Eperiment: Reflections

In this experiment, I tried to create a layers in one photos through the concept of reflection.  

This photo shows how we can create frames inside a photos that don't match the original frame of the photo. This photo also looks at how subjects can be seen from two different points of view at one time, through photography.

I tried to add lots of layers in htis photo by using two reflective surfaces meaning it adds more depth to the photo. There are 3 layers in this photo; the faint outline of the building outside, the camera on the window glass and the camera in the mirror.

This photo creates layers which aren't obvious because there isn't a frame of the reflections. This makes it look like the camera is in the reflection. Really, the outline of the building is beyond the window and the camera is reflected on the glass window.

To take this experiment further, I wanted to really place myself into the mirror and so I had to think up ways I could do this. Eventually I came up with the idea to put a photograph onto the mirror to make it look like my face is in the thing the mirror reflects. Here are the places I wanted my face to go in:

Here is the photo of the mirror that I will put these photos in to:

 

I then edited these photos into different layers and put them together to make these images:

I chose the night sky becuase it develops further into space, just like a mirror. The mirror reflects space but it can also create more space as if it was a space itself. For example, a mirror against a wall makes it look as if the wall isn't really there but instead of it is the space of what is being reflected.

I chose the sea becuase people have different emotions when they look into a mirror, this is like the changing tide of the sea. People can have waves of happiness when they look in a mirror or they can drown in their sorrow.

 

I chose the television because when we look into a mirror, it is like we are seing ourselves in another place as if we are in two places at once, this is like if we saw ourselves on the television.

In this project, I looked at how we can be transported into another space using the mirror. I also looked at how we look into a mirror and the feelings we get when we look at ourselves in it. I liked this project because it made me think more about mirrors and the journies that we take when we look into a mirror emotionally and how we prepare for a journey using the mirror.

Mattias Klum

Mattias Klum is a Swedish Photographer who works for the National Geographic. He focuses on Natural history and cultural subjects.
One of his works was called a journey throught the rainforest where he walked throuhg a rainforest and took photos of the animals that he saw there.




I like this work because of the way he goes into a place not knowing what photos he is going to take and then getting really good shots of a wide variety of things. This is a really good concept of journeys that I would like to explore.

Another work of mattias Klum was a series of photos of lions:




I like this work because I like how we can view these animals without seeing them in real life, almost as if we have been transported to where they live by staying in our own home. This work has inspired me to do a project where I am transported into another place.

Lee Friedlander

Lee Friedlander is an American based photographer who was interested in the social landscapes of places. One of his works was called America by car. In this project, he took photos out of the car windows whilst he went on a journey through America.




I like this work becuase in most of the photos, not only is there the picture outside the window, there is also the picture in the wing mirror. This work gave me the idea for an exmperiment: to film the front window of a car and have the image in the rearview mirror aswell.
Another project that Lee did was called American 'social documentary.' In this project, Lee takes photos of TV's in motel rooms in America and the envirnment around them, also taking a photo of people then putting the photo of them into the telivision..




I like this work because it creates a contrast and a juxtaposition of the area and the person inside the television. It looks like the person has been transported to the television even though they are somewhere else, as if they can be in two places at once. I have taken from the work the idea of being transported to another place and so being in two places at once.

Planning

The theme is: Journies
Artist Research:

• Stephen Gill: Buried.
• William Kline:
• Robert Frank:
• Lee Friedlander: Journey through America.
• Mattias Klum-National Geographic photographer-Big Cats, Cobra, A journey through Sweden, Exploring the rainforest.
• John Blaustein- Places, The hidden canyon.
• Jeffrey Hinkle-Journey through nature: Waterfalls, Flowers, Coastal and Beach, Landscapes, It's alive, Birds of prey...
• Sarah Craig-4 Days in Hong Kong, Peveril Castle, Goyt Valley.
• David Wilson-Up hill and down dale: a photographers journey through wales.

Ideas:
At the start of this project, I had a completely different idea to what I would follow becuase I didn't think into journies deep enough. Once I started to look at what other artists had done with the concept of journies and me thinking it over, I dwelved into the idea of how we are transported through media and screens, as if we go on a journey by not even moving. This is the theme that I will concentrate on when doing the project. These are the themes of some ideas for me to follow:

• Transport through media to be in two places at once.
• Concentrating on the media when we watch it.
• Journeying into a mirror.