"I hope the reader lives the book as an experience. Whoever has it in their hands is encouraged to look at it closely and far away, to touch it, to look for combinations and find relationships in it. It is a book that invites the viewer to play. And I think that this is the best possible tribute to my father, inventor of the madeleine game (el juego de la madalena) and many others."
For this task we as a class walked around Kidbrooke taking photos of whatever we could changing the 'leader' of the group every few minuets as they would decide where we would go. The point of this task was to try and think about the idea of 'Psychogeography' when you feel certain feelings or emotions in relation to your location, It was most famously seen in the 1960's in France when university students where striking. When taking the pictures I felt that I was somewhat able to follow my own theme and photographic style however it was difficult as the pictures where being forced. This meant that when I was taking them I was slightly out of my comfort zone as it was a place where I didn’t really recognise the scenery or know what was there so it was harder to photograph. However I found that If is took more than I needed then I would have a wider range to chose my favourites from With my personal favourites being "life" and "part time signals". If I where to do this walk again I think that I would continue to focus mainly on signs and go more around back streets further to the edges of Kidbrooke as then there is more to photograph than the main ugly road and partially constructed buildings.
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For my visit to an exhibition I went to the Tate Modern. When i went I thought i will being my film camera and try to get some photos. i walked around the 4th, 5t and 6th floor of the Tate looking at all of the open gallery work my favourite being and exhibition they have where small plastic coins where placed on the ground and they let ants come and pick them up and bring them back to their colony but when the coins hit one another as they passed they made a noise creation a very small but strong song. I really enjoyed my visit and thought that i got a couple of cool pictures. |
According to old beliefs Il Malocchio or ‘the evil eye’ is a curse causing bad luck and misfortune. In his debut book Il Malocchio Italian photographer Andrea Simonato depicts the quiet villages of his home region of Vicenza in the Northern Italy as upon this curse of unluckiness causing decay and abandonment. On his walks through sleeping villages and their empty buildings, dark woods and resting groves Simonato makes extraordinary findings in the seemingly common surroundings. The work echoes both longing and hope, creating a beautiful and poetic, yet mysterious ode to a place called home.
I really like his photo books as the photos are able to show so little yet so much as the same time. I also really like that by him making the photos black and white it adds to that sense of mystery cause we as humans rely on colour to comprehend and absorb things. |
“When photographing I try to keep an open mind to whatever I come across. What I look for in a subject is to catch its enigmatic character, what it seems to be hiding rather than what it lets you see. Photographing in black and white helps me to abstract reality more easily by creating a sort of parallel world that is precisely that of the photographic narrative itself. Il Malocchio creates a conceptual frame for my work, as it is inherent for me to explore the mysterious side of things.
This is one of my favourite pages in the book. I think that pages like this work really well when you have a singular black and white pictures with huge contrast and great depth to the image with a blank white page next to it as it forces you to look and put all of your attention into that image. I think looking at the image as well having the nothing goes really well with the depth of the image having that contrast between there being nothing are there being loads even in a small image. |
"As a photographer my looking really changed it really did become sacred, sort of this intensity of looking at the world and looking really closely and photographing things that where not exciting but things that where sort of washed with presence and with light"