Falmouth at it’s Best!
Photos that I took on my new small compact camera that has for lenses built in. The Quality is not the best but the effect of the 4 frames looks great.
Me Messing Around! Just a Practice round. Nothing special but seeing if I could do it :) Enjoy!
Drive-By-Shooting
Natural Light (C) India Pocock 2012
A Negative Scanner for my Birthday and just a random Negative to try it out… conclusion? Not too Shabby :)
Lent: Day 2
As I am now walking to and from uni I get to see little things..
I found this Broken Heart Leaf on the path as I was walking home. I can not believe I nearly walked straight past it. I picked it up and safely shut it in my note book before sticking it in my book of random diary entries and pictures when I got home.
Lent
It’s this time of year again where I attempt to give something up but normally fail miserably. This year I have spiced it up a little and not only decided to give up driving to uni for 40 days but also take a photo once a day of what is going on around me or makes me smile.
Day One
In everyday life I feel as if I am being judged by my age and the fact that I am a student. I am told that I am dodging a working a life and earning a living and instead I am ‘scrounging’ off the government and spending it on alcohol. So in reference to this, I want to make images that prove this stereo type true. I want to make my photographs raw and exposed with a ‘snapshot’ aesthetic. I want to experiment with using basic disposable cameras and frightening flash. I do not want my images to be perfectly composed as I feel I do that a lot in my own work. I want to be spontaneous and daring as that is a side of photography that I have been too scared to experiment with.
The work of Nan Goldin has been the most inspiring throughout my initial research. Goldin uses artificial and available light in her work which can make her images atmospheric and unnerving. In her collection, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Goldin’s images a literately snapshot’s into her memories. She knows all her subjects that she photographs and I wonder if that makes a difference to how the subject reacts to the camera. Some photos are blurry and slightly off in composition but I quite like that about them as I normally shoot in a conforming manner. Goldin has a mix of people and portraits in her work along with rooms. In The Other Side Nan Goldin says, right at the beginning, that, ‘This book is about beauty. And about the love for my friends.’ The collection is about her friends who were drag queens and their side of beauty. Some of the images are shot in black and white, as well as colour, which would be interesting to see how each medium reacts depending on the subject; will it make it more radical if it was in colour or more subtle when shot in black and white?
A young photographer, whose work stood out in the Elle Magazine, was Ryan McGinley’s. Even though his work is not focused on the ‘Youth of Today’, his models are young and seem experimental and willing to be photographed in interesting situations that are sometimes associated with students. His photos are a little more staged than Goldin’s but the colours within his work are incredible. McGinley looks at a lot of body and form in his work which could work within my own work as it is in your late teens that people start to accept their body as it’s fully developed and not be so conscious. There is an air of confidence and fun within his work and I would like to bring that into mine.
Tom Wood is my final photographer who has inspired me with his Looking for Love images. The photographs are taken in a club and represent how people go about looking for a ‘partner’. The images are quite fun but unnerving as well as their are images of rejection.
