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Final Project
Through several discussions we have analyzed the expressive possibilities of various approaches to creating images:
- stream of images (what Bradotti calls photography in excess) as a common contemporary approach.
- the traditional, photographic approach– the photographic image, roughly conceived as a single, independent, self-contained and self-sufficient image.
- small series– using haiku and later Gertrude Stein’s poems as models, we attempted to create ‘objects’ (understood as a set of perceptions).
This final project again invites you to create a long series of images to record/ depict/ represent/ narrate a passing or walk around the city.
In this second attempt shall be informed by our understanding of the importance of the single shot and its relation with others in the group. We can also better understand the values of smaller segments within the larger whole.
As a whole, you can think of your sequence as a continuum, a stream of images/thoughts. However, it will be composed of small moments which will constitute segments/ small chapters within the whole work. All these will allow us to create a richer, more varied and solid narrative.
This poem is a good example. Note how a recurrence of images (faces) conveys a sense diversity, how the gaze moves in the crowd, and in brief glimpses manages to capture the richness of each element it points us to.
In order to stimulate a dialogue here I am posting some of my own attempts. This way I hope to establish a conversation about our campus, the city and what we think about the nature of images today.
My final project:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/131069120@N04/sets/72157649462734034/
Hi Laura, as always you’re showing us again beautiful images that make the viewer bring into the place where you were in to take these pictures. I feel as if I were there in the forest walking slowly alone.
Line and color of 2252 is simply beautiful. It’s like a painting.
http://www.brandonlal.com/241-final
A description of the project is included on the page. Click on each image to see it in full screen.
Hi Brandon, I like your experiment with these images. I can feel atmospheres of each performance. I somehow can guess what kind of music each musician is playing. It is an interesting to see lights, audiences, different musicians and so on all together in one large image. With a way you combined different images to create one image, I think a musician’s movement and his or her expressions are emphasized efficiently. by the way my favorite picture is the last one.
I think that’s a very unique way to create this set of images and it looks awesome. love the colors.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/131208795@N03/sets/72157651874888191/
This is my photo set for the final project. I took these images on a walk from Wreck beach to the bus loop. Some of the background gives cues to where the images were taken yet I wanted to capture this very limited yet revealing view of my narrative. It encapsulates all the small details of parts of the natural environment that brought interest to me. I wanted to use these images to create a sense of mystery, most of the images show a very close up view of the object so the viewer cannot immediately tell if the wood is from a living tree or a dead tree, where it was taken and what the context was. I wanted to utilize this approach to allow the imagination of the viewer and the sounds and smells and senses they receive from the images to create their own experience.
Hi Simran, I see and feel what you were trying to tell through your images. The woods you’re describing here seem to be personified, so I can feel and smell their flesh and dry skin with colors and textures. A piece of log which has a red skin color looks like an abandoned body part. Some of trees look figurative and they look like beasts from the myth. I can see a human face in some trees here: the nose, mouth and eye even. I see things I wouldn’t have seen if you hadn’t shown us with these images.
Thanks Yoon! That’s part of the feeling I was trying to describe with my work, I’m glad it was successful!
my final project – ‘Lost in Vancouver’
https://www.flickr.com/photos/129316823@N04/sets/72157651817215566/
The method you’ve used in your project by taking photos of the reflects is such an interesting creative way of going about this project. They remind me of impressionist paintings like Monet and Renoir; especially the way they deal with light reflections and shadows. It’s also interesting because it kind of represents the grapheme to me in a different form, your unique view of these reflections and you as the photographer choosing them to create your images. I also understand that lost feeling that you’re trying to get at with the blurry lost unsure feeling that we as viewers receive from the reflections.
Hi Simran, Thanks for your comment! I was thinking how I could describe my project with words… And it seems like now I don’t need to explain about my works because I think your reply for my project is what I wanted to say. Thanks~~
Seems like there’s another Vancouver beneath the water surface. Buildings in image like 2866, 2820 became distorted and it reminds me of futuristic buildings designs that involves curves and irregular shapes.
