SamBenstead

 

Brief 4 Home Brief The dark side of Lincoln a home away from home

For my home brief I wanted to focus my effort on where I live now as opposed to my actual home

I’ve never really known my home city of Cambridge at night because I lived 20 minutes outside of Cambridge and don’t really get to see it at night when everyone is sleeping and because all the busses stop at 11pm I can’t really stay in the city at night. In this instance I’ve never really seen Cambridge at night as my home. I started looking at Francesco Pergolesi work in his home town which he choose to take all at night “Before its too late i collect small fragments of memories” what he means by this is that all of small businesses will soon go under and these picture will be all that’s left.

One aspect I looked at was Gregory Crewdsons work on dream house and how it was applied to what I was initially planning to do with my images. Crewdson created amazing images of people in a home and adapted the people to fit the scene the image of the dad separated from the child is very powerful because it evokes the modern idea of broken families in the 21^st century. It made me think about the idea of leaving home and that when a person leaves they are a little broken. “I’ve always been interested in the commonplace, in finding a sense of beauty and mystery in everyday life. I’ve always been interested in the psychological nature of picture,” This is one key aspect I am choosing to focus on in my pictures the idea of how we see and view our home and how others see it.

Martin Parr section think of England made me think about the patriotic side photography and how we view the people around us and our country I had planned initially to dabble with the idea of patriotism and national identity in relation to how people feel about their home country. “I wonder if the people in these images would have voted Brexit”. This idea made me think about the way we ourselves and how we feel about others and their belief in a system. What I am going for here is the idea that an image can change its meaning over time when the political climate changes the meaning of an image can change.

 

 

 

This First images reminds me of home because Cambridge has one very old famous lamppost called the reality checkpoint and seeing this old style lamppost really invoked the feeling of being at home.

 

The main reasoning behind this image was the lights Christmas always help people remember there home because most people have fond memories of home and Christmas.

 

This image of a street was taken for the fact that it has no significance, the reason for choosing a street like this is because my street I grew up on as a child also had no real significance.

 

This image really was taken because I really wanted to capture the city I live in surrounded by mist because on the way to school as a child my village was always surrounded by mist because of the fields of crops were always watered this image really reminded me of home.

 

 

Pubs have always had a special place in my family because for years my family owned a pub which was separated from any chain or brand whenever I’m in an independent pub it always reminds me of my childhood and how it was to know everyone by name in a pub.

 

In this image of a high street I was thinking back to Francesco Pergolesi and how he captured images of shops without brands and how the village I lived in didn’t have any major chain stores in till i was older and how a place can loss it identity if it loses its individuality.

 

Side by side comparison of images of Cambridge compared to Lincoln.

What I have done is look for features of Cambridge my home town in Lincoln. For instance, the pub right near to my house. Looks very similar to one here in Lincoln. I have begun to apply this to other images I took the street was chosen because it bears some resemblance to the street I lived on as a child it has the exact layout for the houses.

Books by MP

http://www.americanphotomag.com/interview-gregory-crewdson-mystery-everyday-life?image=1

http://www.francescopergolesi.com/?gallery=heroes

The inspiration for my found object brief was the industrial revolution/Victorian era buildings and architecture the idea for the image I create first (the image on the left) when I was looking for found objects in my loft I found two old shell casings which looked a lot like smoke stacks when placed together, the idea was taken from there to do an industrial set of images.

An idea I decided to keep was the idea I wanted my images to be very clean unlike at the time where the cities are shown as dirty unkempt places with smoke billowing into the air. At the time most photographers were taking pictures of family’s people such as Fredrick William Bitcliff whom thought out his life mostly took family portraits and large groups of people such as factory workers, The images taken were always very clean everyone dressed up and that’s what I want my images to be like a very clean dressed up version of each image. (examples below).

The image in the centre is angled differently to the images on either of the sides this is because I wanted the idea of light coming though the wheel of the sowing machine is the same way the light comes through a water wheel by a dock. A point I tried to make with the centre image is that the sowing machine is also from a similar era as the water wheel at which it represents. Very few photographers photographed the Victorian era as it was back then which is why if you search for images of how it looked back then you will see a lot of drawings and painting but very few images. The top picture is of the old radio.

 

Emily Blincoe took photos of objects in natural lighting to create neutral colours this insipid me because I really wanted a natural light effect without using natural light for here objects she took object of all the same colour to create an amazing organic photographer of flowers this was one idea I had.

 

“This project highlights items with the same hue arranged together for an inanimate posed snapshot. The item group topics could be sweets, plants, nuts, vegetables…anything.” This is a quote from Caris Cruz a photographer describing the work that I completely agree with he goes on to talk about the changing of the colours in the objects creating a sunburst feeling.

 

 

 

http://inspiringpieces.com/post/70528129592/photographs-of-objects-of-the-same-color

 

Sitting in a room the loud noises can be heard from the street outside, a large lorry with a flat bed load is outside carrying grey concreate to a building site a little way off in the distance. Men voices can be heard indistinguishable in the distance. The vehicle now reversing makes a loud beeping noise as it moves backwards the letters on the side can now be read www.borderbarriers.com delivering to you. A girl walks below she has brown hair a black jacket is worn over her jumper she hurry’s forward towards the university in the distance and goes out of sight. A man in a yellow hard hat and orange florescent jacket saunter’s down the path

The first image is a man jumping by Henri Carter Bresson

The image is in black and white and therefore uses no colour but I don’t think that it in anyway takes away from what the image is anyway because the colour would be dark and grey this image was taken in paris at Gare Saint Lazare train station just after it had stopped raining.The lighting in the image is brilliant because the cloudy sky means that the perfect reflection can be seen of the girl without a disturbance of brightness from the sun. The image here is probably one of the first examples of people waiting for and exact moment before taking a photograph. “There was a plank fence around some repairs behind the Gare Saint Lazare train station. I happened to be peeking through a gap in the fence with my camera at the moment the man jumped”. This images seems as if it were instantaneous and wasn’t planned. The subject in the images is blurred and un focused I feel that this really ads to the image because it allows you put yourself in the shoes of the man because at some point in our past we all jumped in a puddle when we were happy.

The second photo Apollo 11 crew members capture mankind’s first physical brush with the moon, July 1969.

The use of colour is really powerful here because the American flag is the only vibrant use for the image everything else is grey and black. The lighting technique used was very unique in this situation as the astronauts had no idea how the images were coming out as digital screens on cameras were so they shoot the image shortly after landing where the suns reflection of the earth shines on the moon giving off light. The camera controls used seem so be a hand held shot taken from the lander. This images is very powerful because it’s the first time anyone has stood on a surface that isn’t the earth. The man in the image had the weight of the world on his shoulders as he placed the flag in the moon.