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FMP Neon Pioneers Collective Oct 7th (LO3 LO4 LO7) /
Asked another friend of mine about potentially getting involved with the Neon Pioneers idea. Tim has confirmed that he doesn’t have enough time to commit to things so I’m back to just me. James Clakre a friend of mine I sometimes hire in for help on larger shoots is a photographer and digital artist . He’s also great at illustrator and in design, so I asked him for some ideas on the Neon pioneers logo. He did some roughs. But did mention that he might not have a lot of time to commit to the collective but would try. It’s this same problem that I’m running into all the time and from what Wendy has said in our chats most collectives fail due to lack of involvement from everyone. I may have to re think the structure of it. I can see how things work out with James but i feel that it’s ethically unfair for one person ( me ) to do the majority of work and then other gan the rewards without the same effort. Ideally I want to met some like minded people that are hungry to make waves with personal projects like me. I’ll have to see how it goes.
Read MoreFMP Wendy Tutorial working with text recap (LO3,LO4,LO5,LO6,LO7) /
I had a really interesting tutorial with Wendy she told me about her thoughts on my progress and interestingly she suggested that what my work struck her to be about a generation of people rather than a sub culture in particular. I think I agree with her but it took a little while to come around to the idea. I realise that I am fascinated with other artsit’s that look at groups of people. Looking back of the course at the artists I’ve looked at they’ve included Nan Goldin, Larry Clarke, Jeff Wall, and more recently Spencer Murphy, and Anthony Luvero. There’s definitely a particular melicoholy that comes through when I mention most of those names. i am particularly drawn to a darker and sombre visual approach to image making. I’ll cover more about those in more depth in their own post. Right now We’ve made an action plan to carry on shooting they way I am and to hone in the working with text, that’s the most important part.
Read MoreFMP Production August 2nd Tim Cinema Images /
FMP Production August 2nd Tim Cinema Images
FMP Exhibition Planning Oct 1 /
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Told prsc that I’m not into it. Lack of pa and the timeline etc. They were helpful and explained they do have a pa and that it is great for acoustic acts all the way up to bands. I’ll defo keep them in mind in the future
Read MoreFMP Production LO7 September 28th Mozarts Last show Swansea /
I headed down to Mozarts in Swansea to watch the last ever show there. I met up with some old friends and deliberately took some backdrops with me with the intention of switching up the process. It was really difficult finding space getting it set up and shooting as many as possible before packing down and being ready to capture the live images. I was doing the live images for a personal record and also for all the other bands that played their regularly. I probably won’t include them in my edit. I quite like the backdrop portraits, I knew these people less than the others and I also had less time with them. So to make the whole process nicer for them I kept an upbeat mood and encouraged them to be themselves and also made them laugh. I feel it could add another slice to the project as most of the images so far have been very sombre.
Read MoreFMP Exhibition Planning Sep 28th (LO3 LO4 LO7) /
I went into Sho gallery to speak to the gallery owner Emily. Hannah from HATW has approached her and sent me some general info about the before hand. I basically went in and pitched the show what I wanted to do. I asked about putting work up for the week and opening it with a night of music etc.
Read MoreFMP working with text scanning experiment 3 (LO3 LO5 LO7) /
I’m finding the whole process of working with scanning prints and handwriting on images really pleasing personally. I think as I’ve said before that it’s more of a supplementary work to the main project I need to find a better way to integrate text in.
Read MoreFMP Working with text scanning experiment (LO3 LO4 LO7) /
I love the brutal honest that Wearings image shows above its humbling and find it a really sincere portrait, ethically its a tricky situation as a photographer as this gentleman is in a bit of distress and possible crisis. It would be easy to sensationalize the portrait to gain attention and with it possible work or exposure to portfolio but wearing has delicately shot it and captured it in a way that makes me empathise with the man. I think it’s important to say that I don’t pity him and feel that by holding the sign and choosing what to write and coming forth with it that it gives him a power to be in control balancing the relationship with the image maker and subject a little more than if he hadn’t.
Read MoreFMP Spencer Murphy Case Study /
I’ve been a massive fan of Spencer Murphy for a long time, even as far back as my Ba at Falmouth where he gave a few talks and sessions. I’ve looked at his work a throughout the module and its been really illuminating. In the earlier modules like professional practice I referenced him a lot as he balances personal projects with commercial work and in a way to both sustain and stay creative and focus on projects that mean a lot to him. In his inter voew —— he talks about being facinated with the eccentric and how that was born from a childhood of being left to explore the world in a fairly isolated area. It was this aloneness in borderlands of the contry that led him to explore it with a camera. I can personally relate. I started shooting on 35mm film when I was in school when I was about 14. I was constantly in trouble and being kicked out of classes and I managed to change one of my subjects to photography and when I would leave or get kicked out of the other lessons instead of leaving school and headed to the skatepark I would stay in school and go to the darkroom. Ms Phillips encouraged mwe to shoot more and I was deving films and printing for hours everyday. I can relate to having photography as a reason to explore the world around you, it was my obsession and everything in my life would revolve around it.
Now I run 2 consumer based businesses with photography and film production which affords me the opportunity to shoot personal projects, but I’ve not delivered them to a professional level or really identified the location for my practice until I started the Ma. But looking at artists like Murphy as led me to look at possible arenas to publish work and to also identify an audience and with a little hard work and learning new disciplines ( podcasting) to grow that audience to deliver work that’s meaningful and reflective of certain issues I feel strongly about today ( social media, mental health, loss of community).
