During this weeks seminar one of my class mates made a comment about a previous image from last term, explaining that this particular image would work in this project. Of course I would rather take new images rather than recycle old ones. But I wanted to get some ideas and inspiration from my own work, rather than looking at others. So going through my old work from Uni and also personal projects, colabs with other blog owners, I pulled our a selection of images I could use to inspire me with this project, different framing I could use etc. Also the style of some of the images below very slightly reminds me of Tellers work simply due to the slight fashion influence.
The above image was part of my first second year project where I was looking at movement when you put more than two frames together. This is a segment from that. I feel this image works due to the expression on her face, she seems very dazed, yet obviously would have been aware of the camera. Like Goldins work for example, she seems confident and unthreatened that the camera is there. This ties in with my deeper theme of expression in portraiture/ snapshot photography. If I was to use this image again I would edit it and make it better but for the research this wasn't needed.
This image I've shown a few times on the blog and this is also the image someone in my seminar group mentioned would work in this project. I'm not too sure, yet it links with the nude shots / underwear shots i've posted on here but I feel that this image is too posed or set up to link with my idea of snap shot photography and also due to the hidden face, i couldn't use it in a portraiture and emotional area. This image would probably not work for me in my exhibition.
The above image was taken on a shoot for a fashion blog I regularly photograph for - although this isn't one of the images for the blog. During the break I just continued to snap images and this was one that came up. This was a completely natural situation which I think shows within the frame - thus linking it with my theme. Again I'm not sure about the edit and tones of the image but this is something I could easily change with a bit of photoshop tweaking. There's a slight depth of field which I think makes this image more interesting and it is definitely something I want to use more in my photography.
The three similar images above were also for the fashion blog I help with. These are the images i thought have a very slight Teller quality about them - if anything they are probably more bold then his work in response to the tones. I put the two above as a triptych because this is something I could experiment with when it comes to the layout of my exhibition. I could start taking two very expressive portrait - yet snap shot- images of people and exhibit them as pairs. This could be something to consider.
This image was part of a personal project and is actually a self portrait. If I could link this image with any of the photographers I've researched it would have to be Larry Clark, simply due to the slight grittiness of the image and also the tones, black and white. This works with the idea of expression however not so much the snapshot side of it, the image has obviously been set up - or to me I see it in that way.
Similar to a previous image yet in black and white, with also a different crop. I prefer this image in black and white but I feel that the absence of colour takes away the natural feel to the image which I want to connote in my images.
