

16th - 23rd Jan

Contact archive again and find out whether I am able to copy/take some of the archival images of town. 

23rd - 30th Jan

Borrow equipment and shoot areas which I have not yet explored, concentrate on getting the positioning correct. 

30th - 6th Feb 

Go out with drone, try and capture birds eye shots of town, similar to ones found. Find more images of old green spaces which are now gone around town. 

6th - 13th Feb 

Go out and shoot areas which have completely changed over the years, these do not have an original to copy from so figure out what expresses the change in these images the best. 

13th - 20th Feb

Go and photograph areas in the housing crisis such as terminus street, see if I can gain entry to the flats themselves. This then gives me the opportunity to add this in if I feel that this is what the project needs in order to be successful. 

20th - 27th Feb

Collect media coverage of housing crisis to include in final piece.

 27th - 5th Mar

Start editing and bringing work together, figure out how coherent the work really is as a whole, decide whether I feel anything image wise is missing. 

5th - 12th Mar

Go out and finish any last photographs if needed. If not begin working on layout/presentation of work. 

12th - 19th Mar

Continue working on presentation.

19th - 26th Mar 

Start planning on creation of final piece.

26th - 2nd April

Create final piece, print book or finish editing documentary video. 

[sorayayoungcap]

Maps of the routes of my first 4 walks. These routes I have repeated on numerous occasions, taking photos, recording video footage and enjoying the company of friends and family. The walks I have undertaken have been in sunshine, rain, sleet and snow over the past couple of months. I have collected soil from the path, seaweed from the beach and grasses from the hedgerow. The seaweed and soil I have used to dye cotton (not very successfully) and have pressed the seaweed with lovely results. I have also used earth in one of my watercolour paintings to give texture. 

[lesley-catterall-price]

Advanced Research Methods: Week 3. Advanced Research Methods: Gallery Visit - Olafur Eliasson. Journal Task 3

TASK: Write a reflection on what you saw today. Which methodology/ies could you use to analyse images from the exhibition?

Eliasson’s interest in nature, geometry and how humans perceive, feel and interact with the world around us is explored throughout the exhibition. What strikes me most about this exhibition is how has taken over the gallery; not in every room but in every aspect: indoors, outdoors, the restaurant, live link ups to his studio in Berlin, to the recycling of T-shirts in the gift shop to get a discount, nothing has been missed.  It is completely interactive almost to the point of assaulting your senses.

The artwork covers the period from the 1990s to the present day which means you could analyse this work from a historical perspective.

The broad variety of the work covers several genres that could be used to analyse this exhibition: Art Theory: conceptual, abstraction, aesthetics, and environmental theory. The work covers a period of 30 years so you could also analyse this in a historical context. To give justice to this exhibition several of these methodologies would have to be used to analyse it fully. I would use those previously mentioned; historical, conceptual, abstraction and environmental.

The moss wall, 1994, was revolutionary in its day but it feels out dated to me now. It would be interesting to analyse this further in the historical context to better understand the impact at the time and how that has influenced other works.

I am a lover of symmetry and geometry so the kaleidoscopes and the artwork in the model rooms were interesting but my favourite pieces were; Beauty, 1993, Your Blind Passage, 2010 and a more recent work, Big Bang Fountain, 2014.

Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uvIRMIvCTE-XS6_e9b11FY66DQs_O6r5/view?usp=sharing

Beauty, 1993

I could have sat at the back of the room and watched this rainbow of colours pouring down all day, it made me feel completely relaxed and peaceful. Eliasson’s ‘interests in illumination, nature and perception’ was the inspiration for this piece. I would analyse it using a conceptual methodology to gain a better understanding of this piece. It might lead me onto other methodologies to investigate.

