Brief 2 – Process – Bethany Wood (16606888)

The Found object

Graham Fulton

Looking at Graham Fulton’s collection ‘Kitchen’, I noticed that he had made had taken intriguing and interesting close ups of a variety of spills and messes in his kitchen on a variety of surfaces, for example, on the bottom of a saucepan. This meant he was looking for texture to photograph, and because of this, the concepts of light and dark were important, and different lighting would cause different shadows to occur to highlight and conceal areas of the texture. A few photos from his collection are below

I realized just how important it was to light my composition accordingly to create a desirable texture and subsequently more depth to my image. Using the ideas from above, I intend on using light in order to create this depth.

Lorenzo Vitturi

Vitturi’s ‘Dalston Academy’ collection is said to represent the beauty of the Ridley Road Market in East London, Vitturi is said to have recognized the market as a unique place where “different cultures merge together in a celebration of life, diversity and unstoppable energy”. In this collection’s work, Vitturi used the idea of decay and deconstruction to his advantage, as he often made sculptures using exotic fruits, leaving them to rot before photographing them.

Vitturi uses typically mundane overlooked items and gives them a new lease of life, highlighting the beauty among the dilapidated. The us of the traffic cones is refreshingly familiar, as they are obstructions many encounter in their lives, even if it’s just in passing, but in this scene, they are in fact the star attraction of the image, rather than being disregarded. The use of the decaying fruit also suggests the notion of giving the disregarded a new lease of life, it features objects which would been thrown away, this gave me the idea to do this in my own work.

My work

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By manipulating light and shadows, I was able to refract and reflect light in order to create interesting compositions, in order to make the images look more like a collection, I needed to edit them with a similar colour scheme, as the use of blue and yellow lights in production allowed me to do. I to include a raw brick wall bacdrop for my images, but thought this would both deter attention away from the object, and also be a difficult environment to control having to be outside). Using an inside studio environment, I was able to control more variables to my desired specifications. The use of light, although prominent in all pictures, needs to be a more obvious feature of the images, therefore, post-production editing is required. In order to create interesting light refraction’s, I used a variety of broken glass and crunched plastic to create interesting textures. Using objects I found in and around my flat, I was able to re-present them in new ways, as taking them out of their previous environment meant I had already changed their meaning, by doing this I also gave them new context.

Brief 2 – Process

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