nature. for my most recent project i looked at photographing landscapes,turned into photographing my garden! i wanted to create images that the viewer really had to look into, see under the layers, colours, textures etc. these are some of my development shots. i will post my final six perhaps tomorrow.

the sky.

shot on holga with fuji 120 colour film

was shot to be used as a base for a mixed media composition.

left negative.

shot same as image above.

i left a selection of negatives out in my garden for a week letting nature affect them. the biggest affect was the rain as it changed the colour of most of the negatives and left water marks on some. my photographs of nature were added to by nature it self.

double exposure.

shot same as images above.

shooting a second image on top of one just taken without winding the film on. i was also using my macro lens in front of the holga lens. i found it hard to focus the closer image as on the holga what i see though the viewfinder is not the same as what the lens sees.

there is a lot of work from this project that i want to put up here. (yes i know i should have done it as i went along but never had the time to sit and upload it all). while uploading these images i have realised that about half of this nature project is mixed media and hand printed so a lot of my experimentation is in my sketchbook that i have just handed in for the deadline. i will scan it in and add it to the blog when i hopefully get it back next week.

departement 56.

Brittany,France.

some 'snap shots' of my family holiday in the morbihan (north west france) i picked out some of the more artsy ones. i took four cameras with me. my holga that i got a the start of the summer vacation, my 4 lens lomography camera, the panorama camera featured in a older post and my old little digital camera that pretty much never got used! i took so much film that it took me days to develop and scan them when i came back to uni.

now i have updated you with my best summer 'snap shots' and my summer project, i can continue with posting my work as i do it...

BACK FROM SUMMER VACATION.
...so the work flow can continue.

the reason there was no work put up on here over the vacation was because i shoot mostly on film and while away from university i am unable to scan/print the negatives.

however i was still working. i had to write my own briefs and complete one of them. the one i chose to complete was one on the subject of identity. (i briefly mentioned in an earlier post) so here bellow are the final images i selected to use for my presentation of my summer project in the first week back after vacation.

MY FIRST CAMERA : A GOLDEN MINOLTA

i have had it in a box for years and always known it was there but never used it.
i got it when i was little. not sure what age. defo pe-teens.

so i loaded it with cheap colour film (kodacolor 400)

and i have been carrying it around everywhere for the last week or so.

i have tons of goodens but here are some of my favorite.

me with my head under a oldschool large format monorail camera.

don't i look like a real photographer or what?

this is what i love about basic cameras.

the automatic flash. the auto focus. the colour.

(i need longer arms to focus my face!)

Claire n. and i walked over to flushing beach.

is it artwork? or the remains of a house!

THE DEATH OF FILM IS COMING.

BUT CAN IT WAIT 'TILL AFTER I DIE.

PLEASE.

francesca g.

prep' shoot for a new project titled identity.

shot on a hasselblad with ilford b&w

i went to a liquid light workshop last week.

we were told to bring surfaces to print on and negatives. that's all.

i knew nothing about liquid light before this class,

apart from that it is an alternative way of printing.

I LOVE IT.

i have put up on here some of the prints on different papers.

my rug.

120mm shot on a holga

printed on white fabriano paper

the holocaust memorial, berlin.

35mm shot on a pentax

printed on white fabriano paper

porthcurno beach.

120mm shot on a bronica

printed on beige fabriano paper statue nr potsdamer platz, berlin.

35mm shot on a pentax

printed on brown parcel paper.

20 jahre mauerfall nov.2009, brandenburger tor, berlin.

35mm shot on a pentax

printed on thick calico.

PS.By the way.

liquid light is a liquid solution that you heat up and paint onto a surface then dry and print onto as you would normally print. it is used for getting a more hand made look and you are able to print on more that just flat photo paper.

cos i realised i didn't actually tell you what it was.

can i have this? it's in the best colour.

top photo taken on a hasselblad

bottom image from the observer mag 23.05.10