COLUMBIA ROAD: JOHANNA NEURATH

Looking online at one of my favorite websites: Dazed.com I found a photographer who creates very striking images with a plain and simple idea behind them. The photographer looks at a flower market and yet doesn't photograph the stalls of flowers but turns to the gutters to photographer them. These images could be interpreted as a question towards society and whether we need to evaluate what we find beautiful.
The images are very striking as the use of bright colours but the dark gloomy effect of the water show a very stark contrast. This means the colours pop and they become more intriguing.
I feel like the images can link to my coursework or Misplaced as they are in a misplaced area of land.
This has inspired me to look closer at what I'm photographing in future and look closer at the things we don't see. Looking back on these images I feel they look almost romantic in some way and change the way I think of them from when I first saw them.

Here are a few of her images:

Mixed Media

 Looking for more inspiration I decided to work on some of my own work. I flicked through some photography magazines and wanted to scan in some images. I found the more interesting images and scanned a few in. I was not sure what I wanted to do specifically but I wanted to edit the images in some way to make them different. I scanned in the images and opened them in Photoshop. I then continued to add objects and random things I could find to experiment further.

 This is when I started to experiment. I started with the images in Photoshop and just played around with the Adjustment features.

I wanted to play around with these features and see if I can create an image that was interesting. I played around with the scanned in images and found that the black and white effect made them look unrealistic. This then caused me to begin to think about whether we can create stories from just one image. I began by starting with one of the scanned in images with a simple black and white effect on it. 

This then lead me to think about colour and the way we use colour to tell stories. I had scanned in a toy gun and loved the idea of creating suspense and tension from just merging items together. This lead to a story beginning and a narrative that is made up. I kept adding images together to create a final image with multiple images on top to create this false world. I also used the black and white effect on all the images to give them a realistic look as if they were on the real image to start with. 

Here are some of the images I created: 

Misplaced- Claustrophobic thoughts

Claustrophobic thoughts is a project I developed from the word MISPLACED. I used my ideas of our personal thoughts being quite intrusive and secretive. This allowed me to play around with some images without using any inspiration from online. I used the idea of entrapment and being stuck in a place as inspiration and just wanted to play around with my ideas. I used different items of cloth and material to trap the model in. I used these and was not happy with the result here are the ones I was not happy with:

These images are the one that I didn't believe looked that good. I used various materials that ranged in thickness and create different effects. I liked the idea of them but it was not what I was intending. I continued to take images and looking through the 32 that I took I cancelled out the out of focus image and had to remove some due to them being cropped. I ended up with 3 solid final images. I really like how these images have turned out as they remind me of the photographer Arthur Tress who I mist have taken as inspiration unconsciously as they have quite an eerie effect and look like a nightmare similar to his work. I have edit the final images in Photoshop by using different effects and techniques. I used the black and white tool, the grain effect, I sharpened the images and adjusted simple things like brightness, contrast, exposure and other things of the same nature,: Here are the final images:

Photography Proposal

Photography proposal   Misplace/ment

Through daily life we see arrangement, organisation and order. One of the biggest ideas I wonder about is the opposite. What would life be like if we changed the order of things? What if you could begin to see what life would be like through a different set of eyes? We are so used to seeing order and neat arrangement that the misplacement of  items or objects causes a stir and this is when art can take place. I intend to develop and create a project based on this exact idea. I want to explore the way not only objects can be out of placed but the vast ways humans and animals can feel misplaced. i want to explore not only the well-known photographers but explore other mediums like art, history and literature. This will help me explore the way people interpret misplacement through both humans and objects. I want to look at photographers like Arthur Tress and Lee Jeffries but also more abstract like John Stezaker and Toni Meneguzzo. These photographers have inspired me to develop my own ideas and the biggest inspiration of the idea of reality vs imagination and a change of perception. I want to open up the ideas I already have and discover more during my future work. The word ‘misplace’ I feel will open up lots of ideas and allow me to explore photographers as it can be interpreted in many different ways.

Bibliography

Arthur Tress (2015) in Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Tress (Accessed: 3 November 2015).
Meneguzzo, T. (no date) Toni Meneguzzo. Available at: http://www.tonimeneguzzo.com/holy_cow.html (Accessed: 3 September 2015).
O’Hagan, S. (2014) John Stezaker: ‘Cutting a photograph can feel like cutting through flesh’. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/australia-culture-blog/2014/mar/27/john-stezaker-sydney-biennale (Accessed: 3 November 2015).
Thornhill, T. (2012) ‘Faces of the forgotten: How haunting portraits of homeless people changed photographer’s view forever’, Daily Mail, .
Citations, Quotes & Annotations

Arthur Tress (2015) in Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Tress (Accessed: 3 November 2015).
(Arthur Tress, 2015)
Meneguzzo, T. (no date) Toni Meneguzzo. Available at: http://www.tonimeneguzzo.com/holy_cow.html (Accessed: 3 September 2015).
(Meneguzzo, no date)
O’Hagan, S. (2014) John Stezaker: ‘Cutting a photograph can feel like cutting through flesh’. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/australia-culture-blog/2014/mar/27/john-stezaker-sydney-biennale (Accessed: 3 November 2015).
(O’Hagan, 2014)
Thornhill, T. (2012) ‘Faces of the forgotten: How haunting portraits of homeless people changed photographer’s view forever’, Daily Mail, . (Thornhill, 2012)