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MPH0407 Maud Salter - Syrcas Exhibition @ Autograph ABP, Shoredtich Attending Maud Salters’ exhibition at Autograph ABP was a real eye - opener, having never heard of her artistic work before, or the style of work she undertook.  The exhibition itself focused on Maud’s Syrcas photomontage work. Using found postcards of the German landscape, she appropriated images of African symbolism, pasting them on top of the traditional, idyllic scenes of the German countryside to create her powerful photomontages. In particular, this body of work focuses on the role and contribution of Africans to European history, as well as highlighting the cultural appropriation of many elements of African/Black culture in wider European culture. In addition, it could be said that her method of producing her photomontages, doing so physically with the prints themselves as opposed to in the darkroom brings to attention the display of artefacts appropriated my colonial rule from Africa without any context, or full appreciation of what they are to the people from whom they were taken.  It is a powerful comment on the lack of recognition of this fact, up close the photomontages themselves showing clearly the physical pasting of the African symbols directly on top of the postcards - to me, this is almost to say “This is Germany, but you’re ignoring all of this”

Business cards and dummy zine for portfolio. I wanted a theme to run threw my presentation so I stuck with the same image,baby pink and font to give my work some consistency. 

“Age of Consent” addresses my departure from adolescence, it documents the years my friends and I have spent approaching adulthood ; exploring foreign environments, new relationships and eventually leaving home. In a way it is my final goodbye,  a testament to a period of my life that I can no longer live. There is no set narrative or theme that runs threw the spread but instead it focuses on light, colour and texture to bind the images together. The content is extremely personal and I view it more to be a visual diary then any other form of documentation. Although the piece openly celebrates summer days, lovers and joviality there is a darker tone that also runs threw the pages. The zine contains a world that is no longer available to me, the photographs are therefore portals, distillations of memories that have been locked away. As I move forward I release that perhaps I took all this for granted, however I am pleased that I can produce a record that not only I can enjoy.

In the progress of project series, I realized I have precise goal of desired effect in my heart, and I would use different methods to approach to the effect I wanted whether in the progress of filming nor in the last progress of process, but I knew little about the use of equipment in the Studio, which made me come across a lot of errors affecting the final result.

in the process of making the copy project. I realized I had confidence to make arrangements for scene and to capture important moments, but I was not skilled enough in post processing for pictures.

I don't want to change a lot about the color of my film in the color darkroom cause i have already made it in the studio by using jell and light，in order to achieve their desired effect, I compared copy with series, try to make them fit with each other, and found out the links between them, tried to use different ways to highlight and magnified it.

After process my films in the color darkroom and mounting，i start to think about how to lay out it to make a best result，sometimes it's nice to ask someone else opinion to get good advice and classmates and tutor have give me a few ideas about that also share their opinions about the work.

I've seen a lots of his work and it have give me a lots of inspiration and his work is full of nostalgia and retro, rough atmosphere，the color the contrast makes the whole image becomes mystery and interesting，his work effect me a lot in this project.