Andreas Gursky is one of the most famous comtemporary art photographers. He was born in Germany in 1955. And studied under the Bechers at the Düsseldorf school in the 1980's, adopting their systematic approach to photography, creating regimented black and white prints. His large scale photographs are distinctive for their incisive and critical look at the effect of capitalism and globalisation on contemporary...
This series by Gail Albert Balaban titled 'Out my Window' captures views from her New York Apartment. Her work explores the gap between public and private life, what is seen and what is hidden. I am reminded of a quote from Hitchcock's Rear Window; “thats a secret private world you're looking into over there- people do a lot of things they cant explain in...
After my tutorial with Juneko and realising that my work can evolve in a way that isn't linear, I immediately knew I wanted to do a something similar to my initial ideas, of my flatmates doing their normal routines, because when you can't stop thinking about a shoot, there must be a reason for it. My final Outcomes: 1/60 f/4.5 ISO 400 Canon...
After looking into the work of Anne Laure Maison I chose to do a quick mock up of how my images could look together in a similar composition. After doing a trial I realised I needed many more images to create a composition that looks somewhat realistic as I didn't want any repetition. I now need to go back out and take more...
I decided to do another shoot of NUA Halls All Saints Green at night to capture the illuminated windows. My aim is to do a mock up of something I can achieve by creating a composition similar to that of Anne Laure Maison, as her work really stood out to me. I needed to get a rough idea about how many images I...
These images were taken using a 200mm lens from my kitchen, on the seventh floor of NUA halls All Saints Green, looking out across the street to the offices opposite us. I wanted to shoot at dusk/nightfall as I wanted the lights to be on enabling me to see inside and photograph. Two best outcomes: I liked this shoot as the location gave...
After my shoot of All Saints Green from the Travel Lodge and really liking my outcome of the images which encompass multiple windows, I found photographer Anne-Laure Maison. Anne-Laure Maison is a french photographer and artist who out of curiosity will visit homes of strangers and when invited to do so, will photograph them after visiting all the rooms. Sometimes she stands outside the house and observes the doors...
This shoot I wanted to take images from inside my flatmates bedrooms, with the intention that, post production, I would create a border around them to give the impression that the images had been taken through a key hole or a whole purposefully made to spy on the inhabitants. I got this idea from the film 'Rear Window' which I watched as research...
These images were taken using a 200mm lens, from across the road to NUA halls All Saints Green, in a travelodge fire escape. Particularly inspired by Japanese photographer shizuka Yokomizo, however I didn't want any engagement between the subject and the camera and myself, in the way that Yokomizo has eye contact with her subjects. With these images I still wanted to maintain...
Arne Svenson's controversial series Neighbours are all shot from his downtown Manhattan apartment looking through from his window into theirs. The series gained a lot of back lash from people who were photographed without their permission, and Svenson was sued by two of his neighbours who spotted images of their children among the subjects. However a court ruled that the images produced were defensible under the First...
A quick shoot of opportunity, I really liked the composition of these images, how it may be unclear as to how the image had been made. Purely done by reflection and taken by chance I don't think these images will be used anywhere as the colour balance isn't great, however I like the way you question the image; is it inside, is it...
For this shoot I again tried to take a different type of image, focusing more on suburban windows and views rather than the musky Todd Hido feel of photograph. Images 2282/2283 I tried to capture some of the window pane from my side into the image, to show another boundary between me and my subject, similar to Arne Svensons images which I researched....
