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Second project in the Inside, Outside, In Between brief.
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Journeys
Walker Evans Walker Evans was an American photographer
during the 1920s – 50s. During 1938- 1941, he
took to taking photographs of people on the
subway without their knowing. He used a hidden
camera in his coat. Many of the subjects seem to
be looking straight into the camera, as if they were
posing for the photograph.
Christian Keenan I stumbled across this photograph on Google
Images but it has had a huge influence on my
project. Keenan took photographs of his two sons’
first train journey on their way to the Olympics.
In this project, I will be taking photos of both friends and strangers on public
transport, and walking. A journey is in between the place they’ve left and where
they are headed. I will have all the photos in black and white and try to recreate
the feeling that the subjects do not know they’re having their photograph taken.
Developmental: Ariane Iligan
Like Christian Keenan’s
photographs, I also stumbled
across Ariane Iligan’s photographs
of a carnival. She took
photographs of people on the
Horror Train as they re-emerged
from the ride. Iligan said she
wanted to ‘capture the emotion of
the scene in the frame’. I love this
photograph because of the motion
blur. It really changes the
photograph. It is no longer static,
but has movement to it. We can
see the fear and joy in the rider’s
faces.
For my developmental, I will re-take the photographs, but introduce a motion blur. I
want the people’s faces still to be recognisable but to have that movement in it also.
Final Outcomes: Li Hui Li Hui is a self taught photographer from China. She is also a sculptor using lights and
scaffolding in her installations. Below is one of Hui’s photographs from a set called
‘Hidden’. She has overlaid photographs of the environment/ landscapes onto people.
The people’s shapes blend in with the landscape behind.
Recently, I visited Arran in Scotland and took some landscape photographs. I will use my
motion blur journey photographs to overlay onto these landscape photographs, just as
Hui has.
Project Review
This is my second set of photographs for the Inside, Outside and In Between
brief. My first set of photographs worked really well. I was able to take many of the
photographs on an eight hour journey to Scotland. It was very had to conceal my
camera as it makes a really loud noise. In a few of the photographs, the subjects have
spotted the camera. When I went on London Transport to take a few more journey
photographs, I noticed that people noticed the camera but then pretended not to have
seen it and looked away. I really like the contrast and brightness of these images and I
think they worked really well.
My second set was inspired by a horror train photograph. I think my set of
images worked really well as I used a slow shutter speed to create the motion blur. It
was during the day when I re took those images so some turned out burnt out in some
areas. I think I fixed the problem however by changing the contrast.
I wanted to incorporate my landscape photographs from Scotland, I have
found a way to do this. Li Hui has become one of my favourite photographer as she uses
many different ideas to create some amazing artwork. I like my set of finial outcomes
due to the colours, contrast and interaction of the landscape photographs and the
journey images.
If I was to re-do my project, I would try to do the motion blur on the initial set of
images. I would also have taken photographs of the view from the train window to them
use as the background for the people on a journey photographs.