Monday 9th November

Today we started off with contextual studies with Chris and Catherine, they were showing us abstract art and photography. We were showed work by people such as Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, El Lissitzky, Fritz Lang, Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz and Alexander Rodchenko.

 

 

 

 

We were then set the task to go out and take our own abstract photo's, which was cool.

 

 

 

Here's one of the pictures that I took, It's not very abstract but I thought that the graffiti on a white wall looked quite cool and simple, which is abstract in a way.

In the afternoon, we then did film developing, which was really fun!! I unfortunately was so wrapped up in getting the film done that I didn't get around to taking any photo's of the process.

Bob Mazzer

The other day I had a notification on Facebook saying I had been tagged in a post by Jordan, I clicked on the notification and to my surprise it was a guy's Facebook album that he had put on of his photographs of how he had taken photo's of people on the tube for 40 years. I had a look through the pictures and absolutely fell in love with them, I just love the way they're taken. So in the moment and natural, and it shows how wacky some people in the world are!

 

Jack Garofalo

I was just searching around for street photography when I came across this photographer called 'Jack Garofalo' who was one of the leading photographers for Paris Match magazine. He spent six weeks in Harlem, New York, in the summer of 1970 and his images were the cover story of Match in October that year. In the 1960s, large numbers of residents left Harlem for neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, seeking better schools, improved housing and a stronger sense of safety. Left in Harlem were the people who couldn't afford to or chose not to move. I really like these photo's because they're quite old looking and you can see he captured them right in the moment.

 

 

The Library pt 2

Tuesday 3rd November



 

Today was the second day of the Library project, we were all allowed to wonder back over to the library and take some more cool pictures for the project. We started off just in the library but Cass then told us about a building across the road that was part of the library but the public don't go into. It was like a store room downstairs and then on the second floor it was like a church. It was absolutely beautiful, stain glass windows, old books in boxes covered in dust, it just looked like something you'd see in a film. I really enjoyed going up there. Although im not extremely happy with the photo's I took there, I was still happy to have the experience of going to a place like that and being able to take photo's.

 

 

 (all photos are unedited)

 

The Library



Monday 2nd November

 

Today we were given our third project which was all about the library! We got the chance to go into the library and explore every little detail of it before it gets moved to a different location. We all went about taking photo's of all the different things we found interesting in the Library, I was mesmerised by the amazing wooden bookshelves in two different rooms on the second floor, just the look of the old books, up against a dark wood, with a yellow tinge of light just was amazing to me.  

 

Autumn fun

Just messing about with the camera + dan and phil