Thanks for your comment~~ My images are also about how I felt when I witnessed development (modernizing) of the city. That was why I chose buildings for my works.
Yoon,
These are simply amazing. Intriguing and thought provoking. The mind wanders freely.
Thanks Kari! I missed images of ‘water’ when I was away from Vancouver. I wanted to see what was shown in water(the sea) in Vancouver when I came back. As you said in the class today, you were right about how I felt when I took these photos. I felt lost again in Vancouver when I came back, but I wasn’t angry or anxious anymore, I rather felt calm when these photos were taken.
Hi Brandon, I like your experiment with these images. I can feel atmospheres of each performance. I somehow can guess what kind of music each musician is playing. It is an interesting to see lights, audiences, different musicians and so on all together in one large image. With a way you combined different images to create one image, I think a musician’s movement and his or her expressions are emphasized efficiently. by the way my favorite picture is the last one.
The Final Dance~
Final Project link
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=8035a1f4016e68e!2745&authkey=!AGkos2oHKrLS_z0&ithint=folder%2cjpg
I took these photos at an abandoned beach around Kitsilano. My friend had just got back from a dance performance (hence the attire) and we decided to go to the beach for awhile so I could get pictures for my assignment. Instead of getting photos of the beach and things around me, I took pictures of her when she was practicing and walking around without her knowledge. I found an abandoned mirror around and I tried to implement that in my photos too.
Her red and gold attire are representive of the Hindu Goddess “Lakshmi” (The Goddess of Wealth and Prosperity), The red symbolizes creative activity (her dance) and the gold respresents “plenty”. The anklets she wears are called “ghungroos” are made up of small metallic bells that adds to the rhythm when she dances.
All these photos are candid. She had no idea I took these till after.
hello Sonail, wow you found a beautiful model for your works! I like colours and compositions of your photos. My favourite is the fourth picture which shows reflection of the model and beach in the mirror.
I agree with Yoon, I really like the fourth picture and it’s composition!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/p-gillin/sets/72157651908955315/
My final series. The objective was to blur the lines between monochrome and color, using color as subtly as possible without manipulation.
I think you’re project is incredibly successful in what you were trying to achieve. I find it interesting how in most of the images you have a very close up view of your subject. I believe there’s only two images that are shot from a further distance and was wondering if that’s just how it happened to be on if their placement was intentional?
I think all the lines you found for your project are all beautifully described here. your goal seems to be successful.
I also think that your goal is successful. The images are simple yet elegant. My favourite: 6008, 5808
The framing of the shots wasn’t a conscious choice, and looking back I wonder if the two wider ones are jarring or discontinuous.
Because of assignments for other classes I misses our final class and didn’t have much time to shoot I ended up (much as in the first attempt) missing the narrative element slightly, but still creating a series I’m satisfied with.
It’s encouraging to here that it was successful, because at the start of this course I felt myself to be struggling with color, so using it as I intended is a very satisfying development of skills.
Quite a few of the photos everyone has taken, for this series and in general, are truly beautiful and it’s been great to see so much of everyone’s work.
Hi everyone,
For my final project I tried to use the impact of TIME.
This is an intersection which I cross almost everyday at Kitsilano
http://www.mehdiartwork.com/VISA-241/Final-project/i-5LrsZcP/A
Hi Mehdi, I replayed your video more than ten times, and I think it is still interesting to watch it again.
1 https://instagram.com/p/1ZAd8ApeMw/
2 https://instagram.com/p/1ZAYphpeMk/
3 https://instagram.com/p/1ZASUapeMX/
4 https://instagram.com/p/1ZAJ8FJeMP/
5 https://instagram.com/p/1ZACucpeMI/
6 https://instagram.com/p/1Y_8l4JeL7/
7 https://instagram.com/p/1Y_0hqpeLp/
Here is my final project, named ‘New life’. I took this set of pictures because I would like to present the new born living things in the spring. Also, this means the beginning of the life cycle, which creates the feeling of hope. BTW, thank you for teaching us and we all enjoy it very much! 😉
Hi Harris, I see your point in the works. And I like to see continuity of green colour in all the images, which make me feel the sense of spring. My favourite is the fifth image because of the warm light I feel. I wish I could see more images of this series like 15 or more.
