Influential Art: End Image

Influential Art: End Image

End Outcome

The end outcome is done to look similar to the painting by keeping the train in the image to make sure they look together to make them stronger. I decided to take the outcome of this being a landscape image and convert this to a portrait image. I have changed the way people will read the image and keep the focus on the subject by making some of the images have a strong negative space. The image is important to show the links to the beginning and the end of mental health journey. As I have mentioned in the statement of intent, “The end images are going to be done with the inspiration of jasper James, with the subject becoming hidden because of the reliance in the phone.” This has been shown by placing the subject in the mobile phone to show the links to mental health. The way I wanted people to be affected by viewing is that it is an advert for Calm because of the use of branding in the work. I have also shown that we are all consumed by looking at our mobile phone so I decided to do it twice with the subject having it in there hand in front of the train and with it bigger with the viewer looking into the mobile phone. The image speaks of mental health with the use of the colour blue can mean feelings of calmness or serenity or it can mean being sad, alone as also known in the music genre the blues (Cherry, 2019).

When comparing the end outcome with the painting I have made sure there are similar themes underlying the work and complete contrast. The similarity between the painting and the outcome is that they both have leading lines going down to the edge of the picture, this shown in the platform and the train in my end image while with Turner he has used the viaduct and the train to draw the viewers attention down the end of the section and back again for greater effect. Both the Painting and the outcome have both got trains in them as this the main effect that I was recommended to bring across in a group criticism, to make sure they look similar, I have used an electric British rail class 375 while turner has a used a steam train to make sure they are not directly copying each other.

The differences is that I have made is that I have turned it into a portrait and made this stand out to the public. While the other difference is that I have used the subject and placed into the mobile phone. Overall I am pleased how the image in the phone links to what I had set out to do.

Influential Art - Idea 1, 2 & 3

Influential Art - Idea 1

This idea has been taken from playing around with the settings to see what will stand out when relating to the subject. The work styled by this helps me to formulate what I can do and the shots come together. This set up allows me to plan for the following ideas in the next setting I am going to keep the subject and change the background

Influential Art - Idea 2 & 3

Idea 2 subject not shown in Front of the Train at Canterbury West

The idea from this is to show how people at times might want to take their own lives from being bullied on social media. The idea behind the train is to highlight is that we are all becoming hidden from society. I have used the same settings that I have used from editing the other to produce this. The strongest shots for me are with the subjects hidden to show how they have all become disconnected from life and how this has removed as from life. The other idea showing how they are not as important to people with mental health. I am going to take the third idea and make the subjects stand out to the viewer at home. I am going to place them with the phone so people can be shown to look out to people in links to mental health. I decided to keep the train in the images because the tutors recommenced me to keep this as it is closely linked with the painting by Turner to make sure that the work has more than the link to the subjects in order to make it stand out. I was also recommended to keep the subject in the image to show that this is a portrait image, not a landscape image.

Idea 3 Subject shown in Front of the Train at Canterbury West

Influential Art - Idea 4 & 5

Influential Art - Idea 4 & 5 

Idea 5, The subject shown on the mobile phone
showing the calm logo.

Idea 4 The subject shown on the mobile phone.

This idea is about interacting with the mobile phone to show the subject Looking at the mobile phone.  The idea behind this idea is to show how we are all consumed by the use of the mobile phone. When looking at the mobile phone it is important to highlight that we are consumed. I have shown in my work is that by removing the rubbish around the phone allows it to stand out.  The main difference between Idea 4 and Idea 5 is the calm logo because of the way it has been done to make clear the link with the use of the mobile phone. I am going to use one of the subjects from idea 5 for the final image outcome. I have taken idea 3 with them being partly shown from the train shots for them all to come together for them to stand out to show the problem that is going on when it comes to the mental health problems we have going on.