Murphy shoots personal work and has had books published via Hoxton press,II can proudly say I own a copy and below are scanned images from his book Urban Dirt Bikers. Murphy won the Taylor Wesslying portrait prize in 2013 and since then has exploded onto the art scene with an agent and commissions for some of the biggest publications the UK and Europe. I want to aim to similar with a focus on personal work that will hopefully lead to commissions. I want to be commissioned to do work that I want to do and feel creatively satisfied with. Murphy talks about how important this is to him.
The Supa Dupa Motos and Demolition Stuntz. Spencer Murphy. 2016 - Urban Dirtbikers
Unknown Rider. Spencer Murphy. Urban Dirt bikers 2016 Hoxton Press
FMP Production - Sep 19th Larry, The Run Up Portraits (LO7) /
I keep finding that the subjects I’m familiar with are the hardest to get a moment that’s a bit different they see me as a friend not a photographer but it does provide these moments of familiarity. I particularly like this image even though it would normally be in the discarded pile of unusable and breaks some very basic rules of portraiture like having the subjects eyes open. Even still I feel like this image conveys a sense of relief or lightheartedness and Larry having his eyes shut makes the gap for us to jump to empathises smaller.
Read MoreFMP Production September 18th - Self Portrait (LO7) /
I wanted to revisit the self portraits that i shot in the previous modules. I feel really uncomfortable on the other side of the camera which is more the reason to do I feel. I can also ethically use words that belong to myself without having to worry about people minding.
Read MoreFMP Exhibition Planning (LO4) HATW UPDATE Sep 15th /
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I asked heads about putting a show on, they were really keen to help and suggested getting involved with the gallery upstairs to. Logistical they have had bands on before but don’t have a PA i rang around my music networks and managed to get a free hire for one from One Louder Studios if needed. I need to finialize out some of the details and ask some bands if they would play. It would be great to integrate art music and community all under one roof it’s what the project is all about.
Read MoreFMP NGH Podcast 4, (LO4 / LO6) /
PODCAST EXCERPT
Edel 10:08 on punk existing in society today as a cultural/political movement
B: I don’t know if people think that punk still exists?
E: I think they do. My kids in school definitely do because so much of them are way more politically aware than we would have been when we were younger. And as a result of that, yeah punk is that thye, I think they probably have that word a little bit more as a political movement than say we would have identified. I think you’re right in what you’re saying in regard to perhaps the music but certainly actually as a cultural music, I think it’s more alive than it would have been when we were in school.
Read MoreFMP Sep 14th NGH Podcast 003 team beard (LO6 LO7) /
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This was a previous test I put up to keep the schedule good. The lighting had issues and I couldn’t get 2 lights sorted in time for the interviews so went ahead anyway. It was good we talk about the scene and art with music as well as my project.
Read MoreFMP Working with text Scanning experiment 1 (LO3 LO5 LO7 LO4) /
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From developing thoughts on my own work I wanted to choose lyrics from songs that mean a lot to me, i know that it is less personal but I think that the choice of them can say something powerful and also which image they are paired with can say a lot to. I’m trying not to be too precious about the decions I make and treat it like an experimental process.
Read MoreFMP Exhibition Planning Sep 10th ( LO3 LO4 LO7 ) /
After chatting with some friends about the nature of work and how it kind of linked in with mental health and community I found that I already know a great non profit called Heads Above the Waves I didn’t realise before but it would be a great organisation to link up with and try and help. It’s run by two people I know and they run workshops with young people teaching them coping mechanisms and using things like art and music as tools to cope. They also do a lot of anti bullying work and provide help and support to people around those suffering i feel that it ties in nicely, what was a particularly interesting overlap was that they heavily promote music both producing and being a fan of it to young people as a way to help them through difficult times. PERFECT exactly the same ethos I have for this project.
Read MoreFMP Production September 9th - Jack Portraits Failure (LO7 LO5) /
Jack’s a guitarist from my band, we’ve know each other for over 8 years and met in South Korea. It was our love of music that was how we met. I played in a band and Jack another we shared a bill playing a gig one night. I put aside a little bit of time after a band practice to shoot more portraits with him. I didn’t put enough time aside and realised that after playing music for a few hours I was too tired to work. I’ve put it down as a learning point : be very aware of scheduling for portraits ( which I normally do) and that doing strenuous activity before hand will affect ones ability to produce work tho it can be explored as a creative strategy in the future perhaps but not in this context.
Read MoreFMP Working with text 4 Tom O Boyle, Salty Gecko designs 7th Sep (LO5 LO6 LO7) /
After a few rudimental attempts of working text into the images myself it was very clear that it needed a lot of work. After seeking Wendy’s advice through a tutorial she suggested collaborating with other artists. I have already tried an attempt with one graphic designer and illustrator but the communication was far to slow and to much hard work for it to be a viable option. That fizzled so I thought I would try a new person, that was Tom O’Boyle from Salty Gecko Designs. Tom is also a Falmouth graduate and that’s how I know him i’ve commissioned him for work with my consumer businesses over the years. I fully explained the nature of the collaboration and what i need help with along with my vision. I gave minimal restrictions and It was really interesting to see what came up.
Read MoreFMP Exhibition Planning Sep 7th (LO4 LO7) /
They replied with a counter that was really good and even offered to colob with showing the work at some of the picture boards they run in the bear pit in Bristol.
It seems like a good idea but I need to check that the original plan to have bands playing will work out. They offered to run a bar to make a little extra cash for them to make up for the discount they’d give me. I don’t think they have a pa or space for bands so decided to maybe put that on the back burner for a moment. That and they date might be a little early to get enough work.
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