Unit 32 Experimental Photography Uta Barth Inspired Work

Unit 35 Experimental Photography Uta Barth Inspired Work

Utha Barth w introduced to me by Sian Gouldstone in September 2012 at the beginning of my journey on the BTEC L3  Diploma Photography. Her images made an impression on me straight away! I love the way she uses light in her images. The images are abstract but are full of movement because the travels through the picture taking the viewer with it.

The work is refreshing and visually vibrant. Bouncing light in the forefront of the image gives a hint of what is beyond.

She has been a inspiration of my series of images below:-

Image 1

The abstract imagery created in Image 1  plays with the visual memory and perception of what has been created. The composition gives a ghost like memory of the original image that was captured.

Image 2

My favorite is image 2 its a image composite of a bottle taken with a slow shutter speed, overlayed with an image (again with show shutter speed) of light bouncing on a sunny day outside the college.

I feel the image draws you in with the streams light and there is a hint of a car and bottle outline. The colours blend through the image well.

Barth intentionally depicts mundane or incidental objects in nondescript surroundings in order to focus attention on the fundamental act of looking and the process of perception. I tied to recreate this by taking a picture of a green plastic bottle with a slow shutter speed and overlaying it with an equally mundane scene on  the college road.

The images below were used to create image 2