Film Shoot(s) Evaluation

In my film shoots I tried to incorporate light into my project, using flash to capture the reflective hi-vis jackets on police. Also showing light in inside areas such as the marry-go-round and the building reflecting onto the water. I chose to focus on light with film because they come out cleaner and more crisp, showing more detail in the photo than digital photography. I used Imran Ciesay's photography as inspiration in my film shoot, as I used a film point and shoot camera, and focused on capturing 3M (reflective material) on different characters in my photos.

Film Shoot 2: Final Images

Film Shoot 2: Best Selection

Film Shoot 2: Contact Sheet

Film Shoot (Final Images)

Film Shoot (Best Selection)

Film Shoot (Contact Sheet) - Shoot 1

Imran Ciesay (Images) Places + Faces

Imran Ciesay (Film Photographer) Places + Faces

Imran Ciesay is a London based film photographer who focuses on capturing famous hip-hop artists and people in the hip-hop industry as portraits. He currently runs a website and YouTube channel called 'Places Plus Faces' where Ciesay travels across the world, usually following different rappers, and captures the scenes and celebrities. Places + Faces demonstrates Imran Ciesay’s knack for capturing figures of the very upper tier of the hip hop world with their guards down, in candid, un-posed shots that show them as real people and not performers. Ciesay has also released a Zine called 'Places + Faces Vol. 1' which carries portraits of many artists in the music industry. I was initially drawn to Ciesay because of his interest in point and shoot photography as he mainly uses a Contax T2 compact camera. I found this very interesting because most people do not use point and shoot cameras anymore, and Ciesay has brought this back into fashion in the modern world.

Ideas (Evaluation)

Within  my project I believe that my aim was to focus on the editing of the photo rather than what the photo being taken was. The inverse has happened recently in society where film, polaroid, and analog functions of photography and technology for example vinyl's instead of downloading music have been used because they have a feeling of character and emotion instead of everything being done for you. In my project, I have tried to bring back the other components of photography, and almost what would've gone wrong in classic film photography and videography by editing them to look this way.

Rob Sheridan (Photos)

Rob Sheridan - Artist Research (Glitch Art)

Rob Sheridan (born October 11, 1979) is an American graphic designer, director, and photographer best known for his extensive work with the band Nine Inch Nails. I found Sheridan particularly interesting because he focuses his glitch art on mainly the videography-type glitching to look similar to old VHS images on television. He also uses a lot of portrait shots to edit which turned out very nice because the mouth or eyes are distorted in the image.

Rosa Menkman (Photos)

Glitch Art (Inspiration) - Rosa Menkman

Rosa Menkman (born Arnhem, 3 April 1983) is a Dutch art theorist, curator and visual artist specialising in glitch art and resolution theory. After she finished her Master's thesis, Menkman decided to research artists who use instabilities and errors in software as the basis for visual work. Music based upon software errors was already described as glitch music by, among others, Kim Cascone. Menkman broadened the artistic concept of glitch by also applying the term to the visual arts.

In her writings, Menkman has described the historical roots of glitch in art. According to her, the glitch 'method' already occurred on celluloid in the work of filmmaker Len Lye, in the video art of Nam June Paik and in the digital art of Cory Arcangel. Also, Menkman describes the various software bugs that are used for glitch art and outlines the work of contemporary glitch artists. Menkman herself is mentioned as glitch theorist in several academic publications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Menkman

Uneven (Evaluation)

For the 'Uneven' project, I chose to use glitch art to portray this style of photography. For glitch art, the user will have to essentially corrupt the image by either deleting or copy and pasting the set 'code' on the image to produce a glitchy photo, that looks almost like an old video camera. I have used the artist Rosa Menkman as inspiration for this project as she uses music software to create similar types of glitch art in her photos.

Glitch Art (Final Images)

Glitch Art: Uneven (Best Selection)

Glitch Art (Experimenting)

Glitch Art (Uneven Project)