Showing posts with label seashore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seashore. Show all posts

Photographic Series

 
Developing my interest in photography, I completed a set of photographic series. Within these series I manipulated, layered and worked into my photographs.
 
The series featuring natural floral imagery, I experimented with tracing paper layers and cut outs in order to enhance particular areas and textures in the photographs. With left over 'cut outs',  I photographed the flowers through the circle 'gap' giving a blurred effect.
 
I created a series of photographic responses to the work of Eduardo Recife. Here I have used paints and stencils to layer and overlap the imagery. Typography has also been included in the outcomes. 
 
'Altering Reality' - a the trio of 'Oxford knitting' photographs. The Oxford knitting added a unique twist on the iconic surrounding in my local area, I was hugely excited to have come across this and have photographed and developed further by simplifying the Radcliffe Camera  and surrounding buildings.
 
 I also experimented with beach photography by working into the images with beach 'doodles' and quotations. In this silhouette image I added a stereotypical seaside quotation, the typography followed the direction of a wave. 

 



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The Seashore


This project titled 'The Seashore' was for my AS Level Fine Art exam. The concept for the project was to explore the beauty as well as pollution and destruction of  our coastline.
 
I set out exploring textures relating to our beaches and eventually after an investigation of Seung - Hwan Oh's work, I experimented with destruction and erosion techniques - including bleaching and burning/ bubbling with a heat gun. The heat gun experiment created an interesting distortion of my photographs which I moved forward with.
 
I took a trip to the National History Museum, Oxford, and close ups of rock patterns took my interest. So on top of the burnt images I added these 'contour' lines with both white pen ink and with the sewing machine. I left the excess string hanging from the images to add to the destruction element of the final piece.  
 

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