Contact Sheets; influential art

 Contact Sheets: influential art

The contact sheets show the shoot that I did for this section the contact sheet is shown with number and colour next to it to make life easier in the editing stage showing what the best shots are and what the worst ones are. The images are done with some of the subjects being on the mobile phone with them being the ones that I am going to use while the others are going to be of them. The context of this set of contact sheets is that they are designed to highlight what is going on. The contact sheets highlight the range of camera angles and locations in order to get the highest possible outcome out of them when editing them in Photoshop. In the selected work shown in green,  I have used more of the landscape angles because they are easier to crop without removing most of the subject for the landscape images, while with the portraits with the subjects in they are not as important in what they come in but what they look like in Photoshop. 

Charlie Clift

Sue Perkins Comedian and broadcaster

Charlie Clift

Alastair Campbell Political aide and author

Charlie is an editorial photographer who has worked with many companies, for example, Bafta, GQ and the Guardian. He has produced a wide range of portraits and editorial works. The work I have selected to annotate are from his series from, “ ‘LET’S TALK’ SPARKING MILLIONS OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH” (Clift, 2018, p. Including all the photos). The series captures people showing the inner emotion which makes it easier to understand what is going on with the problems that they all face.

What is denoted? 

The Image denotes celebrities sitting down in the studio with writing on the heads of them all. The images have all got writing on the face of them all.

What is Connoted?

All these images connate the feeling of hurt and mental illness that people have faced over their faces. The images have been designed to make people understand the problem that people might face. It communicates the feeling of hurt with all the problems written on the faces of the subjects.

Lettering artist: Kate Forreste

How are you affected as a viewer?

Steve Harris Disabled activist

When looking at the images from the series the 1st thing that most people will see is the white writing on the face to highlight the problems that they have got on. The images make people feel sad as it highlights the problems that they are all facing in the time. The image highlights what the stigma about mental health has been all about. With the negtive space shown makes people focus on the subject and what the mental health problems that they have all got.

What makes this work significant to you (and or your project)?

When looking at the photographers I like the way that the subjects have all got writing on the faces of them to make it easier to understand what they are all about. The way that the subjects are lit with soft backlighting with a soft feel on the models to make it easier to understand what they are all about with making it easier to see. This significant in styling in the future about displaying the problems when it comes to mental health for the readers to understand.

Strengths & Weaknesses

My work is going to be street photography of someone at the edge of life who is about to jump and I am going to take forward the writing and add it onto the subject. The visual styles are important as it shows the mental health problems with the writing being the biggest strength from this body of work that has been produced. While the weakness in the way I am going to use this is that they are in the studio.

Who is the intended audience?

The intended audience is for people to look at the work in the newspaper or other places and to talk about people mental health problems. The work is important as it is designed to highlight mental health issues. It was aimed at anyone in order for them to open up and talk about the issues that they are facing.

What context have you seen the work in?

I have seen the work shown in the context of a viewer online and reading what these are all about because this has been key to understanding it. With the message that is being sent out.

References

Clift, C., 2018. Let's Talk. [Online]
Available at: https://www.charliecliftphotography.com/work/lets-talk/
[Accessed 9 10 2019].

Niall McDiarmid

Niall McDiarmid

Niall McDiarmid is a Documentary Portraiture photographer who has done three books about documenting the lives of people across the UK. Niall McDiarmid work shows people with colour and also the location to stand and to make the shots look similar to make the viewer think.

After watching an interview

After watching an interview with him on YouTube I have learned more parts of him around him. I have learned that he meets and speaks with strangers and he builds up a relationship that people and then he will ask to shoot them he wants to capture them in there natural state. So to this, he shoots 2 – 3 frames which account for blinking he understands the problem with digital which is, to shoot too early with the composition he shoots down the barrel to the camera lens. When some come to him and goes to him you should them he believes that they are always not the right one, He started with one lens and Fuji camera and he shoots down barrels.

 Queens Road, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, June 2015 – Niall Mcdrimand

Paddington, London, November 2017 – Niall Mcdrimand

Bargate, Southampton, Hampshire, July 2014 – Niall Mcdrimand

He started this project when he did not have a lot of money as he wanted to go out and shoot around the country and go to other places that he has not been he said if he was rich he would not have done it as he would have gone to somewhere they were rich. Typology X, and curate as this style, Niall does not like interwar photographer like August Sander, he knows the work but he is not happy about categorising people, his models he finds find hard to categorise themselves as people come around people across the UK and have moved over. He is not a storyteller but he includes street, town and date only. August has done a lot and him sociality categories e.g. baker Jewish baker, bakers wife as that his what was the style back in August’s day.

