FMP WEEK 20 (WC: 12/04/2021)
As emphasised in my last blog post, my focus was on gaining photographic content. After researching some philosophical theories and ideas, I became inspired on my walk around Brighton one day when I had no intention of finding content. I also stated in his last blog post that my most effective work has been produced when I stop overthinking which is why it made sense that when I was on a walk I was able to clear my head and create some more content for my magazine. I took a walk to Shoram and documented the journey along the way and once I got there, there were a variety of images mainly around the seafront and a different streets. I found the experience very interesting because I was exploring a place that I didn’t know that well, forcing me to think outside the box in terms of what pictures I was taking as I didn’t know what to look for. The overall experience was very positive as I always have enjoyed taking photographs but within the realms of fashion, i don’t find myself as passionate about photography. However, this could be seen as a good thing as this would allow me to create photographic images which are more experimental in terms of style and editing because being able to take a picture and collage / edit in photoshop is more suited to my style of working than to carefully construct an editorial shoot. Which led me to my decision previously to not include any typical editorials within my magazine. my style is more ‘zine’ like; very experimental, visual based, graphic- I’ve made something similar as my final project for my foundation course but Sentient Magazine would be a massive step up, showing my improvement in graphic design, which is what I aim to pursue post university.
Overall I am pleased with the quality of the content I produced. I decided to go on some more walks and take pictures in different areas of Brighton. The main theme regarding these images was to document a place that holds a lot of character which is usually known for being hectic and chaotic but shown in a way which provokes questions and changes the way the place is perceived. In this case, I was documenting various places in Brighton and exploring how they made me feel through the images I was producing. By capturing frequent close ups, shots of patterns, details, unusual designs, obscure and random words or phrases as well as seemingly abandon areas, I was evoking a certain atmosphere through the bleak and desolate landscape. I wanted to show the parts of Brighton and Sussex which completely changed the usual perspective, to show an individual’s view on certain areas of Brighton, and how the peaceful parts of the city can become the most hidden or unacknowledged.
As I found the whole experience extremely positive, I wanted to take some more images, resulting in me modelling for a spontaneous shoot involving in mainly capturing a human face, as my intentions were to take these images and distort them into something completely different. I found the actual contact sheet of images quite strong as they feature me in several different interesting poses, emphasising the complexity of the human form and the different ways we can manually distort our bodies to produce unique outcomes. I used a fish eye lens on Instagram as this further distorted the features but in a subtle way which would allow me the freedom to still play around with them on Photoshop.
