the photography gallery. for our second exhibition we asked for collections of work. as it is only our second exhitition we are still learning how to promote the gallery. our plan was that all of the members on the gallery curator team should bring some work to display incase we didn't get enough from other students. people were very last minute in bringing there work and becasue of this a few of us on the team got to put our work up. so here are some little mobile phone shots of my work up on the wall.

if anyone is reading this blog and is in or visiting falmouth. pop into the photography gallery.

it's one the second floor of the photography centre at tremough campus.

space. first experemental prints for my current project looking at patterns in space and nature. these are photograms of jelly molds in petri dishes with food colouring and oil added in different mixtures to make different affects.

jelly mold with food colouring. this one was put in the freezer,

therefor creating little islands of ice on top on the jelly creating a texture.

oil, just oil. as it was filling the petri dish i caught it before it filled the base.

i tryed holding the dish higher. it looks i'm holding a marble!

this is food colouring in oil.
the colour was green and didn't let much light though so the contrast isn't great.

*for this first time i have tryed to put my name print on my images so that no one can steel them. i don't like doing it becasue it gets in the way of the image but if it saves them then i'll do it.

"it's best to assume that some will see the creative sector as a luxury rather than a necessity right now, so you may have to soldier on and work hard to prove your worth to employers.

the art of getting noticed.
Unpaid work experience really help, wether it be a year- long placement or a few days work-shadowing"


from Target jobs get. Directory

been a long time. This is the work I was due to put up a couple of months ago, sorry readers. These are my final pieces from my nature project. They were produced using a mixture of double exposures and burying negatives. (sorry for the space between them, they were printed with white borders.)

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.