Just haven't had time to make an entry recently. Following my formative assessment for textiles I have spent a couple of weeks trying to get my reflective journal up together. Finally sorted and now just need to respond and update regularly, making sure that I critically respond to my thoughts and creative or inspirational moments/ memories.
That aside I thought it was about time I entered some of my photographs on my blog. I am really interested in street photography, capturing moments of curiosity, enjoyment and response to the environment and this will be my medium of choice for our Professional Practice exhibition at Walcot Chapel.
I went to visit an exhibition of street photography by Roger Mayne: 60 photographs forming a major retrospective at Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. This was Mayne 's first exhibition for 22 years, showing images of London streets, capturing it's vivacious activity amongst abject poverty. Mayne spent some time getting to know his subjects so that he was able to take relaxed images without people directly posing for the shot. This is the sort of photography that I really enjoy but it can be quite difficult to execute as I always feel a little self conscious and concerned that people may not like having photograph taken: of course this can be got round by using a zoom and shooting in raw so that distancesubjects can be captured discretely/ secretly.
Mayne states that'Photography involves two main distortions - the simplification into black and white and the seizing of an instant in time. It is this particular mixture of reality and unreality, and the photographer's power to select, that makes it possible for photography to be art...' (Roger Mayne, Peace News, 1960, quoted in - http://www.rogermaine.com/menu.htm ). I do think black and white images give photography a a simpler angle but at the same time a bigger element of truth as you remove colour that can, on it's own, carry or persuade different emotions.
My exhibition peace for Walcot Chapel will be this image taken at the harbour side in Bristol, outside the Watershed. The crowd are watching a jaz band playing in the corner of the walk way. This young lady had no interest in it as she appears to be waiting for a friend or perhaps boyfriend to arrive. It will be 85cm x 85cm.
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