Hamish Fulton
Hamish Fulton is an English walking artist who translates his walks into a variety of media such as, photography, illustrations, and wall texts. Fulton argues that "walking is an artform in it's own right". He was recommended to me by my tutor during my critique when talking about how to lay my text onto my images. By placing carefully chosen words over his photographs he is trying to make you feel the things he felt at that time, whereas other photographers want to show you what that particular space looked like. This is something I want to try an experiment with. I want to carefully choose what words I put on top of my images. I want the text to provide context as to what I am photographing.
This collection of text edits were inspired by Hamish Fulton and were made my taking aspects of my notes from Scotland and placing them over my photographs in Photoshop. Even though I had a clear intention with this experiment, I know that these images aren't quite right. By choosing to pull out specific words from my notes I feel like I have created a generic inspirational image which could be found on Pinterest. They even remind me of advertisements which you would see on poster boards. This is possible due to the style of font I used and possibly the words themselves. These words take away from the photograph and can contradict what it is I am photographing which is freedom.
To develop further I will experiment with reducing the text to one word. I will also experiment with physically writing these words onto a photograph which is inspired by Jim Goldberg.
I also wanted to experiment with place and while imagery but these didn't improve or develop this technique any further.
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