Photography is really a very good example of this maxim, "Seeing is Believing"
Yet one needs to remember that believing is not actually seeing!
Photographic "truth" is like belief; it is assumption rather than fact.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
OCA competition - Roll With it
I decided to enter this OCA competition with commitment; having won the last one, I felt I was in with a chance.
An early idea that came to my mind was a lamp with a toilet roll as the shade.
This was followed by other "still life" pieces
I wanted to photograph a scene of my mother coming out of the supermarket carrying a load of toilet rolls but she did not want to play and neither did she want me to ask a friend of hers to. I fancied doing a self portrait but this would have meant using a tripod and no doubt the management of Waitrose would have come out to ask me what I was up to and probably to tell me to stop etc
In the end, I went for an image that one tutor described as "strong work" and a student as "Great Work". There were other encouraging comments from other students. Might it not be the winner? It had to be!! I was aware of my crazy mind going on because somehow I knew it would not be.
This photoshopped photo of a black woman with a toilet roll superimposed over her face surely has narrative potential (as one tutor remarked).
It did not however really fullfil the brief and was not what the tutors/judges were looking for. Photoshop had seduced me from the raw experience of the photograph!!
An early idea that came to my mind was a lamp with a toilet roll as the shade.
This was followed by other "still life" pieces
I wanted to photograph a scene of my mother coming out of the supermarket carrying a load of toilet rolls but she did not want to play and neither did she want me to ask a friend of hers to. I fancied doing a self portrait but this would have meant using a tripod and no doubt the management of Waitrose would have come out to ask me what I was up to and probably to tell me to stop etc
In the end, I went for an image that one tutor described as "strong work" and a student as "Great Work". There were other encouraging comments from other students. Might it not be the winner? It had to be!! I was aware of my crazy mind going on because somehow I knew it would not be.
This photoshopped photo of a black woman with a toilet roll superimposed over her face surely has narrative potential (as one tutor remarked).
It did not however really fullfil the brief and was not what the tutors/judges were looking for. Photoshop had seduced me from the raw experience of the photograph!!
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