Water PhotographyI WILL BE PRESENTING SOME RESEARCH THAT I HAVE DISCOVERED ABOUT

CONTEMPORARY WATER PHOTOGRAPHY. I WILL ALSO BE SHOWING YOU SOME OF MY OLD WORK COMBINED WITH THE RESEARCH THAT I HAVE DONE.

ResearchAlfred-stiegliz landscapes

Alfred Stieglitz was born in the famous neighborhood of Hoboken,

New Jersey, during the year of 1864. He was the first son of a

German-Jewish couple whose names were Edward Stieglitz and

Hedwig Ann Werner. The photographer was feverishly devoted to his

creative mission and produced thousands of pictures in his lifetime,

This image shows a beautiful reflection on the ground which

caught my eye as my work is based on water. His work is also

mirrored witch I didn’t actually see at first when you first look at

it. Alfred was said to have been very jealous of the closeness

between the two twins and, as a result, spent much of his youth

wishing for a soul mate of his own.

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

Born on February 21st 1902, Ansel Adams was one of the greatest landscape

photographers of all time. As a young child he had aspirations of of becoming

a concert pianist, but soon set his sights on photography after a family holiday

to Yosemite National Park in 1916.

''Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.'' - Ansel

Adams

I find his work very inspirational due to the black and white contrast that bring

out the depth of the photograph. One of my favorite aspects about his images

is the fact they are landscape and tell such different perspectives of nature.

Fay Godwin

Fay Godwin

Her photographs, which captured the different moods and textures of

moors, forests and country trails with a remarkable sensitivity and lack

of sentimentality, were mostly produced in black and white, but with an

extraordinary tonal range.

Her work is very strong and simple, I love the diversity it creates when

looking through her work. Godwin uses the weather to her advantage

creating a dynamic look. The reflections on the water bring out the

foreground and bring a lot more depth to the whole image.

Hangulatos Refugium Forrás

I typed Hangulatos Refugium Forrás name

in and millions of images came up of the

sea and waves close up – I find his work

very interesting and calming. This is going

off topic a bit I know but each of the

images I have chosen show such beautiful

images I couldn’t resist.

I love images like this of the sea I had no

idea you could get so close to such detailed

work. As this is so hard to capture liv ing in the

u.k I will not be doing such fanatic images.

Hernrik Sorensen water

Henrik Sorensen, represented by Andrea Heberger, has already implemented Jab

Anstoetz, SAS, Hasselblad, Lichtenauer Mineralwasser and Kisters Underwater

campaigns. For a free work, the photographer living in Copenhagen recently invited

eleven actors to play with him and the camera under water. The result shows how the

wet element gives emotions such as freedom, sensuality or mystical new expression

forms and viewing angles.

Henrik is not actually English he is actually German. His work is amazing to me such

stories must come from each one of these images, some are couples and others are

soups of people plunged into water. I love this body of work it shows such memorizing

aspects of the human form.

Henrik is one of my main influences I will be using him throughout my work.

Some of my old work

So this was for an art project when I was doing my A-levels.

I took images of my close friend at the time Noah she is Dutch and

was perfect for this shoot. The reason I took images of her in the

shower, pool is so I could paint an image of her. I merged the first

photo with a boat so she looked like a mermaid floating. The

shower images were so I could get closer images of detailed

water, I also painted that on A1. I loved taking these images and

would love to reenact this in a different way with my new

influences. I know this is not of last year but I don’t seem to have

much on water from last year so I took some photos from my past

work in Portugal.

Some more of my old work

My Influence

I have been inspired by my own sister due to a project she is

covering for her university underwater

I recently modeled for her underwater with dresses on in Glossop baths. This was an interesting task as I had to wear silk dresses which almost made me drown due to the weight of the material no it does

not float, I enjoyed this in the end tho and I've seen some of the images and was thinking of doing a similar thing.

My work will be a combination of females and males modeling in

either a river or landscape background. I want to include - Ansel Adams and Hernrik Sorensen in my work and combine the two.

I think this could be a fantataic project to do.

Bibliography

https://www.gapyear.com/features/215359/ansel-adams-25-beautifully-nostalgic-photos - Ansel Adams

http://anseladams.com/-- Ansel Adams

https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/560487116101601787/ - Alfred Stieglitz

http://www.backstage360.com/alfred-stieglitz/ - Alfred Stieglitz

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1491013/Fay-Godwin.html-Fay Godwin

https://orwellwasright.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/fay-godwin-desolate-spaces/- Fay Godwin

https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/683491680917726335/- Hangulatos Refugium Forrás

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Hangulatos+Refugium+Forr%C3%A1s+water&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB715GB7

15&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlxMeBi8DTAhVkDcAKHeUBBS0Q_AUIBigB&biw=1910&

bih=977#imgdii=KWXUpg_ZvB1PBM:&imgrc=7vdQNyNmRIjYLM- -Hangulatos Refugium Forrás

https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/346495765066388067/- Hangulatos Refugium Forrás

https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/565061084479621520/- Hangulatos Refugium Forrás

http://www.redbox.de/rubrik/henrik-sorensen-underwater- Hernrik Sorensen water