'Long Time Dead'
My project is a study of a graveyard and a comment on the fact we are a long time dead.
My initial landscape concept consisted of a project covering how I felt about missing my son, using the environment of play areas that was delivered for the interim but failed to really work.
Starting over again I found a new concept and progressed that, 'Long time dead' images that portray the environment into which we all eventually go. Shooting an old, yet still maintained graveyard to show the way the environment eventually consumes and covers us. This shows the effects of time and the stillness and sombre lifeless mood of the location. I was interested to include old tress that grew from the soil that contained the bodies, as well as the aged gravestones.
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| 'Long time dead' contact sheet |
I've always been fascinated with death and graveyards and I found two photographers that inspired me to seek my own view on this subject: (David Ashman and Amanda Norman)
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| David Ashman http://www.davidashmanphotography.com/viewphotographsEternalView-19thCenturyGravestones.html 24th November 2011 |
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| David Ashman http://www.davidashmanphotography.com/viewphotographsEternalView-19thCenturyGravestones.html 24th November 2011 |
Amanda Norman has a series of over forty images in a series she describes as "Gardens of Death". She also has images on her blog.
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| Amanda Norman Images care of http://www.amandanorman.com/shop/index.html 24th November 2011 |
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| Amanda Norman Images care of http://www.amandanorman.com/shop/index.html 24th November 2011 |
Environment Project - Cityscape
My project is the study of the underside of an urban structure, highlighting the impact these structures have on our lives both visually and physically.
'Beneath an Urban Structure'
I wanted a very concrete and urban structure and I wanted to capture the underside, the space that exists to support and create the structure. The underside is utilitarian and I liked the idea of it carrying and supporting the cities activities but mostly remaining unstudied. Not beautiful but man-made forceful and solid. I wanted very little sky and I wanted the city to fill the frame, to show the environmental impact on the landscape that man has created. It envelopes and consumes and covers nature with concrete and steel.
Influences for these images are the following photographers:
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| Erza Stroller; http://www.esto.com/ezrastoller.aspx 21st Nov 2011 |
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Also Hans-Christian Schink http://www.hc-schink.de/ 21st Nov 2011; "The artist first commanded worldwide attention with the series “Verkehrsprojekte Deutsche Einheit” (“Traffic Projects German Unity”, 1995-2003).
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Gabriele Brasilico; http://www.gabrielebasilico.com/ 21st Nov 2011 "Born in August of 1983, Gabriele lives in Milan and carries out a careful and meticulous research on analog photography. He usually represents his views with a Rolleiflex or a Sinar 4x5." http://www.gabrielebasilico.com/ |
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