Urban Exploration

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Strange Shapes

Day of Exploring

Yet, another task..

STORIES: STREET

This task is designed to provide the following challenges:

• Exploring the potential of your camera (use of shutter speed, tripods, flash, macro, scene settings etc)
• Producing creative responses informed by a growing understanding of the role of photography
• Gaining confidence in photographing people
• Developing your own 'voice' through photography

The challenge:

To produce a set of nine images that explore the street in which you live and the people that occupy it.

3 Portraits:

• FAMILY MEMBER
• KNOWN PERSON
• UKNOWN PERSON

All three portraits should have similarities in style and purpose to work together as a set.

3 Views of your street:

• A view at night
• 2 Architectural views

3 images of 'something and nothing':

This is your opportunity to look for for connections and develop your sensitive observational skills. Potential subjects might be discarded objects, markings, spaces, structures... a common theme within these 3 images might be visual, conceptual, social comment...

Portaits

For my portraits, I decided to look at various styles of contemporary portraiture for ideas. This led me to come across the photographer Michael Itkoff. Part of his portfolio includes the idea of street portraits, using a white board behind the subject's profile to focus the attention on the face. This triggered the idea to use this, and here is my response. When taking the pictures, I felt a sense of Rineke Dijkstra influence, pausing slightly longer before taking the image; trying to create a sense of awkwardness to reveal the true portrait of the subject.

Something and Nothing

Views of your street

Part of the photography project called 'Stories', I was given the task of using my street as my canvas. My response for 'views of my street'

This set includes: A view at night and 2 architectural views