Women with red hair (Niall McDiarmid, 2014)
A man and his stick (Niall McDiarmid 2014)
Man in Yellow sitting on the bench (Niall McDiarmid, 2015)

These two shots are some the greatest shots that Niall Mcdrimand did for his latest book Town To Town, the shots are done with the location and the communication. These shots I like as he communicates to the model and captures them in their natural light. I want to use his styles in my work as they correlate to his message. Even though this was a personal project and a bit of fun he used this to show his work off. I want to use the style that he has done in my work. These shots are done with a similar styled compared to his first set of work of crossing paths. Niall uses a style that is relevant to him with this work he does not show peoples name or what they are like, as he hates people stereotyping what people are from different walks of life and the location, which shows how Diverse Britain is.

 Luke and Levii, Queen Street, Bridgend, May 2014
Southchurch Road, Southend-On-Sea, Essex, February 2017
Marine Parades, Hastings, May 2011

How does this fit with the Contemporary and Documentary Portrait Photography 

This work fits the Contemporary and Documentary Portrait Photography because this is documenting the UK from town to town. This style resembles with people and that these tell a story of what people are like and people can relate to what we are like. This fits the Contemporary portrait story as these are done to show what people are in the Morden life these done to show the here and now. I like how Niall is bold when making the colour choices with the subjects he has chosen what the location has connected to the viewer and we can understand what it might be in our life. When linking it to the style that I am after with his work it forms together with the way he has shot environmental portraits in the Past. 

 Hertford Street, Coventry, (Niall McDiarmid, 2012)
 Bedford Street, Rhyl, (Niall McDiarmid, 2011)
Adelphi Street, Blackpool (Niall MacDiarmid, 2012)

About the Crossing Paths shots

Niall’s shots are articulated to highlight the diversity in around London with none of his shots are showing someone looking similar because he wants to highlight that nobody is the same and that everybody is different. Niall uses prominent locations that most normal people will understand can relate in their lives. Niall turns location that looks run down or looks ugly into an inspiring masterpiece his work is taken around Britain as the crossing lines work is about a portrait of Britain. His work is done to document what real people are like he was after “the many not the few” (Labour Slogan 2017) of real people, not the rich elite that people must sadly put up with. After looking at his work in this Unit I understand how that Niall uses his work to show what Crossing paths works, this works together in and even though at times it comes together in other works for this project I am planning on using his environmental portrait style when shooting the project.

Bibliography

All photos are from Crossing Paths, Town to Town. From Niall McDrimand.

Jasper James

Jasper James

Jasper is an editorial photographer who has worked with many companies, for example, major companies. He has produced a wide range of portraits and editorial works. The work I have selected to annotate are from his series from, “ ‘Skyscapes” (James, 2019). The series captures people showing the inner emotion which them being hidden by the use of double exposure.

What is denoted? & What is Connoted?

 The Image denotes the subject being slightly invisible with the city being able to show in full charterer while with the outside of the subject being covered with sky making the area slightly blue. When looking at the connoted sections of the image it shows emptying and loneliness. The imaging power from here shows that we are small compared to the big wide world. These two images are showing the same theme as the top image of isolation. These two images have got more blue for the background than the first image has got more of the city the middle one has got some of the city is displayed and the bottom one is showing a tiny bit of the blue.

How are you affected as a viewer?

