Colour blind

This is my first piece for uni subject DIS1103. It will be exhibited at Horse Bazaar Gallery in Melbourne on a giant projector.

This triptych is created from three photos I have taken at various points of my travels.

"a little moment of light and joy"
The first photo I took over summer. I love the effects of direct sunlight in photography. I like the movement of the little girl in the picture, she looks carefree and in her own world. It is a little moment of light and joy. We are all beings of light and joy on some level, we just need to believe this and find this within ourselves. This is what this photo means to me.

"reality confusion"
Similarly, the photo on the right features a little girl. This brings the viewer back to the real world with a light thump. The photo is realistic in colour unlike the other, and we can see a more detailed view of her in that moment. The other, in comparison now seems superficial and shallow. The photo on the right is more complex. What is she thinking? Who is she? Where is she from? What was happening in her life when this photo was taken? Questions arise. Life isn't simple. Confusion and hardship gets in the way of our little light-hearted childhood self prancing in the summer sun.

The central photo breaks these opposing yet similar photos up. It is about dreaming and philosophy. It is also lurid like the first.

Paper cuts

Emma Vanleese
I love this - the intricacy is amazing, all one-offs. I love the dialogue going on in this image. How has she created such character and conversation in one simple piece of white paper?

Andreas Kocks
On a larger scale than above (so less intricate)  however this is also an amazing work. This is done with lazer cutting. So basically this has been designed digitally, and then layered physically (in the real world). But the amount of insight needed to design something this spectacular and so tactile on just a computer is pretty impressive. This is all paper, but look how spontaneous and fluid it appears when displayed as an installation.

 Notice how controlled and disciplined the first work appears in comparison to the second. But ironically the second quite possibly involved more precise thinking and planning to create something so disorganised and spontaneous.

 On Monday I got up at the crack of dawn to catch the early morning light at the Abbottsford Convent. I experimented with the different manual settings on my camera, taking photos with my model Linden.

 I am interested in the unconventional framing of subjects in a photograph. This photo is an example of when I tried to do this.

I hardly ever direct my models. I like the idea of capturing a moment in time that is organic and real, not telling someone to look a certain way. Because I feel this is real life, and it is real life that I am interested in capturing in my work.

I rarely edit my photographs, not even cropping them.