Owen Roseblade

I've been emailing people for my placement, and one of my mates mentioned her brother who is a professional wedding photographer. I realised that I had seen some of his images before when looking at her wedding images. I emailed him and we agreed that we would meet and talk about placement!

He mainly focuses on wedding photography but also does some commercial stuff as well. From what I've seen so far his work looks creative and not stereotypical wedding photography so he will be really interesting to learn from.

http://www.roseblade.com

Veetacore

I did a shoot for a new band called Veetacore. Was really nice to get back into the studio and do some none uni related stuff. Was interesting to work with 'clients' instead of mates in the studio. Here's an image.

Its all about bats

I was talking to my mate about looking for a work placement and he told me about the photographer Kieran Dodds. I was interested in what I was being told about this photographer so looked him up. His work is really different to what I normally would be interested but I loved his photographed. I mainly looked at his work on bats which I found the most interesting.

This is one of the images that I liked the best because it captured the movement, textures and colours. I think because I never see bats this series caught my eye as it was something I had never really looked at before. http://www.kierandodds.com/

Damon Heath

While I was going through Lula magazine I wrote down all the photographers I liked the work of. Damon Heath was a name that came up a lot. I realised that I had seen his work before so was interesting to see that I had noticed him as a photographer before seeing him this time.

I like the creativity of the photo's in a studio setting. I've found it difficult to be creative in the studio as I get stuck with not having a back ground to work with but I think Heath makes good use of the space and frames his models well.

http://damonheath.com

Lula

I love the new issue of Lula magazine, so good. Found so many great photographers.

If in doubt throw it out....

After the talk by Laura Pannack I went onto the young photographers united site to see what other photographers were on the site. I found Julian Ward, who at first I wasn't really impressed by, his pictures were good but there was nothing that really stood out to me. This was until I saw the the series 'If in doubt throw it out'.

I like the simplicity of the images and the texture created by the rust. These were different to the rest of his work and stood out to me.

http://www.ypu.org/2007/page.php?m=photographers&s=map

New York

Miroslav Tichy...... In New York I went to the ICP and saw the exhibition on Tichy. At first I was really unimpressed with the exhibition. I thought the images were just a bit pervy and weird. But as I kept on look at them i started to really like them.

I loved the idea that Tichy used homemade camera's and developed all his own images on homemade enlargers. All the images were 'imperfect' in some way but to me this made them even more interesting as they had a depgth and texture. I loved how the paper was often ripped or dirty.

Alot of his images were also framed by home drawn frames. I thought this was really interesting and this added to the home made and'imperfect' feel. I enjoyed reading about the his work through the exhibition and I felt that I understood alot more about his work after reading.

I enjoyed his work so much that I bought his book.

We are animals

I heard about Ryan Mcginley a few months ago in a lecture and thought his work was really interesting. I've recently found his advertising campaign for wrangler, 'We are animals' and I like how different it is. I think its interesting that in a lot of the time images like the one below he doesn't even show the wrangler product but its more of an atmosphere that he is selling.

I think the images are eye catching and different and defiantly get the wrangler name remember because they are unusual and have sense of mystery.

Nollywood

For my essay I have been researching Bollywood, Hollywood and Nollywood. I found the photographer Pieter Hugo had done a series of images on Nollywood Horror. he uses alot of superstision and local myth. I looked through the series and thought they were interesting and differnt from any other photograohy I had seen. But I don't really like them. I found alot of it not nice to view. But I think for me what I like most about photography is how it can capture beauty. But I don't find these images beautiful. Although I do think they are cleaver and show Negerian film culture.

I read an article on him, I liked this quote when talking about this photograph:

"A famous western cinematic symbol upon a body totally unhindered by western decadence, representative of an African culture that intends to be influenced by the west but not so much that it loses touch with itself"

I like the quote becasue I think it shows how Nollywood intends to have its own identity rather than become a clone of Hollywood which I think would be assumed that it would as a natural progrestion. I think people in the west can assume that western culture is the 'correct' way to be and other cultures should be striving to become like the west. But i think this photograph shows how Negeia is developing in its own way and doesnt need to try and be a copy of Hollywood in order to appear correct.

So even though I don't particularly like the images, I think they are important.

www.peiterhugo.com

I like these...

I often go on Tumblr and look at photos of things I find inspiring, interesting or just different. Here are 2 I really liked. They both have layers of different images, kind of like a double exposure. This technique adds texture and depth to the images. I like it because even not all the detail in all the layers can be seen there is just more depth to the image.

I like how it makes the photographs a bit fussy and they don't seem perfectly in focus. I think this adds to the dreaminess of the photos and creates a mystical feel. I like how images of leaves and flowers have been layed over the portraits given a kind of natural feel to them.

Recently I've been interested in double exposures and I really want to start experimenting. These photos are a good reference point for me. I would like to also use leaves and people in my images. I think this could create really interesting patterns and shapes.