Evaluating your work |
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Use the prompts below, along with the Bloom's Taxonomy for Photography resource, to help you structure a detailed, reflective account of any of your completed projects.
AO1:
Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
AO2:
Experiment with and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining work as it develops.
AO4:
Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating critical understanding, realising intentions and, where appropriate, making connections between visual, written, oral or other elements.
AO1:
Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
- Which artists have you researched during this project? How did you discover them? What have you learned from studying their work?
- What theme did you explore? What were your first thoughts about the theme? How did your ideas change about it as you developed your work?
- Did you address any of the Threshold Concepts? If so, which ones and what did you discover?
AO2:
Experiment with and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining work as it develops.
- Describe the experiments you have carried out with different media, techniques and processes. How have you chosen specific ways of working and materials in order to express your ideas?
- Explain the decisions you made about how to refine and develop your work. Be specific about each stage of the development process.
- What worked well? What did you find challenging? How did you develop your investigation? What changed along the way? What impact have these changes had on the quality of your responses?
AO4:
Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating critical understanding, realising intentions and, where appropriate, making connections between visual, written, oral or other elements.
- Describe your final outcome(s) for this project in some detail.
- What were you hoping to create? Did it work? How do you know? What were your success criteria?
- Do you think you have successfully explored the theme? Why/why not?
- What decisions did you make about how to display it? How have you researched various display strategies?
- What is personal about your work?
- What do you hope viewers will understand from looking at it?
- If you had more time, what else would you have liked to try?
Key words & phrases
Here are some words and phrases to help you evaluate your work. Evaluation is simply the process of explaining:
- your research about other artists' work and the ideas you have had
- your experiments and the way you have refined them
- the decisions you made along the way and how you have recorded your learning
- what you made, how you chose to display it and what it means
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AO1: Researching & generating ideas researched selected chose reviewed compared contrasted a range of a variety of decided responded appreciated imagined wondered considered |
AO2: Experimenting, refining & developing experimented played with explored learned how to... developed my skills in... watched online demos for... refined revised thought chose selected media processes techniques |
AO4: Resolving, presenting & evaluating presented mounted displayed resolved personal meaningful satisfied/pleased with reflected reviewed audience viewed understanding represented/presented outcomes |
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E.g.
I began this project by researching a variety of artists and photographers online whose work expressed the theme of X. I particularly responded to the work of X. His/Her images are imaginative and skilful and I was keen to explore how to... |
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I have explored a range of media, processes and techniques in this project including... I have refined my work in various ways. For example... I found the technique of X very challenging and it took me a long time and plenty of patience to make real progress. |
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I am pleased with my final outcomes because they represent how I feel about the theme of X. I have chosen to display them in a particular way because... If I had more time I would like to explore the theme of X in even more detail by... |
Example #1: Year 12
I began this unit by researching artists who worked with a range of methods and techniques to express the formal elements of photography - light, colour, texture, tone, pattern etc. I found that artists often would discard mid tones in order to emphasise contrast and would often work with abstraction to create a really graphic and defined final product such as Lazlo Moholy-Nagy and other artists particularly related to the Bauhaus. These artists helped me to understand the formal elements and how they could be utilised in order to enhance an image. Edward Weston was one of these artists; his use of tone and lighting articulates the shape and structure of his subjects. Although my earlier investigations began to shape my understanding of photography, I felt that I was still in the state where I saw photography as an art designed to be aesthetically appealing, rather than far deeper than that – an opinion that would change as I progressed.
The progression of the course brought with it the development of my idea and general understanding of photography. I began to think about contrast of ideas and how they could be represented in photography along with experimenting with a variety of other methods. I looked at Christian Boltanski’s work which inspired me in the direction of my project and, despite my final outcome appearing unrelated to my initial ideas, I felt it was a chain reaction and without my looking towards Boltanski’s art based on the holocaust, I wouldn’t have reached the same conclusion I did. Other artists such as the Boyle Family proved important and aided me in my biggest realisation of the unit – I overcame my belief that photography was purely about aesthetics and discovered the world of conceptual documentation and the presentation of ideas of a more scientific nature, represented through the medium of photography. It was this element of photography I wanted to explore and it is for this reason I was pleased with my progress through the unit. I went from little direction to a strong understanding as well as developing my opinions and understanding photography as an idea.
