SCARTI
Scarti is a photobook full of photos created by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin entirely on large format colour negative. But during the printing of Ghetto, the Scarti were saved and stored away by publisher Gigi Giannuzzi which were later discovered after his death. In reality, the series is nothing but a couple of accidents. The photographs were reused throughout the photobook with different compositions each time. It was interesting to see how the same photograph could be reused in so many other photographs and still make the photo more interesting and add depth to it.
If I were to respond to these images I would create a set of images, with a variety of different genres - portrait, still life, landscape, etc. I would then try different ways of layering the photographs together, editing, printing on other paper and overlapping them together. I would make some of the overlaps less obvious, making them look like they're one picture but in reality they are not. I would also make some which is very obvious that there is more than one photo layers on top of the other to create a contrast between the two. I would try to be risky with the printing process as to create accidents which might look good but might also come out badly. It would scare me to leave a photo up to chance as photography in the modern day isn't very chance based as you can see what you're taking and look at it straight after you've taken it and redo it if you made a mistake.
Hicham Benohoud inspired photographs
I tried to take photographs which are inspired by the photographer Hicham Benohoud. He made his students do random things with different props and took photographs of them while the rest of the class was still learning. So, when taking photographs inspired by Benohoud, I tried to include that sense of weirdness and randomness of the props. I found this task difficult as I wasn't sure on how to go about it and how to make it different. Overall, I think this photoshoot turn out pretty well, there was a sense of Benohoud's photographs in mine. However, if I were to do this again I would try to make the photographs more visually appealing rather than just trying to recreate Benohoud's practice.
Photographs Inspired By Benohoud #2
The focus of my photoshoot was to take photographs inspired by Benohoud again. This time I focused more on one or two props to make the photoshoot more cohesive. The risks I took was the model constantly moving around with their objects leaving an element of chance in my photographs. It was awkward working with a model especially when the model was someone I don't talk to, however, this turned out to be a good thing as I was able to get ideas from them and improve my photoshoot. I used fabric to obstruct the subject as to distort their features and to make them unrecognisable. Overall, this photoshoot came out better than my first photoshoot as I think it looks nicer and looks more like a set of images while still having a Benohoud inspiration with the use of props and distortion of the figure.
I picked this image as I thought it was the most successful in my photoshoot. It is interesting with the fabric over her eyes as it distorts the face. The blurry effect from the darkness and the movement of the subject adds more to the image and makes it interesting to look at.
The other images were photographs by chance. We were asked to get out a photography book and turn to page 14 and use that image. I did this twice as to create more versions of my edited image and because I wasn't happy with the original image I got. I found the first photograph boring and I didn't like the way it looked with my photograph so I ended up doing it again which I preferred to the first photograph as I think it lined up better with my photograph.
The other images were photographs by chance. We were asked to get out a photography book and turn to page 14 and use that image. I did this twice as to create more versions of my edited image and because I wasn't happy with the original image I got. I found the first photograph boring and I didn't like the way it looked with my photograph so I ended up doing it again which I preferred to the first photograph as I think it lined up better with my photograph.
Layering like Scarti
I used the photograph I chose from my photoshoot and the image I got by chance and layered them on top of each other, similar to the way the photographs are layered in the Scarti photobook. I wasn't happy with the first two edits as I thought they were boring and the image I got by chance didn't add anything to my photograph. So, I chose another photobook and got a different image, this one I preferred to the other image, as it was more interested and created another layer to my photograph when edited on top. The best outcome is the last one, I flipped the image just to see what it would look like and it ended up lining up well on my photograph.