Aïcha Fall
Aïcha Fall is a French photographer. Her photographs focus on her identity and culture. They explore stories of representation, beauty, femininity and the celebration of black bodies. Fall uses lots of colour in her work, the colours she uses are bright and vibrant and they make the photographs stand out and capture the viewer. Her collection of images using these rich colours are called ‘A Seat at the Table’. This project is was made to celebrate the black experience. Many of the women that she uses in her work are her, her friends and her family- sister, aunt, mother- and said that, these were her first inspirations.
“Being a big fan of fantastic tales, but not often seeing people who look like me within them, I wanted to create my own version. This project is just that – a fantastical, visual tale where I narrate how Black bodies are capable of doing wonders, but also sometimes just Black bodies existing, simply and beautifully.” |
Delfina Carmona
Delfina Carmona is a Photographer, Art Director and Content Creator from Argentina. She works with still life and light to create intricate shadows and lines. She uses vibrant colours and uses lots of primary colours- red, blue and yellow. Most of her work contains shadows and reflections. Her photographs confuse the viewer on first look. Making you think something isn't possible but with the angles and light of photography it allows it to happen. For example, this photograph looks like a two legs which are not attached to a torso- which isn't possible- because the mirror reflects the leg and the person is behind the mirror with their body angled so it looks like the thigh of the leg.
"I SEE DAILY LIFE ARTISTICALLY AS IF IT WERE MY OWN FILM, WHERE I WRITE THE SCREENPLAY OF WHAT HAPPENS TO MY CHARACTER STEP BY STEP” |
Larry Sultan
Larry Sultan is a photographer from California, which was the main source of inspiration for a lot of his projects. His series 'Pictures From Home' depicts his parents and his parents home. Most of the photographs in this series are of his parents doing various things, mostly everyday things, like talking, relaxing, etc.
"And in the odd and jumbled process of working, everything shifts: the boundaries blur, my distance slips, the arrogance and illusion of immunity falters. I wake up in the middle of the night, stunned and anguished. These are my parents. From that simple fact, everything follows." |
First photoshoot
I captured parts of my home which I see all the time and that remind me of home. I tried to make the photographs look cosy with the lighting and composition. I think I was successful with capturing a cosy feel in my photographs because of the lighting. If I were to refine these photographs, I would do still life images of certain things in my house rather than just encapsulating an entire scene.
Frank Frances
Frank Frances' images, explore elements of racism and stereotypes of the American South. This series relates to home as the photographs as he took these photographs during lockdown. The photographs he has taken remind him of his home and his family because these still life photographs explore his own culture through the different types of fruit which are commonly consumed within his culture. The title of the image is Yams, Collards, & Pineapples suggests that the food is significant in the story he is trying to portray. The photographs are taken in the style of a Renaissance painting. The photographs have interesting framing and composition as the lighting makes you focus on the fruits and isolates them which creates a closed atmosphere. This might be similar to the way he was feeling at this time during lockdown, closed in, isolated.
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My own response
We were asked to take still life images of objects which maybe related to us or just objects we had on us. I took a variety of photographs with only a couple of different objects. My photographs have a more contemporary look to them rather an a Renaissance painting look. I tried to set up interesting compositions as the objects by themselves are quite boring, so I needed to create an interesting composition with more objects, and different backgrounds to tackle that issue. In most of my photographs I tried to do a front facing angle or a top down angle. I lit them with the natural light I had around me. This is the image that worked best, it includes colour and an interesting composition. I took the photograph in a brightly lit room and I also took the photograph with flash which allowed the light to reflect off of the blue material. I framed the photograph so that it was at an angle and it was diagonal.
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Niall McDiarmid
I like Niall McDiarmid’s use of light and shadows in his work. It is interesting as it adds a more cosy feel to his work and makes you feel more at home. I think the concept behind these photos is to show how breakfast with family feels like and the time. I think the series took so long to photograph because he wanted to make sure everything was perfectly arranged. I think the images are composed although they look natural. The way the objects are arranged makes it seem unnatural. The images are similar in the objects they contain in the photograph. The differences are the way the table is arranged and some objects change with each photo. All displaying different breakfast tables. I would like to ask the photographer why he specifically chose breakfast as a project, if it had a significant meaning to him. I would also asked how he plans his photographs or if he just takes them in the moment.
Diptych
We were asked to make a diptych on two of our images from home. A diptych is two images combined into a single frame or presented together. I picked these two images because I thought the contrast between the lighting in the photographs made the photographs fit and blend together. The lines and shape make the photographs match together and the darkness around the window matches the darkness on the t-shirt. The rectangle shape of the window makes the photographs fit together more as it looks like the window is framing the photograph on the left. Overall, I think this diptych was successful as although the photographs are very different, they still match together and blend well despite their differences. If I were to refine it I would, edit the photographs just to make the blend together more.
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Second photoshoot
I did another photoshoot for postcards from home. We were asked to take a minimum of 30 photographs. I tried to take photographs of my home but I zoomed in on certain parts and did show the full image. I tried to take pictures of nature as it related to my diptych I had done. I think my photographs came out pretty well, they display my home and my home at Christmas time which is a family holiday. For refinement, I would like to possibly take pictures of my family to incorpate a different aspect of my home into my work.
Diptychs
I made diptychs using the photographs I had taken over Christmas. I put them in a sequence which I thought fit and that looked nice. The sequence doesn't have a story it just flows together. I think the diptychs came out well and flow well together in a sequence. The photographs look nice together and . To refine it, I would take some more photographs and make them unique to the other photographs to add some contrast and different types of diptychs to make the sequence more interesting.
Final EvaluationThis is my final set of diptychs. I tried to match the photographs together with their colour or environment they were taken in. My theme is objects and messy areas around my house. My influences were my house around me. I think this set of diptychs was more successful than my last because I got rid of many of the photos and diptychs that didn't work and chose the ones that worked the best.
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