The first step on this front was exploring techniques, for example the cyanotype process. I looked at how to do it, how other people had perhaps done it differently and why they had done so. After documenting this, I created a few pages of research followed by my experimentation within the medium I was exploring. After each experiment I evaluated my work and explain why I selected the particular materials, how successful I felt my final result was and how I could have altered the experiment to produce different or better results. If I was still interested or intrigued by the technique I was exploring, I would look at alternative methods that could change the outcome. I wanted to take an idea and play with the possibilities and have the evidence of this in my sketchbook.
For my final outcome I was hoping to create a series of images documenting extracts from moments of my life over the course of a week. I took photographs looking straight up and straight down on the same spot. My choice of the moments to take the photographs was by chance. I would take one set of two every time I got a text message, for example. The randomness made for a more interesting selection because I wasn't looking for the best possible photographs. So, when I produced good photographs, there was something far more exciting about it. I took my work leading up to the final piece so it made sense to continue in this vein. I took the most important 44 sets and narrowed these down to a smaller selection. The theme of suburban areas had been central in my research and personal work. For example, the work of the Boyle Family influenced my decision to embrace chance and Taryn Simon's display strategies influenced the presentation of my work which was very precise and ordered. This project was the first successful outcome that demonstrated my critical understanding of documentary photography. The work reflected my interest in the environment that I live in and studying everyday objects and liminal places that we often overlook. I was pleased with the project. It was the first of my A Level course and I have learnt a lot from it about photography after converting from fine art at GCSE. I am excited for my next project as I felt that as my project progressed, it became better through detail and quality - I am aiming to achieve an even higher standard consistently through the rest of the course.
The progression of the course brought with it the development of my idea and general understanding of photography. I began to think about contrast of ideas and how they could be represented in photography along with experimenting with a variety of other methods. I looked at Christian Boltanski’s work which inspired me in the direction of my project and, despite my final outcome appearing unrelated to my initial ideas, I felt it was a chain reaction and without my looking towards Boltanski’s art based on the holocaust, I wouldn’t have reached the same conclusion I did. Other artists such as the Boyle Family proved important and aided me in my biggest realisation of the unit – I overcame my belief that photography was purely about aesthetics and discovered the world of conceptual documentation and the presentation of ideas of a more scientific nature, represented through the medium of photography. It was this element of photography I wanted to explore and it is for this reason I was pleased with my progress through the unit. I went from little direction to a strong understanding as well as developing my opinions and understanding photography as an idea.
The first step on this front was exploring techniques, for example the cyanotype process. I looked at how to do it, how other people had perhaps done it differently and why they had done so. After documenting this, I created a few pages of research followed by my experimentation within the medium I was exploring. After each experiment I evaluated my work and explain why I selected the particular materials, how successful I felt my final result was and how I could have altered the experiment to produce different or better results. If I was still interested or intrigued by the technique I was exploring, I would look at alternative methods that could change the outcome. I wanted to take an idea and play with the possibilities and have the evidence of this in my sketchbook.
For my final outcome I was hoping to create a series of images documenting extracts from moments of my life over the course of a week. I took photographs looking straight up and straight down on the same spot. My choice of the moments to take the photographs was by chance. I would take one set of two every time I got a text message, for example. The randomness made for a more interesting selection because I wasn't looking for the best possible photographs. So, when I produced good photographs, there was something far more exciting about it. I took my work leading up to the final piece so it made sense to continue in this vein. I took the most important 44 sets and narrowed these down to a smaller selection. The theme of suburban areas had been central in my research and personal work. For example, the work of the Boyle Family influenced my decision to embrace chance and Taryn Simon's display strategies influenced the presentation of my work which was very precise and ordered. This project was the first successful outcome that demonstrated my critical understanding of documentary photography. The work reflected my interest in the environment that I live in and studying everyday objects and liminal places that we often overlook. I was pleased with the project. It was the first of my A Level course and I have learnt a lot from it about photography after converting from fine art at GCSE. I am excited for my next project as I felt that as my project progressed, it became better through detail and quality - I am aiming to achieve an even higher standard consistently through the rest of the course.
Example #2: Year 13
I began this project by looking at the different exam questions. I was instantly drawn to the theme of The Built Environment because I felt I could create a lot of different images and that I could take inspiration from the architecture around me. I have always been interested in architecture so I have a good understanding of styles and genres of building design. I started a small mind map of different aspects of the built environment that interested - shadows, contrasting materials and shapes. I felt very confident that I could create some detailed and exciting photographs. I was already very interested in the work of Alexander Rodchenko but I had not looked at many of his photographs. I knew his graphic design and I really wanted to explore a new side of practice. The first photographers I looked at were Bernd and Hilla Becher, two German photographers who created typological studies of similar buildings, displaying them to show their slight differences. This approach is almost for educational purposes. This style of photography didn’t really interest me at the time but I like the idea behind creating a documentation of buildings around me.
