David Hockney and Adde Adesokan are two of the worlds most renowned names in the photography industry, and after producing a case study and own imagery, inspired by both artists when studying photography at A-Level, I felt they’d portrayal a vital role within my degree and portfolio as they created photography styles that not manyContinue reading “David Hockney and Adde Adesokan (Artist Research)”
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Mass Isolation Project
With COVID-19 causing a worldwide pandemic and affecting our daily way of living, it was suggested by my tutor that myself and everyone on the course should participate in the Mass Isolation Project and produce a series of images in which showcase the emptiness of our streets and transplant caused by this situation. The imageContinue reading “Mass Isolation Project”
Formal Elements
With the whole country being in lockdown and only travelling for essential reasons due to the Coronavirus / COVID-19 outbreak, I knew my portfolio would be affected in the fact I wouldn’t be able to complete my initial theme and therefore, when I returned home back to Hull, I decided to photograph within and outsideContinue reading “Formal Elements”
Textures
Sorry for the in-activeness, I’ve been heavily overworked due to working on the front-line but I’ve got some time in my schedule to keep you all up to date with my portfolio plans starting with this entry. As COVID-19 has taken the world into a crazy pandemic resulting in only being allowed out for specificContinue reading “Textures”
Portrait Shoot 2
On Thursday 19th March, before the government announced a lockdown, my friend Courtney, who’s featured in my previous portraiture shoot, came up to Sheffield for the weekend and we felt it would be the perfect opportunity to compose another shoot, and therefore decided Peace and Winter Gardens would be the best location for the fact,Continue reading “Portrait Shoot 2”
Peace & Winter Gardens
Originally, the theme for my media project was wildlife, in which trips to both The Deep and Yorkshire Wildlife Park where in mind, however, after various tutorials with my lecturer, we came to an agreement that I should combine multiple themes into one final project, and therefore today, I headed out to produce images withinContinue reading “Peace & Winter Gardens”
Library
With the media project research and planning workshop deadline approaching, our lecturer felt like a trip to the library would be beneficial as a way of conducting artist research, who may help influence our media project and portfolio. As my initial idea was to focus my work on wildlife, I started looking up wildlife specialisedContinue reading “Library”
Darkroom
The ‘darkroom’ technique derives from the daguerreotype process invented by Louis Daguerre, and is a method in which entails the use of chemicals as a way of developing captured images from paper negatives. As paper negatives are severely sensitive to light meaning the exposure would be affected before the photo is even produced, when inContinue reading “Darkroom”
Postmodern media and appropriation
This weeks lecture and seminar turned our contextual attention to postmodern art forms and it’s appropriation. To put this term briefly, postmodern media and appropriation is how texts pay tribute to one another. Roland Barthes- Barthes is renowned for writing “Death of the Author” as a way of conveying the message that ‘originality was impossible”Continue reading “Postmodern media and appropriation”
Activism
Due to personal reasons, I was unable to attend this session, however was briefly informed as to what both the lecture and seminar were covering in terms of activism as well as caught up via the powerpoints uploaded onto Blackboard. What is Activism?: To put it briefly, the term ‘activism’ is an act of attemptingContinue reading “Activism”
