Conclusion Of The Project

Once finishing this project I realised that our group was lacking in communication which led us unable to visit the site as a team. We all kind of split and started to work individually but still around the same subject. I also realised that if we were to actually carry out the project it wouldn't be very reliable as there was no safe place to put the cameras or to guarantee we'd even retrieve any photographs from it. With this in mind it would jeopardise the whole idea.

If I were to do this again I would maybe work amongst a smaller group of up to 3 as it would be easier to communicate between each other, I would also use a different idea and arrange various pre-visits to the site to see if the idea was practical and would be successfully carried out.

WEEK 3

Finalising Plans

Our Idea;
Our group came up with the idea to place a number of disposable cameras in two separate locations, and leave them there for a day/night, where members of the public will have the chance to use the cameras to take images of anything they want in that area. There will be signs next to the cameras to give the public an insight on the project and what has to be carried out, also there will have to be regular monitoring on the cameras from members of the group, incase they become damaged or unable to produce images. It will be very interesting to see the differences in the images taken, as we have chosen two very opposite locations. Clifton being a very middle to high class area in Bristol, with busy shops and cafe's, to businesses and a University. Whereas The Bear Pit, although still thought to be very well-known in the Bristol area, has a lot more middle to low class residents in and around it. With it being a large underpass from Stokes Croft to the Broadmead city centre, there is rarely a time where its not busy which can also become a place many people avoid during weekend nights as there are many intoxicated and homeless people passing through there and even sleeping in the small tunnels. I think this idea of the project will be very successful in showing the contrast within the areas and how much variety places in Bristol have.
We planned that once we have gone through with the project and seen the pictures we have got, we want to display some of them within the 2 locations for example in a shop window.

• Where we are going: Stokes Croft, The Bearpit, Bristol & Clifton, Bristol.
• Travel: Walking as the Bear Pit is walking distance from where I live, but also Bus travel may be needed to reach parts of Clifton.
• Identified risks in the risk assessment require a change in our initial plans? The risks identified in our risk assessment require no change to our initial plans as they have been carefully thought through.
•  What we are going to look at while we're there: I will look at where we may want to place the disposable cameras, the average amount of people around the area at the times I visit them and the area in general to be able to have a bigger knowledge and understanding of our chosen areas.
• How we will record our findings: I will record my findings by taking photographs as I travel around the areas, so I am able to look back on what i have taken from the visits and also take notes.

WEEK 2

Seminar Preparation Task

Practitioners I admire:

• Barbara Kruger

• Nick Knight

• Alexey Titarenko

• Solve Sundsbo

Most of the practitioner's work that I admire would display their work close to home as that is where they would be most recognised and known. The publicity may have biased views on their work as they may be apart of the location the photo shoots took place in or where their from.
As for the fashion photographers this may not always be the case as their work is promotional based and would get the best results by displaying there work around the most well known art galleries such as Tate Modern London, Victoria & Albert Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Exhibiting your work in such high end popular places, would give you large publicity and acknowledgement from people interested in your work.

Research Task

Locations our group has chosen: 

1. The Bear Pit, Stokes Croft
2. Clifton

Risk Assessments:

The Bear Pit- Stokes Croft- Bristol

Clifton- General area- Bristol

WEEK 1 3 Other Artists

Barbara Kruger

http://www.barbarakruger.com/

Sebastião Salgado

http://www.amazonasimages.com/sebastiao-salgado?PHPSESSID=187f769f5c2e463688562caab91afee7

Eiko & Koma

http://www.eikoandkoma.org/



Nick Brandt

Nick Brandt was born in London, England, 1966. He is a photographer who bases his work in Africa. He does this to be able to photograph and record the wild animals and places before they become destroyed from the hands of man.
He uses a medium-format black and white film camera, without zoom lenses. Most of his work is of panoramas of animals in wonderful landscapes and graphic portraits. He likes to photograph the animals up close to be able to portray their personalities.
He quotes- "You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close."

 

Some of his work:



Website http://www.nickbrandt.com/

James Nizam

James Nizam was born in Bedfordshire, England 1977. He is currently based in Vancouver, and his art work explores the links between photography and architecture.
I am particularly interested in his series of light installations called "Trace Heavens" as they are very beautiful images and they have a very unique style. To create them Nizam made incisions into a structure of a house to be able to experiment and manipulate sunlight into light sculptures.

His work has been exhibited in Canada and abroad with upcoming solo exhibitions at Birch Libralato Toronto, Christophe Guye Zurich, and the Yukon Arts Centre. 

Light Installations:
 

 

Other work:

 

 

Website http://www.jamesnizam.com/ 

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is an American conceptual Photographer and also a film director. She was born in 1954, New Jersey, and is mostly known for her portraiture photography.
She creates and photographs sets in which she appears as various characters. She does this in order to borrow from certain particularities of stereotypical images of women in popular media, which makes audiences recognise the original stereotypical image. She also titles each image as 'Untitled' to depersonalise the images as she wants people to see the meaning and the character in the image rather than the photographer taking a self portrait. Sherman likes to use herself to comment on a variety of issues such as;

• The role of women
• The role of the artist

Extract from the book Her Bodies 

Rossalind Krauss- '..the condition of being a copy without being an original.'. 

Some of her work

Website http://www.cindysherman.com/