I then went on to look at Andreas Gursky another German photographer who studied with Bernd and Hilla Becher. He would take photos and then assemble them together to make incredibly detailed, often panoramic images of the urban landscape. This approach interested me more so than the Becher photographs. I responded to this style of photography by shooting my school building and putting together the images as best I could. Responding to the work of Gursky made me understand his process and techniques a lot more and I felt I would be able to carry these skills into other parts of photography. I then looked at the brilliant work of Alexander Rodchenko. I really loved his photography and the way he set out to photograph buildings. By trying out all new angles and viewpoints he created photos that had never been seen before and it created very graphic and powerful images. I was very interested in the tones that have been created in Rodchenko's work and his natural ability to be able to capture very strong contrasts. On a day trip to central London I really set out to replicate Rodchenko’s ideas and techniques in my own photos. By crouching lower and getting right under the buildings I was able to create new and exciting angles. I felt very happy with these photographs and I feel I successfully transferred what I had learnt about Rodchenko and put it into practice in my work.
After Rodchenko and Gursky I explored the photography of Lewis Baltz. Looking at this really challenged my idea of architectural photography and the way he is able to highlight shape and tone and really create meaningful abstract photographs. I was focused on the way he was able to highlight and find beauty in the relationship between very normal and everyday parts of the California architecture. I tried to replicate this style for myself using my school building as the subject. Being a very new building there is a lot of clean and unspoiled edges and shapes around the school so I set out to create some Lewis Baltz style photos for myself. Looking at these different artists and photographers works gave me a nice overview of some of the existing built environment photos.
After looking at Lewis Baltz I explored some Instagram accounts that used this similar style to Lewis Baltz the way they would highlight small aspects of a buildings and create very beautiful and meaningful artworks from them. I thought it was very important to get a real range of different artist from different time periods so I could see the links they shared and how they inspired each other. I took at trip to The Photographers’ Gallery to see the David Lynch exhibit. His style was similar to Rodchenko’s in the way he experimented with different angles and attempted to highlight the contracting tones in his works I really liked these photos because of his radical compositions. By cropping parts of the image that I would not think to crop he creates very unusual and unexpected images. I was interested to see how I could take what I learnt from the David Lynch and apply it to my work.
After looking at all these approaches like typologies, minimalistic photos, and cutting up and changing photos I felt I had a lot to work from. I went on a school trip to Berlin with documenting the built environment in mind and using all these process and techniques I had looked at I created a vast photo series. It was the first time I had been to Berlin or any part of Germany so I felt it was important to show this in my work. This was an entirely new experience and I wanted to show how the buildings affect the people and what impact the new and old architecture has on the overall feel of Berlin as a city and how they work together. I started with some colour print photos of the train journey we took to get to our hostel. I wanted to capture some of these very first aspects I encountered and how they impacted me. The first few days I went for a more Bernd and Hilla Becher approach by documenting similar buildings I saw and creating a small typology of some of the buildings. The next place visited was the Jewish Museum designed by Daniel Libeskind that is a very radical and unconventional design. I found walking round this place that I was encountering amazing contrasts, edges and shapes. So I decided I would use a whole roll of black and white film so that I had a proper overview of the building and what impression it had on me. I set out to completely capture the feel of the building and take a lot of photos that could be transferred into some kind of book or large series of photos. I was very pleased when I finally got my photos printed as I felt I created a series of photos that not only work well individually and captured what I saw of the Jewish Museum but work well together.
After the Jewish Museum I visited many different art galleries and very different places and continued to use a large range of techniques and styles to create the best possible photos. When I got my photos back I realised I had a lot to work from and that I could create very many different outcomes. I started this process by re photographing them and creating some new compositions and outcomes using a app on the iphone, though I liked the outcomes I didn't think it was enough to work from and I moved away from the idea. I then looked at a book called A Tomato Project an independent graphic design book that used such an brilliant range of design styles and ways of displaying photographs. I really found looking at this book interesting and I took a lot of design inspiration from it. I went on to editing down these images to create some different compositions that used similar styles and linked together. I was very happy with how my idea were developing at this point and I was really thinking about how I can make some final outcomes and what to do next with my photos.
