Tutorial with Evan

• Be clear and reference my paragraphs such as the Thai law
• Add China 1991 
• England and Uk
• Colonial influence
• Fought for autonomy 
• People dissapearing
• Ai Wei Wei
• Perspective of oppression
• Be political or write about freedom within art
• Paradox concept of freedom
• John Loche
• Magnacarta 
• Constitution of Freedom
• George Orwell
• Freedom on the internet
• Privacy report
• Jean - Pail Sartre
• Age of enlightenment
• First printing press
• Social doctrine
• Teaching reading to control
• Gluttonburg press
• How art represents mental freedom?
• Nelson Mandella
• Art is the philosophical freedom
• The mind is free but the body isn't 

Academic Writing Notes

How to research and how to structure writing?

• Start writing ASAP
• Look at the library resource for help when it comes to academics
• Write what we care about 
• How to evaluate source material?
• C.R.A.P.
• It has to be about current events 
• Sources are crucial 
• Introduction 10% (400 - 500 words)
• Main body of text  80% (divided into paragraphs)
• Write down the questions we want answering 
• Write the main points within the paragraphs
• Reference each paragraph
• Conclusion 10% (ask the question again)
• It's about your point of view
• Have opinions backed up
• Phrasebank (look into)
• Essay is the biproduct of research
• Find and interview people
• Look at books on the subject

Writing a critical review

• Is it current?
• Is it fun?
• Is the subject relevant?

Harvard Reference

• Have bibliography at the end
• Same with quotes
• Give yourself a week to make the bibliography and reference page
• The Spanish flu and now

What is this essay about?

What will it discuss?

What is freedom?

What are others interpretations of freedom?

What was freedom considered to be in the past?

What were the great thinkers views of freedom?

How does it influence photography?

How do photographers portray freedom?

What are the benefits of freedom?

What are photographers opinions of freedom?

Writing on photographs

Jim Goldberg

Jim Goldberg is an American photographer whose work focuses on the neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside the mainstream population. In his work titles "Raised by Wolves" Goldberg documents the lives of young runaways  within California  who experiences abuse, violence and addiction.  These young people were given a voice and were made the centre of his photographs. These images were accompanied by handwritten texts by these subjects. What made this work so successful was the relationships he built with these people. This is something I wanted to try and explore within my own work. 

The following photographs are my handwritten experiments. I do prefer this way of working when compared to the digital edits. The handwritten text makes them more personal whereas the digital images are something that anyone can do. However, much like the digital edits I believe that these don't provide enough context. For this style of working to work I think that there needs to either be more text or one word. This is something that I am going to experiment with further. 

 

Digital text and image

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.

 

Pixel Abstraction

This collection of pixel experiments which I made in photoshop were made just to see if this was the direction which I wanted to go. Even though this was written down in my project proposal, I know that this is something that I need to move away from. I have explored this process in my last project and feel that this isn't as effective. The images within my last project were framed close up which allowed more information of that specific space to be captured. This then gave the pixilation process for colours and patterns to be made whereas these images look empty and makes you feel lost when looking at them. It removes anything which you could relate to. 

To progress further with my project I am going to experiment with overlaying text onto my images which is inspired by Hamish Fulton.

 

Photographer Inspirtations

 Thomas Joshua Cooper

Andreas Gursky

Fay Godwin

Jackie Ranken

Andrew S. Gray

Jonny Briggs

Ola Kolehmainen