Unit 32 Experimental Photography Stephen Gill

Stephen Gill

Stephen Gill has inspired my experimental image below:-

*"Rostrum Camera  Set up" was used to create image
IMAGE 1

Posterised filter used in Photoshop

IMAGE 2

original montage image
IMAGE 3

Image 1 in my opinion works well because the colours and texture blend together and are visually appealing. It looks weathered and battered and gives the result that I was looking to achieve. Comparing images with my inspiration, Stephen Gill and his work; image 1 fits the bill.

Image 2 and 3 the colours are too bright and not weathered enough. They are interesting but don't quite work.
Rotation of image 1, seems more interesting and engaging as a viewer because it draws you in. This however doesn't happen in images 2 and 3 because you quickly realise that the circle is a bicycle wheel.

I can improve this task by printing a higher resolution image, or by using a better resolution camera.

Research on Stephen Gill 

Stephen Gill (born in Bristol, 1971) is a British photographer and artist.

Gill currently lives in Hackney, London, England. The area is featured in some of his work. I find his experimental work unique and exciting. His connection to the world around him and the incooperation of natural environmental things such as flowers, insects etc into his images is very innovative.


Gill's photographs have appeared in international magazines including The Guardian Weekend, Le Monde 2, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, Tank, The Telegraph Magazine, I-D magazine, The Observer, Blind Spot and Colors

Gill’s photographs have been exhibited at London’s National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Decima Gallery, Agnes B, the Victoria Miro Gallery, Galerie Zur Stockeregg, the Gun Gallery, the Photographers' Gallery, Palais des Beaux Arts, Leighton House Museum, and Haus der Kunst. He was exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in 2004.

According to Martin Parr (writing in 2004):
"Stephen Gill is emerging as a major force in British photography. His best work is a hybrid between documentary and conceptual work and for this international it is the repeated exploration of one idea, executed with the precision that makes these series so fascinating and illuminating. Gill brings a very British, understated irony into portrait and landscape photography."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Gill_(photographer)


*Rostrum Camera Set Up

References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostrum_camera