Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths

Elsie Wright and  Frances Griffiths are famous for their fake fairy photos, for years the pair had a lot of people convinced that the photos were real. They did eventually admit that the photographs had been faked by using cardboard cut outs of fairies. I like the fact that these photos were so famous for so long and had so many people confused and questioning if they were real or not. It is a shame that nothing like could happen now because everyone is used to photographs being manipulated and edited and having things that are not real in them.

Francesca Woodman

To me this group of photos shows the connection between a person and their home. In all of them it shows how the people seem to be fusing or at least trying their hardest to be part of the house and the aspects in it. I like how surreal these photos are but seem to come from a simple idea like wanting your home to reflect yourself in a way... maybe ?

This shows really well what I said about the person trying become a part of their house, they are wrapping the wallpaper around them to try and perhaps hide and become a part of the wall.

This is the first photo that I had ever seen of hers. When I first saw it I spent a while thinking about how she got the burn mark so realistic but I assume it it by using paint that has been watered down or charcoal. The main reason that I like this photo is because I like the idea that when you have been in a house for so long you are going to leave behind something to let people in the future know you were there whether it is intentional or not.

Shropshire Lanes

When I am back in Telford I am the official photographer for a local off-roading group called Shropshire Lanes. I worked with them a few years ago as my then partner had joined their group, but in recent months the person who runs the group has been in contact with me to do a photo for his wife's business and since then he has asked me to go along with them to shoot and to be their photographer. This is something I really enjoy doing and since doing 2 recent photoshoots with them I have been introduced to new people who are offering me help and chances to better my work. A friend of the group works in Egypt for an off-roading magazine, he often takes his 4x4 out into the dessert to have fun and photograph them, the person who runs the group has suggested that I talk to this person to try and see if I could somehow also get involved, which is something I am considering.

Here are the photos that I have done with them recently....

Elisa lazo de valdez photography

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I found these photos on Tumblr a while ago and they are maybe my favourite ever photos. Everything about them to me is perfect. I was thinking about perhaps trying to do my own version of them for my personal project but I don't think that I would be able to do something similar without completely copying them which is not what I want to do. The really pale skin again a solid black background has the kind of consuming feel to it when you see the shadows on the body, as if the darkness was taking over, this is supported by the octopus tentacles being wrapped around the different parts of the body and if they were trying to hold on and keep/consume. They grey/lilac tones gives a very cold feel, but compared to the pale skin and the background they give a tiny hint of warmth in a strange way, but as moisture can be see from the tentacles it more supports the cold moist feel of the photo. I like in the top photos how the tentacles have wrapped in a spiral almost looking as if they were a piece of clothing or body jewellery.

Getrud Goldschmidt Appropriation-London Exhibtion

In a previous post I mentioned about in one of Eva's lessons where we were looking at people who use others work to create something new in their own work and I kind of did this by taking an angled photo of a sculpture. I wrote another way to use this sculpture as my own work by editing the photo a lot and creating something new from it.

The sculptures were by Getrud Goldschmidt.

These are my Appropriation photos of Getrud's sculptures. I edited the contrast A LOT on them, on the bottom imaged I selected the lines of the wire and copied and pasted them on top of the original images moving them slightly to give a little bit of a holographic effect. When I pasted the image, I also made them very slightly transparent.

London 24th April 2014

This was my first time to ever to London! 

And I really enjoyed it. It was nice to be there after so long of wanting to go, I loved the galleries that we managed to get to and the fact that there was so so much to see.

The first place we went was the Tate Modern....

One problem that I always find in galleries is trying not to catch my reflection in photo frames or sculptures that are reflective, but after getting a decent photo of this sculptures I then played around with the small square mirrors and my stripped trousers.

For this piece there was a square around the outside that said do no cross but it was at such a distance you could not see what was inside the box (unless you were really tall) which I thought was a pretty interesting concept. So rather than not knowing the 'mystery' of what was inside the box I held my camera high and took a photo of the inside.

In one of Eva's lectures we were looking at people who use other's work as their own by altering them, like layering a set of photos on top of one another and creating a new images. When I saw these sculptures I thought that I could do something similar by just taking an angled shot to make an 'abstract' photo....

.....Although I didn't really plan on doing this properly, these two photos are just quick examples of what I could of done, maybe layering the images over each other and seriously changing the contrast and making them black and white would be a perfect way of using existing work and making something new.....

This painting reminded me of Mark Rothko...its may look like a simple and easy
painting but to get the lines the exact same would of very difficult to do.

After leaving the gallery we went for a walk around London and came across Ben Wilson, better known as the Chewing Gum Man. He paints on gum that has been spat on the ground, once it has been stood on enough and is no longer sticky he paints on them creating little pieces of art.

A few weeks previous to going to London a friend had asked if I had been and had any London photos, after telling her that I didn't but I was going, she proceeded to tell me that she was setting up a Polish/English translation business and needed some 'English/London' photos to advertise so by going to London this gave me the chance to help her out.