 When looking at the images I feel isolated with the way it has been captured with the removal of all things significant. The image communicates people not being known this emotion is big when looking at the outcome that has been produced with the message of you are small in the world. The emotion coming across from the image is that the subject is looking isolated because it looks isolated is showing that they have been disconnected from life and that they are all by themselves. The main subject is showing the background clearer to show that he is looking to give up on their life and cannot go on, I think this showing the emotion of emptiness, as he is empty inside. Contrasting the rest of the background has got sky on the image because it shows that the rest of the world is cloudy and that they do not look like that they are accepting him. The use of the shades of blue has been done because of the sky background and showing the clarity of how lost he could be. The body is darker because it showing that he is not being shown to have clarity or be accepted into life. The background has got negative space to show that he is disconnected from life and has to be in the city.

What makes this work significant to you? 

This body of work is significant to me because it highlights the problem of being alone the image captures isolation the feeling of being hidden from society. This is similar to what I am planning on doing how I am relating it to the use of mobile phones. The use of placing the subject in the centre challenges the viewer as it is harder to follow the image like this. All the pictures are trying to influence in order to show that people are a disconnect from the world and they need to respect everyone and not push them out. He uses this to create contemporary portraiture, as his work is modern and different and his work does not always have to be all so simple. The use of this in contemporary portraiture makes people think about his work and why the message is behind this and what has been contained.

Strengths & Weaknesses

My work is going to be street photography of someone at the edge of life who is about to become to the edge of society and this works with them being hidden from the world in the way that they are positioned. The Weakness in relating to my work is that I am planning on replicating it in Photoshop with it not having the double exposure.

Who is the intended audience? & What context have I seen the work in? 

The Intended audience for this are his clients and the publishers with it are shown across the internet. The Context I have seen this work has been online and recreating this in college but linking it to Brexit.

The Poses

The main subject image was taken in the studio and the background taken from a bird’s eye view. The location is showing that the powerful background looks like it is going to remove him from life. The poses are showing that they are looking over the city and that they are disconnected from to take the main subjects this would have been done in the studio. The background is a crane shot as it is wide built up and the clouds are just a blue overlay.

My Take On Jasper James In College, Day Democracy Died 

Please note

Please do not take offence if you do not support Brexit. The attempt was to make it politically neutral and that both views are being ignored.

 Now when writing this Image 1 is going to be showing a silhouette and cityscape of Folkestone. I did this when the government lost the high court battle about Brexit. I wanted this to be universal for people different from politics. My shots have got somewhat of a political message to this work because I am showing that Brexit is a good thing. After making this and realising this I remembered that I should not make my work to political. However, this has got some connection to peters to work as it brings.

These have formed an Idea For influential art for Visual Research taken for Level 2 Art and Design For College.

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell is a Scottish / British who was born in Glasgow and her work features her family and other inequality here in the UK.  Margaret Mitchell two main projects is Family (1994) and her later project in the place (2017).  Her work shows the problem with poverty in the UK and how families need to stick together to get through, her work shows that the government needs to do more work in order to stop people living in run-down areas in the UK. In the place, the book was a scary challenge as she wanted to revisit it but she was unsure what the challenges for her family would be after the death of her sister 2008. She knew her sister children faced challenges with them being emotionally, economically and personally. She felt after her sister’s death the bond breaking and she hoped that doing this project would let her back in their lives and make the family bond strong.

'In This Place' traces the lives of my late sister’s family and offers a broader commentary on the environment, opportunity and social inequality. 

Chick from the series Family, 1994 © Margaret Mitchell
Steven from the series Family, 1994 © Margaret Mitchell

Margret believes that family lives are in a certain controlled location and in the book ‘‘family’’ She used mothers, sisters with a lived with certain style background from objects from children’s daily stories. She was also inspired as she fed, clothed, washed and give support to let children live in their own world. These shots she has shown are part of the children’s understanding and shows the power of what they live like. The two books showing the following children lives show a different the story than we are used to listening to. The series of the family follow her sisters’ children Steven, Kellie and Chick, who she has close connections with. She wanted to document the lives from the involvement and experiences from the children as life had been contained, linked and inter-dependent.