I went to see a graphic design talk with the German designer Mike Meire. This opened my eyes to his approach to graphic design. He is a very radical designer who was not at all afraid to take risks in his work and his use of text and colour really impressed me. He used a very minimal and clean designs. I really liked the way he would create a double page of images and then the page after put the titles of the images small in the corner. He liked to try and explore how he could change the perceptions of graphic design. For example his designs of the main economy magazine in Germany is not at all what you would think a economics magazine would look like all the pages are very spread out and didn't include much bulk information, graphs or charts in anyway. I tried to implement some but not all of these techniques as I felt it could add a lot more meaning into my work. I continued to look at some book designs from some of the most famous designers like David Carson that used a lot of typographics in his work and thought about how I could use text to emphasize some of the images meanings. I also looked at some of the Bauhaus designs these designs used a lot of lines and shapes to emphasize different parts of the designs. I felt I learnt a lot from looking at some famous graphic design and I needed to experiment with using these designs. I then looked at the book design of William Klein like Tokyo and Mo and how he made his photos bold and stand out using various techniques like spreading the photos across two pages and using very strong large pieces of text for the title. I feel I have really discovered some new ways of working looking at Klein's work and I have transferred these skills into my own graphics. Looking at all these designs I started making my own book as i felt it would be a great way of displaying lots of images and will look professional. I was hoping to create a book that fully showed all of my best photos in many different ways. I feel I did successfully achieve this and I am very happy with my results. If I was going to improve this book I would have many scanned some of the images to a higher quality so it would work a little better enlarged. I experimented with a very large range of design techniques like spreading across double pages, placing four images on a page to highlight the links with them and how the look together, keeping some pages blank to put the emphasis on the other page and displaying the images small in a row. All these have very different effects and work well in different ways and it is important to show a range of styles. I have sent off the book design to Blurb a book printing website so I am very excited to see what they look like in a real book quality.
I wanted to create as many different outcomes as possible and I felt one of them should be the photos edited to create completely new photos. Looking at the work of Olivo Barbieri I put a few photos into photoshop and using the polygon lasso tool I cut out sections of the photo and replaced them with simple flat colours. I choose the photos according to the negative spaces and what different structures I could cut out. I bought four small frames to put the photos in so they would look more professional. These pieces I feel link well together and I choose the colours compliment one another.
I have created three boards of images displayed unedited. The first is of all of my colour photos from the Hamburg Museum visually they are all very similar and I think they look very professional. I found ordering these photos the most important thing for this piece as I want the photos to work well together and how what I saw of the Hamburg Museum. The second is my photos of buildings in a typology each photo is a large distance apart this is to really easy to highlight the similarities and differences of the buildings. I really like this board and I like the way I have displayed my images and I feel I have created a successful response to the work to Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photographs. The last board I have created is only black and white photos that I feel were very effective and the compositions together have a nice flow to them. The images have been displayed very close together and this creates a more busy and complex feel to this board. Overall I am very pleased with these outcomes and I think they link very well to the ideas i have been exploring and relate to the theme of The Built Environment.
After creating a book and three image displayed I felt I needed to create some kind of changeable and moveable display so I began designing a fold out mini booklet of some of the best photos from the series. I started by editing down my images to get the very minimalist Lewis Baltz inspired images. I ordered the images making sure the images properly flow together and I chose a cover photo and a back page photo.
By sticking down the images with a 2 mm gap in the middle I created one side of the fold out book. I then folded the paper in a zigzag fold and stuck down the back images. I then applied this same techniques to three more collections of images two of my favorite colour images and one of my best photos from the Jewish Museum. I am very pleased with these images because of the versatility of the display it can be displayed as a small book, and two sided zigzag display and they can be placed on top of each other. This versatility really make these displays what they are and I am very happy with how they have come out.
I think if I had lots of funding and time it would be amazing to see these zigzag displays as massive 30 foot iron casted displays that the viewer could walk around and really get to experience properly. Much like a Daniel Libeskind style architectural structure that is very radical and graphic with sharp triangular shapes.
Overall I feel happy with the outcomes and journey of ideas of this project. I really enjoyed looking at different artists' work. I think the biggest influences on my work would be the work of Lewis Baltz and his photos of the architecture of California and the museums and galleries I visited in Berlin like the Jewish Museum designed by Daniel Libeskind. They really changed my perception of buildings and photography. I feel I have successfully experimented with different ideas and techniques throughout the course and created some exciting and informative responses that relate to the themes I have explored. I feel that looking at the Built Environment has changed my approach to all photography as well as architectural photography. I have began creating photos that achieve an effective balance of minimal style and information, whether it is in the composition choice or the difference in lines and tones.
