These are initial ideas based around my ideas of buildings,
specifically tower blocks. They have fascinated me for a long time, since my
early childhood living in a block of flats in communist Warsaw.
Warsaw, Praga district, 2013
I aim to make a project around people living in huge tower
blocks. Maybe how the drab cold exteriors could contain a multitude of very
different , colourful lives.
I am interested in exploring the following:
- ‘Mockumentary’. A way of presenting my work so that it brings up a point of discussion, rather than being based in what we see in real life. This could maybe mean the setting is a fictional place, or the place is real, but it is set in the future.
- Making sets, so that I can create places (interiors) which don’t really exist.
- Making models, to suggest unusual landscapes.
- Combining models or sets with real places. For example using Photoshop to place model buildings in real landscapes, or to show real landscapes through fake windows.
- Using darkroom techniques, such as painting models with light-sensitive solution (‘liquid light’) and projecting images onto them in the darkroom.
- Projections (onto buildings, then re-photographed)
Vera Lutter
Vera Lutter is a New York-based photographer who has created large-scale prints using the 'camera obscura' technique. It is a technique which originates at the very beginning of photography and is an awe-inspiring effect which consists of the outside world being projected through a small hole, into the inner walls of a darkened room.Lutter would make these projections in rooms around New York, often in urban or industrial areas, and capture th negatives on photographic paper hung on the walls within. Displaying the negatives, rather than making positive images, was prefered as it captured the immediacy of the image. It was an original of one.
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| 333 West 39th Street. (2010-12) Vera Lutter |
My own camera obscura, set up in my son's bedroom