Leah, Chick’s daughter, in the Backcourt 2016. At age ten, Leah had lived in over ten different places. With grandparents, another family, homeless accommodation
Steven close by both his and his youngest sister’s flats 2017. Steven is the eldest of the original three siblings. He took me for a walk, said he knew a nice place, just up the road. We walked then stopped in an area of open land. I realised quite suddenly this was where his mum - my sister - had lived before she died in 2008. Steven had lived there with his mum. ‘Nothing left here’ he said; we took a few photos and walked on

Margret lived in Raploch, Stirling, Scotland, which is one of the highest places in Scotland and is high on the Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) and the reputation is not normally seen in through the nicest ways. Margaret saw the location as not being important as it was about children and childhood.

Leah, Chick’s daughter 2017. Chick mourns her losses, a mother for herself and the grandmother Leah can’t really remember. “We would all be together all the time if Mum was still here, me and Leah and Kellie and the kids.”Liam, Kellie’s son 2017. “I’m going to get a really good job, I will be very successful at my job and I’ll have a girlfriend and a few kids and I’ll take care of them and we’ll have a good life.

The latest book highlights some cultural problems with most people and is what choices do we have in life where some of the predetermined or has been made for us. The book uses the workplaces to show some of the mental and physical problems we put ourselves in. this could be with drugs, politics or it could family issues she uses this book to explore her great-nieces and nephews to see how they have used their choices. As this book focuses on what her nieces and nephews would have gone through with the loss of her sister. From looking at it from my angle I understand how hard at times people can take it this shows some of the emotional aspects from a viewer with the loss of family members.

 Kellie from the series Family
Kyla, Kellie’s daughter 2017. Kellie’s girls tell of how they get ‘slagged off’ at school for living in a flat. In this town, most people live in houses with a front and back door and a garden.

The problem with this area of town is the area poor and almost slum-like condition. The images show a personal message of her family with the loss of loved ones, new love and survival in a socioeconomic context. This will be the death of her sister but everyone can relate from having a perfect life and then some you are close to dying and your life can get of control. Even with the death of her sister and loss of parents and no good opportunities of earning a decent living, the family is almost like glue as they have not really moved from the town and they are in the same area similar lets and but they keep the independence going since they were children. Most families will go through loss and will stick together this what I am so fascinated that she can come back 20 years later to the same place and they have not moved.

Leah in front of her flats 2016. “Hopefully, I will stay here forever, in this area, this place”
All three siblings and their children still live in flats yet to be touched by regeneration.
A circular bus runs through the town, from one area of economic deprivation to another. Within this social landscape, all that has changed for the children from 1994 is moved from one area scoring high in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation to another. This is a simple bus ride across town.

Some people believe that life just stays the same nothing happens when living the conical housing estates in central Scotland. As the world changes the families shown the series ‘In the Place’ stay in the same place. In the landscape and the movement has occurred to another area that is still too high with deprivation, which is a bus ride across the town. Some towns will always have a close effect and people at times will not want to leave their own they have grown up.

Add caption Chick and her daughter, Leah 2016. Chick always wanted a little girl. After she got pregnant at 16 and had Leah she knew she didn’t want, or need, any more children. She had her daughter.  Chick and Leah got a necklace out of Argos. One half says ‘I Love You’; the other half says ‘To The Moon and Back’. They separated the necklace and each wear half.Kyle, Steven’s son 2016. Kyle was born at 28 weeks, weighing less than 2 pounds a born fighter, always.

Problem with politics and not helping the situation

In areas like Raploch, Stirling these are small towns and cities and have been ignored in favour of big towns and cites was there are more people and more interest. Over the 20 years gap, there was not really any positive development. The city might be huge but as with London, they neglect the small people, as they know it will not have an effect on this. Most people in this area rely on benefits at times, this has been ignored in the area by the main parties and in the UK parliament is currently controlled by the Conservative government: in the 1st election since the area was formed was in 1983 with Michael Bruce Forsyth, Conservative – he was the MP when ‘family (1994)’ was created, while in 1997 Dame Anne McGuire, Labour became MP, then afterwards it became in 2015 Steven Paterson SNP, he was in power when ‘in this place’ was done finally, in 2017 Stephen Kerr of Conservative is the MP. In the 2019 General Election, it went back to the SNP While with the Holyrood since the creation in 1999 of the consistency of Stirling it has been held by Labour of the SNP only. 1999 & 2003 was Sylvia Jackson for the Labour Party, after 2007 it changed to the SNP: 2007, 2011 and 2016 are Bruce Crawford for the Scottish National Party. The voting patterns reflect the problems of wealth and poverty and this is why the Conservatives have not held it in Holyrood. 