I then went on to look at Andreas Gursky another German photographer who studied with Bernd and Hilla Becher. He would take photos and then assemble them together to make incredibly detailed, often panoramic images of the urban landscape. This approach interested me more so than the Becher photographs. I responded to this style of photography by shooting my school building and putting together the images as best I could. Responding to the work of Gursky made me understand his process and techniques a lot more and I felt I would be able to carry these skills into other parts of photography. I then looked at the brilliant work of Alexander Rodchenko. I really loved his photography and the way he set out to photograph buildings. By trying out all new angles and viewpoints he created photos that had never been seen before and it created very graphic and powerful images. I was very interested in the tones that have been created in Rodchenko's work and his natural ability to be able to capture very strong contrasts. On a day trip to central London I really set out to replicate Rodchenko’s ideas and techniques in my own photos. By crouching lower and getting right under the buildings I was able to create new and exciting angles. I felt very happy with these photographs and I feel I successfully transferred what I had learnt about Rodchenko and put it into practice in my work.
After Rodchenko and Gursky I explored the photography of Lewis Baltz. Looking at this really challenged my idea of architectural photography and the way he is able to highlight shape and tone and really create meaningful abstract photographs. I was focused on the way he was able to highlight and find beauty in the relationship between very normal and everyday parts of the California architecture. I tried to replicate this style for myself using my school building as the subject. Being a very new building there is a lot of clean and unspoiled edges and shapes around the school so I set out to create some Lewis Baltz style photos for myself. Looking at these different artists and photographers works gave me a nice overview of some of the existing built environment photos.
After looking at Lewis Baltz I explored some Instagram accounts that used this similar style to Lewis Baltz the way they would highlight small aspects of a buildings and create very beautiful and meaningful artworks from them. I thought it was very important to get a real range of different artist from different time periods so I could see the links they shared and how they inspired each other. I took at trip to The Photographers’ Gallery to see the David Lynch exhibit. His style was similar to Rodchenko’s in the way he experimented with different angles and attempted to highlight the contracting tones in his works I really liked these photos because of his radical compositions. By cropping parts of the image that I would not think to crop he creates very unusual and unexpected images. I was interested to see how I could take what I learnt from the David Lynch and apply it to my work.
After looking at all these approaches like typologies, minimalistic photos, and cutting up and changing photos I felt I had a lot to work from. I went on a school trip to Berlin with documenting the built environment in mind and using all these process and techniques I had looked at I created a vast photo series. It was the first time I had been to Berlin or any part of Germany so I felt it was important to show this in my work. This was an entirely new experience and I wanted to show how the buildings affect the people and what impact the new and old architecture has on the overall feel of Berlin as a city and how they work together. I started with some colour print photos of the train journey we took to get to our hostel. I wanted to capture some of these very first aspects I encountered and how they impacted me. The first few days I went for a more Bernd and Hilla Becher approach by documenting similar buildings I saw and creating a small typology of some of the buildings. The next place visited was the Jewish Museum designed by Daniel Libeskind that is a very radical and unconventional design. I found walking round this place that I was encountering amazing contrasts, edges and shapes. So I decided I would use a whole roll of black and white film so that I had a proper overview of the building and what impression it had on me. I set out to completely capture the feel of the building and take a lot of photos that could be transferred into some kind of book or large series of photos. I was very pleased when I finally got my photos printed as I felt I created a series of photos that not only work well individually and captured what I saw of the Jewish Museum but work well together.
After the Jewish Museum I visited many different art galleries and very different places and continued to use a large range of techniques and styles to create the best possible photos. When I got my photos back I realised I had a lot to work from and that I could create very many different outcomes. I started this process by re photographing them and creating some new compositions and outcomes using a app on the iphone, though I liked the outcomes I didn't think it was enough to work from and I moved away from the idea. I then looked at a book called A Tomato Project an independent graphic design book that used such an brilliant range of design styles and ways of displaying photographs. I really found looking at this book interesting and I took a lot of design inspiration from it. I went on to editing down these images to create some different compositions that used similar styles and linked together. I was very happy with how my idea were developing at this point and I was really thinking about how I can make some final outcomes and what to do next with my photos.
