36 Images

A motion sequence that has been inspired by my large family. The sequence documents the coming and going of people, since most of my family have moved out and have their own children the family has got quite large. The sequences also shows how the items go from unorganised to tidy then back unorganised this is also something that has been inspired after documenting my own home. I have used black and white to add an old vintage feel the photographs I did this for two reasons 1. because my props were vintage I felt b/w would work better. 2. I felt that having my images in b/w helped to show off the lighting and shadows within the different frames as I repeatdly increased the lighting to help portray the day from morning till evening. I used a standard lighting kit but the only kit I has access to didn't include the correct since cable for my camera therefor I used the lights as still lights but kept increasing the intensity of the lights.

Finalised Idea

I then decided to still use the studio space I had created and many of the props I had purchased for the shoot. I decided that 36 images weren't enough to show a full families journey from beginning to end, so I decided to still do a reception room but to portray the coming and going of families. I have a very big family myself and people are coming and going from my house all the time, when I think about home I think busy, loud and active. I feel though the images I have created it really portrays the life of my own home.

Initial Idea

My initial idea was to create a reception area of a house in a small studio, I bought different types of wallpapers that reflect time periods such as the 70s, 80s, 90s and present day. I wanted to use the same objects within my images but show the progression or people first moving into a house and then the owners growing old and having children and then them growing old together. I planned to do this by adding props to the reception area scene such as, cardboard boxes when they had first moved in, then when they have children I would add a pram, then following I would start to add toys and as they got older i would start to change the pictures on the walls to more family portrait shots, I would then add walking sticks and a zimmer frame for when they were old and finally I would strip some of the wall  paper and smash the picture frame and move most of the props from the scene, showing that the family no longer live there.

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Here are some of the image I created ;

I did not continue this idea after trying for a couple of days I felt it wasn't possible because of the small space I was working in and because the wall paper would not stay on the walls without pasting it on but as it wasn't my own property I wasn't able to do so. Which meant I had to use nails and pins which lefts air in the wallpaper and it didn't give the images justice. After then re assessing and trying the shoot without the wallpapers, it didn't have the same effect as the props did not portray the moving of ages. Thats when i decided to think again how I could mould and change my idea.

Brain Storming

36 images

- Have a narrative throughout the images.

- Show the movement of an object, maybe a shadow moving or a flower blooming.

- Travel around and photograph the same object but in different areas for example bedrooms, going and photographing 36 bedrooms and then looking at how they are reflect the person, yet even though you're photographing the same subject they are all very different.

- Go on an a day out or a walk and photograph the journey.

- Photograph a situation like spot motion movie, slowly adding and taking away objects.

Research

David Hockney

Composite Polaroids, a large number of images taken of one subjects and then places together as a collage creating a beautiful large scale image, that is broken up by the white edges of each individual polaroid image. This is a very creative way that I could use 36 images, I could take 36 images of one subjects focusing on only macro shots, then places them together as a collage creating one establishing shot.

 http://www.hockneypictures.com/home.php


Duane Michals

'Duane Michals is an American fine art photographer noted for his metaphysical imagery and for his “creative extension of the possibilities of the photographic medium.” His works are often times best understood (intentionally) by our unconscious mind, where we are able to relate and comprehend on a more emotional level.'

“When people ask me what I am, I tell them I’m the artist formally known as a photographer,” …  “I am an expressionist and by that I mean I’m not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.” – Duane Michals

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Diane Arbus

'This young squirt, with his strap falling down, an Arbus signifier for dishevelment and extreme emotion (see the provocative Girl in a Shiny Dress, N.Y.C. of 1967), with his preposterous lack of physical strength, is ripplingly physical, plausibly military, conceivably terrorist. He is ready to fight back; indeed, his stance itself is a challenge to this stranger he met only once, photographer Diane Arbus, to leave him be.

The boy spasms with frustration and impatience as Arbus moves around him, disorienting and trapping him with shot after shot, far more than he anticipated. (We see time unfold in the extant contact sheet.)'

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Summer Brief

‘36 Photographs of the same thing’

“The contact sheet, now rendered obsolete by digital photography, embodies much of the appeal of photography itself: the sense of time unfolding, a durable trace of movement through space, an apparent authentication of photography’s claims to transparent representation of reality.”

Magnum Contact Sheets

Kristen Lubben

Make 36 exposures of the same subject matter.

"It’s entirely up to you what the subject matter is, how long you take making the 36 exposures, whether you use film or digital, the format/lens and any other technical/creative decision."

The main requirement is that your final 36 images must be ready to present as a projectable ‘contact sheet.’ This must be as a jpeg file, 1920 by 1080 Max (images imported at 72 dpi)