Idris Khan

Idris Khan is a British artist/photographer based in London, England. Khan's work is layered imagery to create an abstract final image after created, Khan takes many images of the same place or object from many angles and views then layers them all together and turns own the opacity to almost nothingness leaving just the line work behind to create a distressed abstract image in monochrome.

Recreation

One of my experimentations will be based on the artist/photographer Don McCullin as he manages to add photojournalism and documentary into his photographs to make a powerful photograph, I want to take these techniques into my images as I want to have a story behind the conflicting image or images I will use for my final piece, this will help as my theme is conflict. Don McCullin helps relate to my theme as he took a project on war photography and the conflict in violence and the peace, this really caught my eye on which photographer to base my recreation round.

I have decided to experiment with Don McCullin's work and style as McCullin represents his work in a specific style, the photographs taken on a film camera and straight into monochrome, I love working in black and white as it makes any image powerful as if it has created a whole new meaning and story behind it.

Recreations

My idea for a conflicting image in my recreations would be to take photographs of every friend of my parents and family member that we're involved during my parents divorce, this was my first situation and sighting of conflict. I have decided to do this as it really hits home and is a part of my heart that will never be replaced or an image I will never forget. The situation was far from calm and collected, the situation was violent and extremely upsetting for all of us. As much as I can remember at the young age it was a lot to deal with and see my parents going through. I was sent to my next door neighbours house while my parents were arguing, shortly after the police arrived and made the situation a lot more disturbing and hard. This allows me to take photos of my next door neighbours, my parents, and the police or a police car.

I will take photographs of each family member from all angles and lay them over each other for a really distorted and uncomfortable image for my final piece. I will be able to put them all next to each other, I will name this piece 'My Childhood Broken Into Two' I will name it this as my heart has been broken into two, having to share my love two my parents separately instead of together, it has also made my childhood broken as it was the only time my life has every truly changed completely, however; I wouldn't be the person I was today if things like this didn't happen.

Research 2

Jeremy Deller

Jeremy Deller was born in 1966 in England and is a conflict photographer that took a project under the name of the 'miners strike'. Margret Thatcher shut down a lot of mines which took a lot of jobs for the working class. This created a lot of conflict and violence for the police and the working class. Deller decided to take it into his own hands to get involved and capture this atmosphere into photographs.Deller belongs to the Conflict, Documentary & Photojournalism movements. These are movements that show conflicting imagery while also telling a story, documentary photography is a movement that allows the photographer to document real life issues and situations within an image. 

These three images were taken as part of Dellers project under the name 'Miners Strike' this was a project Deller had taken up during the 1984 Battle of Orgreave, these images were taken to show the conflict between the miners that had lost their jobs and the violent police officers on duty that day. These images connote violence, anger and sorrow for the men that had lost their jobs due to Margret Thatcher closing all the mines down and taking thousands of working men out of business. These images are photographs of fighting and violence. I agree with the intended meaning of the photographs taken within Dellers 'Miners Strike' project of showing that how life can change so quick in just one decision and how these men are pretty much fighting for their lives and work to have a house over their heads and they are doing anything they can to make a living in this situation.

The techniques that have been used in these photographs are angles and shot types, Deller has taken an image using a low angle facing upwards, this creates a powerful image and making the violence stand out. Deller using a low angle facing upwards has made the violent men look very masculine and over powering to look giant like. Deller also uses depth of field in an image to show how many people were causing violence in one image, the amount of miners that day were as far as the eye can see, this creates a powerful image as if the miners were lining up taking it in turns to fight the police men on duty all down to anger from loosing their job.

I can use this work as part of my theme as I have an idea or using documentary photography with the working class to show the struggle in life, this is exactly what Deller has done with this project. This work inspires me as Deller shows perfectly how hard life can get for the working class in within a group of images taken and also that we need to be grateful for what we have before it has all gone and we could be in the same position as these men by just a few words by important people that we can't change.

For my AS Photography final piece I a working on the theme of conflict, I have chosen to do this as I also want to work with photojournalism, doing this will help me add a story behind the photographs I will take and also make a powerful image for anyone seeing it.
The history behind the theme of conflict is to involve conflict and the effects it creates on people and places around the world. Conflict photographers that find themselves in positions where they can take powerful images can also put themselves into harmful situations and in some cases being killed to get the images they dreamed of.
The influences for my ideas are Brexit, I have chosen this as it is going to go down in history and it has all gone down to the older racist generations that know nothing about it they just want to get any race or culture out of England that isn't white, I want to focus on taking images of violent men with English flags being held or round them. Brexit will have a high chance of driving England into the ground in the future with no plan on how to get out.
I also want to work around the conflict between the working class on rough estates and the upperclass with their own houses in nice areas, to show the conflict between life being rough compared to how some people have it lovely, also the conflict on single mothers from council estates and rich mothers with horses.
the influences for my photography are Jeremy Deller & Charlie Phillips. I have chosen these as they show conflict between working class and also ethnicities, not just war and violence. Charlie Phillips had done a project and had a photograph between a couple of a black man and a white women in the 60s when this wasn't aloud and racism was heavily being used upon black people, this is very inspiring because Charlie has taken it into his own hands to show people that it is okay and it is time to end racism by portraying photojournalism inside the photograph.
The techniques I wish to explore when creating my final piece are photojournalism and documentary photography so that I can tell a story and hopefully get a powerful piece as an outcome to show the conflict in the working class and the upperclass. I also want to either use the perfect lighting inside a film camera for a more gritty look or use black and white for a dark element inside the photograph.
I aim to present my final image by halving two photographs into one of the working class and the upperclass so that they create a conflicting image by acting upon each others present inside the photograph so people can see the conflict between the two.

CUBISM

the study of peoples culture

it was a truly revolutional style of modern art developed by Pablo Picasso and George Braques

Cubism it was the first style of abstract art which involved at the beginning of the 20th century in response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed

Can use a long shutter speed



David Hockney


The Desk - July 1st 1984

David Hockney is an artist and photographer from England, David has an important roll in the pop art scene of the 1960s and is also considered one of Britons most influential artists of the 20th century, David was born on the 9th Holy 1937 and is 81 years old and studied at Bradford college 1953-1957.This artwork belongs to the cubism movement, this is a movement found in the early 20th century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture towards the 20th century more modern art, cubism is known for dividing photographs and art into squares/cubes across a page to create a full image e.g taking images of a chair from all angles and then taking them into photoshop and creating squares so you can see the chair from all ages but in one photograph.The shot types in this image are almost all at medium close up and a few at close up, angles being: high angles, low angles and the medium shot.

Expererimentation

Planning:
- Camera
- Park Hill
- Old People
- Night or Day
- Documentary Photography
- Black & White
- Photoshop CC 2019