Slide Film double exposure

Here I have layered two slide films into the projector and projected it onto the wall. It is similar to my black and white photographs where I double exposed the city and countryside together, only I have double exposed the images using projection.

Slide Film City

My slide film images of the city.

Slide Film Countryside

My slide film images of the countryside.

Word Association

I went out onto the street in Manchester and where I live at home and asked the residents words that came to mind when they thought of the countryside and the city. I want to project these words in with the different images when I project it onto the buildings.

Countryside

Calm
Peaceful
Tranquil
Quiet
Nature
Fresh
Revitalising
Enriching
Quaint
Picturesque
Dull
Green
Space
Restful
Leisure
Sedate
Haven
Natural
Windmills
Farms
Field
Clean
Open
Free
Therapeutic
Rural
Scenic
Grass
Smell
Sheep

City

Bustling
Imposing
Suffocating
Vibrant
Diverse
Noisy
Grey
Lively
Frantic
Chaotic
Manmade
Urban
Pollution
Dirty
Cramped
Hectic
Rush
Pressure
Crowded
Pushing
Shoving
Haste
Racing
Cosmopolitan
Crime
Drugs
Ghetto
Lonely
Secluded
Big
Electric
Impressive
Over-rated
Dynamic
Busy
Confusing
Multi-cultural
Impersonal
Homeless
Musky

Manchester Art Gallery Volunteering

This week I have been volunteering at the Manchester Art Gallery with the family activity days. It has been very busy as it is half term so children are not in school. The activity for the day was 'Totem Tales'. The activity has been inspired by the Pilkington's ceramics in the 'Exporting Beauty: Pilkington's Pottery and Tiles' exhibition in the gallery.

The families were encouraged to make a totem pole together, similar to those in the exhibition. The children wrote down words that described them and shapes and animals that they saw in the exhibition. They then made their totem out of a piece of card and using strips of paper, built the face of their animals using strips of paper. No pencils were allowed, the children were asked to use paper as a pencil line, curling or rolling the paper to create the face of their animal. The totem poles were very creative and the families really enjoyed the activity. Parents or carers are encouraged to join in with the activity, create their own totem pole or work together with the children. The children tended to imitate or model the behaviour of their parents or carers. I enjoyed the volunteering I will be attending more sessions throughout the year.

Advertisement

From my double exposed photographs I took in the summer and, more recently, the photographs taken from the 'Stylist' magazine I have noticed a recurring theme of advertising, brand and consumerism. I am very interested in this subject and another option for me would be to have a career in visual communications. When I attended college I was part of the Young Enterprise team and I was in charge of the advertising for our company. We created posters, leaflets and postcards and distrubuted them around the college. I really enjoyed designing the posters, making them striking and eye catching and thinking of catchy slogans for our company.

In first year of university I wrote an essay on advertising and brands. I selected to concentrate on 'Coca Cola' as my main brand. I enjoyed researching into the world of 'Coca Cola' and this further inspired my interest in visual communications.

Advertising is a form of communication intended to persuade an audience to purchase or take an action on a certain product, service or idea. The advertisement has to contain the name of the product and how it could benefit the consumser.

Magazine Photographs

Here are some photographs of the magazine I have taken and developed in the darkroom.

Castlefield Gallery-Born After 1924

Tim Noble and Sue Webster

The artists that most stood out to me at the 'Born After 1924' was Tim Noble and Sue Webster. They use light projections and discarded materials to create sculptural installations and self portraits. The pieces are made from piles of rubbish that have been collected from the streets of London, were they work together. A light is projected against the pile, and the shadow on the wall creates an entirely different image, usually one of the couple themselves. However, this image is not apparent from looking directly at the pile of rubbish.Throughout Noble and Websters careers they have experimented with the idea how humans perceive abstract images and define them with a meaning. I thought that the result was very surprising and powerful as it redefines how abstract forms can turn into figurative ones.

Allen Jones

John Stezaker

John Stezaker takes classic movie stills, vintage postcards and book illustrations and makes collages to give old images a new meaning. By adjusting, inverting and slicing separate pictures together he creates unique new works of art. Through Stezaker's juxtapositions, he adopts the context and content of the original image and turns it into his own witty and poignant meanings.

I like Stezakers 'Marriage' series. He uses publicity shots of famous film stars, overlaps the faces creating new unified characters. He joins the faces together focusing on the facial features such as the eyes or nose. The end result looks comical and weirdly attractive. The images are very bizarre and uncanny, I cannot help myself from liking them. They look confusing but seem to fit together perfectly.

Stezaker's work is currently on exhibiton at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, I have booked to see the exhibition so more information will follow in the next few weeks!