Week 10

Reflection on Influences

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It was week 3 that the class visited the Photographer’s Gallery. It was there that I got to interact with the photographs of Saul Leiter. They were impressionistic and flaneuristic. I fell in love with them and his techniques. It is not my main style of photography, but I have taken away a great deal from analyzing his work. It is expressive and in your face. There is not too much hidden meaning because he lays it out all for you. It is a fleeting moment that the world is captured in his lens. His use of exploiting texture and reflection is also prominent. I have used that by becoming more aware of the differences in textures and highlighting upon them in my own work. His work has interested me because he combines so many different approaches to art successfully. Hes taken a painting technique and used it for photography. His creativity and execution are incredible. Beyond that, each photograph is very interesting. He has inspired me to start taking photographs of people. However not portraits, but more when the camera lens acts as a passerby. Fleeting moments of time. I am still not too good at it, but it has pushed me to try.

Final Project Progress Report #2

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I originally wanted to capture London through architecture. That idea has never changed. I wanted to capture and represent this city by not using the people that live here. Rather than exploit the surroundings people live in and how that infrastructure can influence their life. I also wanted to explain how diverse different parts of the city were while still being uniformed and connected. There are multiple personalities in London, but the all connect back to one identity. I believe that by photographing the architecture unique to my favorite places, it will give insight to that theory and help answer how a greatly diversified population all live in London at once.

The one aspect I did have to modify, was that I wanted to do this all with blue skies. This was not really possible, because London weather is not the most friendly. I still will and have gone out on clear days, but some photographs have clouds in them so far. I picked locations that are closer to my experience in London and places I frequent often. What i am using to achieve fluidity within the series is the angle ad point of view of my photographs. I want them to be in the viewers face head on, and not necessarily the most flattering photograph for that building. Its my representation of London and how the architecture interacts with the world around it. This relationship between the tangible and non tangible reality.

These are the photographs I will use so far:

What I have mainly focused on is the use of color and high contrasts. I still am influenced by Saul Leiter and the certain angles and point of views he used to approach a message. They were not always the best, but made the image more powerful.