Felicity Extended project
- 1. Extended Project Felicity Bearfoot-Fallon Bringing life into lifeless places When I walk home from the park, or go past the school playground, I am fascinated by how it can be extremely busy, to then being lifeless moments later. I want to explore how to bring this energy and life into places that are temporarily disremembered.
- 2. Starting Point; Gallery Visit: Saatchi Gallery I went to the Saatchi Gallery in London and found photographers and artists who based their work on some sort of movement, time or both. I compared the photos to the other forms of art such as drawings and paintings, to see the different concepts and forms of the work and how they related back to their subject.
- 3. Frederic DeLangle Artist Research 1 Frédéric Delangle, 1965, is a conceptual photographer based in France working with a large scale camera. In his project Nyctalope, meaning "to see the night", he made night-scapes at rural locations using the headlights of his car as a light source. In 2005 and 2006 he also photographed at night in the city of Ahmedabad, India. The shutter was open for periods of 5 to 10 minutes. In the city crowded with people and vehicles, it was the only moment to actually photograph the city itself. The following images come from the series Pourri, Nyctalope and Ahmedabad No Life Last Night. This artist travels to deserted, run down places and areas and captures them. His photographs provide us with a slight uneasiness as the places look very isolated and lonely. He rarely has people in his photographs to add to the loneliness and desertion, and if they are included, they are very concealed. I like his work as it is diverse and sinister, I have not seen an artist similar to him. He puts light into darkened, isolated places and brings life to the area through light.
- 5. Artist 1 Alexy Titarenko Alexey Titarenko received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Department of Cinematic and Photographic Art at Leningrad's Institute of Culture in 1983. He began taking photographs at the beginning of the 1970s, and in 1978 became a member of the well-known Leningrad photographic club Zerkalo, where he had his first solo exhibition (1978). Titarenko’s signature style is a washed out grayscale as everything in the Soviet Union seemed grey, reflecting the drabness in the water supply, from the country’s soul to its streets. And yet, Titarenko’s grey photos do not relfect ‘drabness’, but movement and the busyness of the streets. There is ghostliness in Titarenko’s photographs, a kind of impressionism that aims to make the cities uniquely his own. This is especially evident in his photos of Havana, in which he transforms a sundrenched city into an eerie one. The feeling of otherworldliness is sometimes compounded by the timescape quality of Titarenko’s photos, due to long exposures, and by a single dash of washed out color, usually the yellow of the light, achieved by partial tinting.
- 7. Test Shoot School playground at break Ghost like effect created by a slow shutter speed, similarly to Alex Titarenko. Movement created within the trees by a slow shutter speed and moving my hand slightly. For this test shoot, I wanted to experiment with long exposure and slow shutter speeds, to see how movement and time can bring life back into this specific lifeless place. I thought a good starting point was a children's playground. I had a slow shutter speed and moved forward slowly to have a moving blurry effect on the image.
- 8. Final Images My final images are successful because they show a foggy, ghost-like effect, conforming to the emptiness of what once was a lively place. The disillusioned effect also creates isolation within the images and they portray the movement within an empty playground, thus bringing life back into lifeless places.
- 9. Main Shoot 1 IMG_7646.JPG IMG_7647.JPG IMG_7648.JPG IMG_7649.JPG IMG_7650.JPG IMG_7651.JPG IMG_7652.JPG IMG_7653.JPG IMG_7654.JPG IMG_7655.JPG IMG_7656.JPG IMG_7657.JPG IMG_7658.JPG IMG_7659.JPG IMG_7661.JPG IMG_7662.JPG IMG_7663.JPG IMG_7664.JPG IMG_7665.JPG IMG_7666.JPG IMG_7694.JPG IMG_7695.JPG IMG_7696.JPG IMG_7697.JPG IMG_7706.JPG IMG_7708.JPG IMG_7710.JPG IMG_7711.JPG IMG_7712.JPG IMG_7713.JPG IMG_7714.JPG IMG_7715.JPG IMG_7716.JPG IMG_7717.JPG IMG_7718.JPG IMG_7719.JPG IMG_7720.JPG IMG_7724.JPG IMG_7725.JPG IMG_7726.JPG IMG_7667.JPG IMG_7668.JPG IMG_7669.JPG IMG_7670.JPG IMG_7671.JPG IMG_7672.JPG IMG_7673.JPG IMG_7674.JPG IMG_7675.JPG IMG_7676.JPG IMG_7677.JPG IMG_7678.JPG IMG_7679.JPG IMG_7680.JPG IMG_7681.JPG IMG_7687.JPG IMG_7688.JPG IMG_7691.JPG IMG_7692.JPG IMG_7693.JPG For my first main shoot, I wanted to bring more colour into the images. Children are fond and are attracted to bright colours, and the long exposure creates the possibility that it is the movement of the child playing. I created this effect by walking along the lines and shapes on the floor to establish some direction. I still wanted to keep the ghost-like, foggy effect to include the idea of isolation, as no children can be seen. Reflection I believe this shoot was successful as it portrays everything I was aiming for; the life of child playing, of which physically cannot be seen in the images, apart from the movement the child may of made. Next time I want to go to a public playground.
- 10. Final Images for shoot 1 *on mr guegan’s laptop*
- 11. Main shoot 2 For this shoot, I went out of school and to a public playground, where there was no guarantee there wouldn’t be anyone there. Using the movement of the equipment in the playground, and long exposure, I created movement without using people. I still liked the idea of incorporating colour and keeping the photographs bright. On some shots I had different shutter speeds to create different images that have used faster and slower movements. *contact sheets at school*
- 12. Final Images for shoot 2 *on laptop at school*