BTW, if anyone wants to see the whole series on one page, click on harris.x right beside of Harris’s photo.
Hi! Here is my final project. It’s from a hike on Bowen Island. Please let me know if the link doesn’t work.
http://1drv.ms/1IWJsgP
Hi Fanny, I feel as if you were taking us on a mysterious journey. I see the change of the light from the first image to the last one. And I can kind of read a story of your journey that started with an image of the sea and details of a boat and ended with an image of a figure and finally her feet. I like various textures and colours you captured and I also like different compositions you used to create these images.
I could smell the sea, the rust, and the wet forest. From the picture order I can imagine your trip ascending from the ocean to the land and up the hill/mountain. Also find the last image to be interesting and funny.
Your opening and closing images are fuckin sick
Idea is to see each set as an individual, but somehow all are related. Created each set in relations of line, tone, theme, etc. I included both recent and old images. Mostly shot in Vancouver and some in China. DSLR & iPhone.
https://flic.kr/s/aHsk6DrLfi
Hi Dayan, I thought I opened a kind of online magazine. I see what you were trying to achieve. When I open a set of image every time, I like to see each set has a similar composition, line, tone, theme, and etc as you explained. My favourite is the fifth set. I’d like to ask you why you chose these two images as a set.
Hi Yoon, at the beginning I wasn’t sure where to put these two images, then i thought that these two can be connected by a line ( ↗↘ ↗ ) and the colors are similar (white, grey, black). I also find that the left image is in some way “erotic” which arouse excitement and could be represent by the right image ↗ (rising). I’m not sure if I made it clear but, is that feeling of excitement, rising.
Thanks for your explanation~~ I thought the same thing. I like this set with the same reason you explained.
My Final Project – A journey through Railtown
https://www.flickr.com/photos/markstevensonphoto/sets/72157651938238645/
Bronze, metallic, steel, pipes, gravel, rust, brick stones, greyish and brownish. Feels very industrialized. Definitely a railtown.
wow, these images are beautifully described with compositions, patterns, textures, and lines. I think you’re really good at finding this kind of beauty with a camera.
Been admiring your work all semester – uncanny ability at capturing and exposing life in a manner all to your own. Great style man keep it up
Final Project – Magnificence in the Minutiae
http://kasshakk.tumblr.com/visafinalproject
If I could compare your images to a person, this person would be a thirteen year old girl who is so beautiful, elegant, pure, and hopeful. I ‘SEE’ spring.
This is my Final Project – Instead of a title however, I shall provide a poem
Of unsettled,
copper eroded
metallic aftertaste.
Do you dare look
beyond the blanketed shadows?
To dare.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/131269741@N03/sets/72157651871516226/with/16511808694/
Through this course I enjoyed to hear your comments about people’s works so much in our class.
and As for your final project, it looks amazing. With simple contrast with darkness and light / red and black, you created mysterious and dreamy images here. I think your goal seems to be very successful.
“Sprawl” featuring World Champion slack liner Alex Mason.
Tried to convey the intangible elements of a more surreal narrative with a single photo. Influences like Brooke Shaden played in to this as I experimented with slow shutter speeds and lighting. Her work is incredible – be sure to check some of it out.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9mn6w6evpl7zq78/AAB3b1npdbn-6v_aahR6Q6Gia?dl=0
FINAL ASSIGNMENT
https://www.dropbox.com/home/VISA%20241%20FINAL%20ASSIGNMENT%20JENNA%20HAMBROOK
Some people feel the rain… others just get wet.
Rain around the city.