(Wiki, 2019) (WIki, 2019)

From the series Family (1994) 

The message from the captions

The messages from the captions are done to describe what the shot is about in the place. The captions shown provide relevant information to the viewer at home to understand what the images are going to be about. The captions show some of the feelings of what her nieces and nephew children are going through and give the context to the viewer. It is important to understand that in Family (1994) the are no captions explaining about the models in some cases just there names

Leah 2016  Chick’s advice to Leah: ‘After school, get a job, a decent job, have some partying time, a wee place to stay, a wee car, meet the man of your dreams, plenty of money coming in, settle down (if serious), get a place together, everything all nice in the house...then have a family’ Kyla in her auntie Chick’s house 2016. The original three children remain close, in both emotional and physical distance. Their children live in and out of each other’s homes.

Unlike her first series of her family she has changed the mood and the tone of her shots which shows them growing up in candid and sombre shots. Unlike in Family (1994), she has chosen to focus on the outside of the flats because the family was:

 ‘Less about the place, but more about the children and their interior world’

A huge challenge was she had to represent this truthfully in her shots to use of the crucial elements of body language and story line in Documentary and Contemporary Portrait Photography, which makes the viewer understand the connections with the location. Both of the projects include the personal story of her nieces and nephew while in the latest book their children as this show family, love, loss, love and survival and exploring some questions in life and why at times it looks like they are having a train of bad luck. The location runs on a circular bus route from where the lived as a child to where the currently live they both have huge deprivation caused by housing income, health and opportunities.

I want the viewers to maybe ask themselves a question about how society operates, how choice is related to opportunity and environment. To see that lives are complex, as are wants and needs, and that sometimes people choose what they do because actually, not much has been offered in the first place.”

I believe the way that Margaret has shown the models from inside and outside it highlights the problems with areas having a huge deprivation problem. She does make her work look all-political and blame the government for doing nothing to help them out but it shows the social problems. These areas here are the ones who will do loads of protest votes to make them heard as they are ignored.

Chick and her sister Kellie From the series Family (1994).
Andrea, mother of Steven, Kellie and Chick. From the series Family (1994)
Leah From Family (1994)

How does this fit with the Contemporary and Documentary Portrait Photography

Margaret’s work is a perfect example to explore Documentary and Contemporary Portrait Photography, because she has shown, is what Morden day life is going on. Her work shows the negative power of deprivation and what the problems can come from poverty. I like how she documents and tells of a story of her family and the social and finical problems that they suffer from. With her documentary that shows her family getting together, it is interesting that with the 20-year gap that nothing has changed and that her family are together. This series works in this style because they are related and have a good relationship, in the future, I want to something similar in the future. I like that she shows the truth and she does not lie in her work she is a silent campaigner for the better shots. In the future, I will use her style to build a document series based on peoples home lives.

The series Family 1994

References Rewritten in my own words

(Mitchell, 2017). (Mitchell, 2017), (Family, 1994), (Fulleylove, 2017)

Bibliography

Family, M. M. -., 1994. Family. [Online]
Available at: http://margaretmitchell.co.uk/projects/family/
[Accessed 30 5 2018].

Fulleylove, R., 2017. Margaret Mitchell re-shoots her family over 20 years since she last photographed them. [Online]
Available at: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/margaret-mitchell-family-in-this-place-photography-110717
[Accessed 30 5 2018].

Mitchell, M., 2017. AWARDS: In This Place. [Online]
Available at: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/margaret-mitchell-in-this-place
[Accessed 30 5 2018].

Mitchell, M., 2017. In This Place. [Online]
Available at: http://margaretmitchell.co.uk/projects/in-this-place/
[Accessed 16 12 2019].

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