VISIONS & SOUNDS

(LO1) 1.1 Identify a subject for a photographic project. After the initial empowerment  sessions, which led up to this : The photographic project. This is the Subject who  I chose for the final  project. His name is : Bubbles. I'd thought of making my choice from a few friends, but due to unavailability and camera shyness this was not to be.  1.2 Carry out research for the project.                       I did research on a number of photographers for the project. These included : Martin Parr, Donato Di Campo and Andre kertez. Evidence of this can be found on the relevant labeled pages of unit 7.  Also as previously mentioned, in my preparation for : The photography project. I also consentrated on the empowerment project, this informed some of my decisions and approaches for : The Photographic project. To begin the Photographic project. I made the first 100  pictures of "Bubbles".  This was the beginning of 3 sessions. The total number of photographs to be made

MY GENRE is conceptual (constraint/restriction/experimental)photography and STREET - candid. Photographer 1) KALLIOPE AMORPHOUS Born in Providence, Rhode Island. KALLIOPE  attended high school in Rhoboth, Massachusetts. Coming from a extremely creative family. Upon grading she moved to New York city where she experimented with modelling, acting and performance poetry.  She eventually stumbled upon photography and taught herself about the subject. She began working exclusively with self - potrait in 2007. Her early self - Potraits focused on character studies, costuming and makeup. Her style developed into conceptual photography with an emphasis on picturalism and surrealism. She said that she gets pulled towards surrealism and experiental, because that's how her mind works, plus she like the distortion, deconstructionism and the experimental aspects of both, the the back and forth, the horrifying and beautiful. For her photographs she initially relied on in camera effects. In her,

These are a selection of the shots I made of individuals in the Richmond area near our college. I had a fun time stopping, conversing with, finding out about and making Potraits of people in the locality. I also found that the majority of people I approached agreed. I liked the variety of personalities and backgrounds. Two people nearly gave me their life history. Great day!

I've previously wrote about and showed photographs i've made for the empowerment portraits. This is a continuation. We were asked to capture three portraits of preferably someone we know in their environment. I asked a few friends who were unable to take part. So I then asked the local Barber who agreed. On going to make the photographs the next day. He said that his assistant Barber would have to be the subject. The assistant Barber obliged. Here is the outcome.  These are my first shared photographs using my Nikon D500 camera. I like results. These images were part of the process which led to the final intimate photography project. 

We were asked to produce a few shots at different focal lengths. In order to see the difference made at each focal length. Here are the results of this excercise.