Happening – Memory

I use a series of photos to make a flash. These photos I took at a crossroad near London Bridge. If I put them on the surface according to priority, they look like a moving film. However, I made them a flash, a digital way.

Of course, this method is not special, but it is interesting. In 1887, the technique of camera was not so advanced as today. Eadweard Muybridge used his camera to take many pictures to make his work ‘Cockatoo, flying, plate’. These works are amazing. The photos present every details of a happening thing.

My idea has a little similar with Eadweard Muybridge’s work. However, I do not just want to express a happening thing. I made every photo in different sizes and transparencies to express some feelings of our memory. The first picture is the biggest, but is has the least transparency. The last one is the minimum, but it is clearest. You just want to remember something, but this thing is always ‘running’.

I also did a physical work with these photos. It has different feelings. Maybe I can took a photo of it, but it is hark to ‘stand up’. However, I will take it to my unit 1 assessment.

ATLAS GALLERY – A FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY

I know this gallery because I searched some exhibitions about photography in London. Then I found its website. In its website, you can see its latest exhibitions and also its online exhibitions. I love to surf this website.

I love to use my camera to record my life and I always find something interesting when I am using my camera. Watching some exhibitions in this gallery, I can have some inspirations about photography. For example, an online exhibition now in its website is called ‘ELLIOTT ERWITT SEQUENTIALLY YOURS – PHOTO SEQUENCES OR INDECISIVE MOMENTS’. It shows a series of photos and they can be connected together to show a complete scene. However, these photos are separated and the objects in them are in the same size. They show a matter happening. I just feel they look like a short movie. The photographers use photos which are graphic things to express a moving thing, which is interesting. I mean the form is worth thinking. And I will think if I use camera to express this moving feeling, what I will do?

Finally, I think this gallery is worth following. The photos it exhibits are always amazing.

Butts in Paris

People in Paris are also throw butts in the streets. I can see many butts in the streets in Paris.

One interesting thing is that garbage cans in Paris are like this:

If people throw the butts into this 'garbage can', maybe it will burn? And I found butts inside it:

Maybe people in Paris are familiar with this situation, they know they need to put out the cigarettes when they throw the butts into these 'garbage cans'.

Interesting Photos

When I found this, I thought it was beautiful, but how could them be cleaned?

Visitors + Work = Another Work

In Paris, I visited Louvre. I love it! I enjoy paitings, sculptures and other works in it. They are all wonderful. However, there were too many people there, so I couldn't watch every piece of work carefully. When I came back, I found many photos were people who were in front of what I wanted to take photograph of. I found it was interesting.

Mona Lisa and Visitors

Venus and Visitors

Because there were too many people standing in front of Venus, so I just could go back of her to take photos.

Sometimes, I think what will be look like when I am standing in front of a piece of work and thinking. At that moment, can I understand that work? Can I 'speak' to the designer who make the work? This communication between visitor and work can also be a new work.

The Nature creates it. We make it become a work.

This is Stonehenge. It exists many years ago. Nobody knows who move these huge stones here and how they do this. When people found them, they thought they were beautiful. Then people protect these stones like the photo as below:

These stones are here. The Nature continue to creat them. Maybe one day they will disappear because of erosion by wind and rain. It is a piece of work. People in the world should know this work which created by the Nature. We appreciate it and admire the creativity of Nature.

I heard of many designers would like to watch programmes of National Geographic. They love to enjoy the nature. Actually I think we are living in this world, we should keep a harmonious relationship with the nature. And many things the nature creats for us are perfect, we should learn and understand the nature, then use what we know from the nature to make more good works.

Function Changed

WINDSOR CASTLE

Many visitors went there to watch this castle!

Windsor Castle was designed for the Royal Families to live, but now it is also a tourist attraction.

In fact, many buildings today have this ‘function’, such as Swiss Re Tower. Design can make the work has its original function. Attracting people’s eyes, design also can make the work become a piece of art for watching.

Roman Baths in Bath is the same as Windsor Castle.



Use My Camera!

I love to use camera to record my life and do some works. Maybe at the beginning, I just like a normal person to use camera to remember something interesting in my life, but when I deal with these photos, sometimes I found that I became a designer at some moments and these photos could be made as a work.

In this holiday, I traveled to some places and used my camera to record my trips. I visited Windsor Castle, Oxford, Bath, Stonehenge and some countries in Europe. I can understand more about Western Culture through these trips. I will show some pictures and write down what I think……