Light on materials

Just some nice light I've seen falling on the walls from windows or bulbs.

Tabletop Cityscapes

Some tabletop cityscapes I did using everyday objects and putting them out of focus to make them look like buildings. I challenge greatly accepted from my tutor.

Chenman Works 2003-2010

There wasn't a huge amount in this book that I liked apart from these images here, I really like the texture that has been made by the lace on the last images face though, could tie in well with my line portraits? However the texture of the pages in the book were amazing, matte sort of perforated paper giving a really nice feel to it.

The Smithsons Cyprien Gaillard

A small video of tower blocks in New Jersey along to the tune of The Smiths - Asleep. It was a really relaxing set up, sitting in a long dark cubicle with the video projected at one end and benches at the other. Combined with the lullaby like track, dark room and relaxed atmosphere it managed to make an eye sore really pleasant to look at and admire. What other ways could I create this effect?

Alex Hartley

I went to the Manchester Art gallery and saw these in the photography room, really cool idea. Not just haveing a shot of an out of focus subject; Hartley also places a piece of etched glass over the frame. This mean you have to stand back to get any idea of the subject, whereas if you go closer it just dissolves into tones. Again it leaves the viewer with alot to imagine and send the mind wandering, this last image I thought was a radiator or file cabinet but is actually a tower block.

Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski's portraits are similar to Bruckner's, they create a mystery behind the people. These however are the opposite, with darker hue to them its quite sinister, this makes you think 'are they dead? How did they die?', sort of like an orbituary post or a tragic story in a newspaper. The images with boxes beneath look like the house something to do with the person or could, again what is in it? Two ways of utilising out of focus portraits for positive or negative emotions.

Ulricke Bruckner Space For (Would you like to comment)

These portraits are all shot out of focus, giving them a bit of mystery and playfulness about them. It gives the viewer permission to imagine aswell, not being able to see the images properly youre forced to make up the details you can't see. The front cover has an extra sleeve of semi - transparent material like tracing paper letting the reader interact with the book; moving the cover back and forth so the image is out of focus and then more in focus. The pages in the book are a thicker type of slighter rough paper, this adds to the feel of haziness from the images. I may try this myself somehow, I love the playfulness, interaction and mystery surrounding the whole book.

This is interesting, something that doesnt look right but still correct enough to make you fall into the conciousness of the photographers vision.

Zed Nelson is one of my favourite photographers, again the rawness of the light really exposes the subjects vulnerability, should Miss Lincolnshire really look that miserable? Is David Tennant actually that old and human? Avedon made people's 'masks' disappear by probing them with psycologically testing questions, Nelson does it  without even opening his mouth.

David Shrigley Exhibtion with 2 of my life drawings on show. I really liked his stuff, looking into his mind and seeing what he thought about. It was really humorous aswell, not trying to make the drawings look good but making rather than thinking. I think I need to introduce more humor to my photography, a man tap dancing? Someone looking completely out of place in their surroundings? etc

Maurice Gimaldi, really like this stuff, the lines are fluid but have the smudges or powder left over from the medium used making it look water like and dry at the same time. I like that he doesnt have the proportions exactly right all the time aswell, theyre abstract and just moe interesting to look at.

Ciler, a graffiti artist from Mexico City. I love the biro work on the photographs, its almost like he's exposing what lies beneath the people. The fluidity and complexity really amazes me aswell, the last image has lines linking the faces together, I wonder if I could do that with a time lapse sort of image?

Images from the graffiti book 'Textura Dos, The street art of Buenes Aires' and a selection of ROA's work. Again the hair and textures here are what I really like and the fact that its black and white.