I went to see a graphic design talk with the German designer Mike Meire. This opened my eyes to his approach to graphic design. He is a very radical designer who was not at all afraid to take risks in his work and his use of text and colour really impressed me. He used a very minimal and clean designs. I really liked the way he would create a double page of images and then the page after put the titles of the images small in the corner. He liked to try and explore how he could change the perceptions of graphic design. For example his designs of the main economy magazine in Germany is not at all what you would think a economics magazine would look like all the pages are very spread out and didn't include much bulk information, graphs or charts in anyway. I tried to implement some but not all of these techniques as I felt it could add a lot more meaning into my work. I continued to look at some book designs from some of the most famous designers like David Carson that used a lot of typographics in his work and thought about how I could use text to emphasize some of the images meanings. I also looked at some of the Bauhaus designs these designs used a lot of lines and shapes to emphasize different parts of the designs. I felt I learnt a lot from looking at some famous graphic design and I needed to experiment with using these designs. I then looked at the book design of William Klein like Tokyo and Mo and how he made his photos bold and stand out using various techniques like spreading the photos across two pages and using very strong large pieces of text for the title. I feel I have really discovered some new ways of working looking at Klein's work and I have transferred these skills into my own graphics. Looking at all these designs I started making my own book as i felt it would be a great way of displaying lots of images and will look professional. I was hoping to create a book that fully showed all of my best photos in many different ways. I feel I did successfully achieve this and I am very happy with my results. If I was going to improve this book I would have many scanned some of the images to a higher quality so it would work a little better enlarged. I experimented with a very large range of design techniques like spreading across double pages, placing four images on a page to highlight the links with them and how the look together, keeping some pages blank to put the emphasis on the other page and displaying the images small in a row. All these have very different effects and work well in different ways and it is important to show a range of styles. I have sent off the book design to Blurb a book printing website so I am very excited to see what they look like in a real book quality.
I wanted to create as many different outcomes as possible and I felt one of them should be the photos edited to create completely new photos. Looking at the work of Olivo Barbieri I put a few photos into photoshop and using the polygon lasso tool I cut out sections of the photo and replaced them with simple flat colours. I choose the photos according to the negative spaces and what different structures I could cut out. I bought four small frames to put the photos in so they would look more professional. These pieces I feel link well together and I choose the colours compliment one another.
I have created three boards of images displayed unedited. The first is of all of my colour photos from the Hamburg Museum visually they are all very similar and I think they look very professional. I found ordering these photos the most important thing for this piece as I want the photos to work well together and how what I saw of the Hamburg Museum. The second is my photos of buildings in a typology each photo is a large distance apart this is to really easy to highlight the similarities and differences of the buildings. I really like this board and I like the way I have displayed my images and I feel I have created a successful response to the work to Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photographs. The last board I have created is only black and white photos that I feel were very effective and the compositions together have a nice flow to them. The images have been displayed very close together and this creates a more busy and complex feel to this board. Overall I am very pleased with these outcomes and I think they link very well to the ideas i have been exploring and relate to the theme of The Built Environment.
After creating a book and three image displayed I felt I needed to create some kind of changeable and moveable display so I began designing a fold out mini booklet of some of the best photos from the series. I started by editing down my images to get the very minimalist Lewis Baltz inspired images. I ordered the images making sure the images properly flow together and I chose a cover photo and a back page photo.
By sticking down the images with a 2 mm gap in the middle I created one side of the fold out book. I then folded the paper in a zigzag fold and stuck down the back images. I then applied this same techniques to three more collections of images two of my favorite colour images and one of my best photos from the Jewish Museum. I am very pleased with these images because of the versatility of the display it can be displayed as a small book, and two sided zigzag display and they can be placed on top of each other. This versatility really make these displays what they are and I am very happy with how they have come out.
I think if I had lots of funding and time it would be amazing to see these zigzag displays as massive 30 foot iron casted displays that the viewer could walk around and really get to experience properly. Much like a Daniel Libeskind style architectural structure that is very radical and graphic with sharp triangular shapes.
Overall I feel happy with the outcomes and journey of ideas of this project. I really enjoyed looking at different artists' work. I think the biggest influences on my work would be the work of Lewis Baltz and his photos of the architecture of California and the museums and galleries I visited in Berlin like the Jewish Museum designed by Daniel Libeskind. They really changed my perception of buildings and photography. I feel I have successfully experimented with different ideas and techniques throughout the course and created some exciting and informative responses that relate to the themes I have explored. I feel that looking at the Built Environment has changed my approach to all photography as well as architectural photography. I have began creating photos that achieve an effective balance of minimal style and information, whether it is in the composition choice or the difference in lines and tones.