#photographyelective

Here are some photographs I took of my housemate to document her footsteps around the city, exploring travel in this way was inspired by the idea of the covid-19 app which tracks your movement in order to identify potential spreads of covid and also by the work of an artist I researched earlier ‘Vito Acconci’.

Another short video I made where I took the layered stop motion video and layered it again with a slow motion of blowing the bubbles.

I was very happy with the outcome especially as the saturated blue of the bubble video combined with the inverted stop motion video created an almost print like effect.

Shopping a procedure.

Here are a series of photographs I took whilst in the supermarket. 

I tried to mainly capture how movement has become restricted and controlled through through barriers/screens  and signs. 

I purposefully edited these photos to look cold and procedural as shopping is no longer considered something one can do to socialise with others as they frequent the aisles but rather a procedure of sticking to the shopping list while maintaining a distance. 

I really liked how the photographs through the screens produced a blurred disorientated image. 

The cover for Vogue Portugal, April 2020 taken by Slovakian Photographer Branislav Simoncik. 

I really like futuristic element of this photograph. 

For more of his work visit the link below:

Artist Research: Vito Acconci, The Following Piece.

Vito Acconci (1940-2017) was an American performance video and installation artist who created this piece ‘The following Piece’. In Autumn 1969 Acconci randomly selected people in New York City  and proceeded to follow them until the person entered a private building this process could last from a couple of minutes to several hours, Acconci was brought around Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx as seen from his above mapped sketches. Although the subject matter of the piece is rather questionable and somewhat controversial due to the invasion of ones privacy and aggressive stalking nature it is also different and a makes for an interesting piece to interpret. 

I really liked this piece and found it relatable to my project in the way in which movement is portrayed through travel (something which is necessary for covid to spread) I also quite like how the use of maps is incorporated in this piece this is something I would like to try tie into my own project.

 I also lfound it interesting how the outcome of this piece was out of the artists controls in that it was the person who decided the final destination of the artists route rather than the artists himself, this lack of control and knowledge is also something that is very relevant during current times in this pandemic as we too  are left unaware of how many cases there will be, how much longer this will go on and the overall result of this pandemic.

I took photographs of my housemate in town to explore movement through the city in a literal sense and some photographs of covid signs, I then used a photoshop app to layer these and I played with some colour and creativity a negative effect in one of the layers in the second picture.

I really playing with the opacity of these pictures and layering them with the signs as I think it helped to give the photographs some context.