VIDEO: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FRdn9A-FFyc9BqR3rHWf6oBo4sBTV6Xa/view?usp=sharing

Your Blind Passage, 2010. (image from Guardian Review) 

This had the most profound impact on the senses, having limited sight, the changing colours and the weird, not very pleasant taste it left behind. When one sense is blocked your other senses kick in to bridge that gap, to keep you safe, it’s a primal instinct. I suspect it is the piece that affects the audience the most and in very different ways; some love it, like me, others would hate it. Again this is very conceptual and abstract.

VIDEO: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17YcgqdNu66jvmFtCuhqLs76-H6VIfMLe/view?usp=sharing

Big Bang Fountain, 2014

It’s difficult to decide whether I prefer this artwork to Beauty. Beauty affected how I felt i.e. peaceful etc. but this intrigued me in how it affected my sight. Once my eyes adjusted to the darkness I was able to make out the different shapes and droplets of the water. It also left a residual image on my retina so that even after the water have disappeared I could still see its ghostly shadow floating in the air until it was replaced with the next ‘real’ burst of water. I would certainly look at this from a conceptual and art theory perspective.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the exhibition and there is plenty of food for thought in terms of the media to use to interpret different subjects and how this could be analysed in so many different ways. However, when it came to the last room with an A-Z of different ideas and influences I had had enough to really spend any time in there to appreciate it. There was too much for a 1 hour visit. It is an exhibition that I feel needs several visits to fully appreciate it, having said that the cost is prohibitive to make that a reality.

[sarawitek]

Photography Major Project 1 - Practice Photoshoot 2

For this practice photoshoot, I went to an abandoned old stable which is all falling apart and decaying. I also came across a tree which had been struck by lightening and it added a sense of tension for the area.

[anastasiachristou]

PHOTOGRAPHY MAJOR PROJECT 1

Abandoned houses-Interiors

Photograph I took in the Northern part of Cyprus, focusing on the abandoned interiors of homes.

[jacquelinemulvaney]

Brickfields Meadow

 Pond/Lake.

Tennison Road

South Norwood SE25

7.10.21

 Brickfield meadow is a public open space in South Norwood behind a secluded entrance which means very few people are aware that it even exists. It was formally the site of Woodside brickworks, which was a product of the area’s Victorian industrial heritage as the clay used to be dug out and fired into building materials. In the 1930s, one million bricks were being made every week. Croydon council took control of the site in the early 1990s. The whole area of the meadow covers a size of 10 acres. The pond/Lake is a bit of a surprize as it is quite big, deep, and filled with a great variety of different fish, the fish vary in size and include Rudd, Roach Perch, and carp, the advice is to fish around the borders and banks and in and under the branch’s weedy areas around the rocks.

The main part of the pond was an old clay pit and when the clay run out, clay was then taken from the Victoria line underground tunnels to make bricks. There is also a smaller more natural pond that leads into the large one under a wooden bridge. It also boasts a healthy population of waterfowl, including moor hen and many birds can be heard to be singing in the otherwise quiet and peaceful place.  As well as the pond/Lake, there is a Buddleia valley, grassland, woodland areas, woodland planting, a small children’s play area which includes a mini maze and is surrounded by new housing. Fishing is allowed and dipping platforms are provided, however, eating of the fish is not recommended and swimming is not allowed as the lake is unkempt with rubbish and fly tipping taking place in the pond, at one point (2013), even an abandoned car could be seen in the water.

After one clean up in 2018 a whole living room was found, complete with T.V., this has resulted in cloudy brown water. There is a community group that has formed to try and maintain the meadow and raise funds for this. This is one of my favourite paces to sit and relax as it is so quite and chilled with few people around as no one knows about it. Its my very own escape from the hassle and bustle of life.

[melissaussuk]

Submission Forms

[jade-chopra]

Final Design Layout of Pilot

A Lust for Life by Jade Chopra

This series of images is presented as a diary which documents the four-week lockdown before Christmas. In this book, themes of loneliness, isolation, boredom etc. will be explored through the many lows of the day-to-day life in quarantine.