Three photographers who use shadows in their work

Rosie Hardy 

She uses shadows to represent feelings she's having in real life, her photos have a personal backstory which she uses as the groundings of her work. They're very effective in showing emotions and making you reflect on your own life and personal worries.

Richard Vantielcke 

His use of shadows is very striking, he puts a lot of focus on the sharpness and shape of his shadows. Some of his work puts across very strong messages. 

Edward Steichen 

The shadows Steichen use's in his portraits are very intense, which brings harsh lines and shapes to the human body, they show a lot of emotion and with the blank backgrounds makes the figure stand out even more. 

Three Photographers who make photograms

Ethan Jantzer

Jantzer's photograms are really interesting to look at, as they show objects that you usually see moving and he captures them very well, with a range of bright colours.
He uses strange tools for his work such as the drink Gatorade as it comes in a range of colours and is cheap to acquire.  To get these results he uses a range of flashes at different angles which creates unique outcomes. 

Floris Neususs

What attracted me to this work was the change in tones from the harsh lines to soft, where parts of the body are further away. He aims to create a sense of surreal detachment and these pieces, to me, appear alienated from something that isn't in the photogram.
On the women's body piece, her hands and lower body is on the photograph paper which shows sharp shapes, whereas her knee and upper body is away from the paper which gives it a blurred effect.

The chair piece is where a photogram of a man sat on a chair is under the actual chair. It's titled 'Be right back' to show the man's absence, which adds to Neususs' work being a performance of some kind. 

Dave Eva

Eva creates cards, each card is a unique photogram. He uses plants he finds on his travels, which he uses for either small card photograms or those of a larger size. To create this effect he shines light onto plants which are on top of some photographic paper.  

Stefan Sagmeister & Noma Bar

 Stefan Sagmeister -
What I like about his work is that it's quite inspiring with his use of typography and choice of words. It also shows that his work takes a lot of time and effort. It inspires me to try to create something along similar lines but words that have personal meaning to me.

 Noma Bar -
Her work is very creative, it's catching to the eye as they often show two images in one, making your mind race in trying to decipher it's message. It looks incredibly simple but it takes skill to create something with a double meaning. Very inspirational work.

 These are pieces I've which are focused on composition, shape & colour.
We had a series of objects which we looked at through a viewfinder and took in the basic shapes and colour.
From that I created pieces using a range of materials (collage, pen, oil pastels, newspaper & masking tape).

After producing several pieces I reflected on them, kept a few as they were and changed a few.
The changes I made included ripping or cutting them up and rearranging them. Drawing over them and spraying them with water.

I'm happy with the work I've done. Some fit into a good series. I like the compositions and the fact I stuck to the same colours in all pieces.
There is a couple of pieces that I felt didn't work well, but it's good practise and show's what things I've explored.

3D work: Transform

I was given the word Transform and from that I had to research around it and select a concept to develop.
I chose the route of nature and how that changes & transforms as it grows. I took a lot of pictures of trees & leaves, whilst also collecting leave samples.
I first made the tree out of wire & another out of a paper, from that I began to look at leaves. I actually used leaves in the process of some of these pieces, attaching them to copies of leaves & using wire to create a sculpture.

 I was pleased with the outcomes of my work, each piece was quite small but I made a fair few. If I had more time I would've like to have created something bigger with wire, as I enjoyed working with that material most.

'Homage to the artist' Thomas Heatherwick

This was my first 3D piece based on Heatherwick's Olympic Sculpture. I used plastic folder dividers to create the funnel shape, used straws to keep them upright and wrapper coloured sugar paper around it.
I used different colour's in reference to his other work with different coloured fabric.
I'm not too pleased with the outcome as it doesn't look neat enough and looks too much like a bouquet of flowers. One thing I do like is the shape of the folder dividers they turned out really well. I think if I had more time and different materials I would've created something neater which was able to stand up on it's own.

 This felt piece was just a experiment to see how it would look layered. I didn't have enough to create a bigger piece. I think that if I had more materials, I could have stitched pieces together which I think would look really nice.
This is based on his coloured material piece.

 This is another based on Heatherwick's fabric piece. I liked how the layering of the paper worked well and I think the colour is good. I used little sticky pads between each piece of paper so that it created so height. It gives it a good depth like a flight of stairs.
If made bigger I think it would look really effective.

 This piece is loosely based on his bridge piece. I like how the shape of the paper turned out and that you could unravel the roll and turn it into something else if left with a creative imagination. if I had used card it may have been easier to manage and I could of constructed something with better movement. Again the colours were based of his fabric piece but I think they go well with it's shape.

Contexual Studies Assignment

Comparison of Thomas Heatherwick and Anish Kapoor.

Both are designer/sculptors. With very imaginative ideas. What drew me to these two artists were their use of materials & shape.
Kappor for example, goes from reflective mirror material to sand, and Heatherwick uses wood and fabric. The shapes they go for are very atheistically pleasing to the eye and draw viewer's attention.

In comparison the pair are both very similar and very different. Similar in the way that their ideas are very out there, new, exciting, completely different and unique, but different in how Heatherwick appears to work in layers whereas Kapoor mostly has one surface area.