I noticed today there have been a couple of Beth Dow’s images up on Flak. For those that don’t know Dow won the book prize on offer from Blurb this year with a series entitled In the Garden that presents a series of visages of man’s encroachment upon nature. You can see the series on [...]
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Contemporary Landscape Documentary Photography -Influences and Practitioners
For the past couple of weeks I have been revisiting a lot of work I have looked at over the past few years and coming across some previously unknown to me photographers so I thought I would add a list on here of the initial photographers/movements which have been influencing my practice recently. In no [...]
Term 3 continuation…
OK, so I have been having a bit of a break from the blog after feeling a bit wiped out after the second term of the MA and went back to actually writing a physical journal for a bit just to have a little bit of a change, but never fear, it’s back to hopefully [...]
David Robinson
Not posted anything for a while so thought I would make a quick mention of the work of David Robinson -another photographer I knew when I was living in London. His work on the leisure landscape is interesting especially in light of my own recent work and comes firmly out of the tradition of [...]
Interview with Alec Soth by his intern about “Dog Days Bogotá”
I like Soth’s way of thinking, his comments about using images of the dogs instead of the children because he felt uncomfortable about only seeing the kids as a homongenus mass is especially interesting, along with the obvious personal nature of the project.
Interview: Alec Soth on “Dog Days Bogotá”
Access to Life
Access to life is a new multimedia project sponsored by The Global Fund who’s mission statement is ‘To Fight AIDS, Tubercolis and Malaria’.
The Access to Life project is a collarboration with Magnum Photos to riase awareness of the battle with AIDS worldwide and is both a multimedia website project and a travelling exhibition starting at [...]
Interview with Edward Burtynsky from The Tyee
A very informative interview with Edwrad Burtynsky can be found here on The Tyee website:
Framing Global Capitalism
A couple of quotes about his influences stand out:
“Around 1976-77, I realized that a new visual language was forming. I became aware of the work of Bern and Hilla Becher and the New Topographics group [whose photographs observe the [...]
What is beauty?
One of the questions my work on the tourist landscape will ask is what is beauty? Do our preconceived notions of romantic pictorial landscapes which have always been popular as we see in work from artists throughout history in both the East and the West prevent us from seeing the artificial as beautiful? Or do [...]
Multimedia Presentation
Ok, so for the technical aspects of the multimedia project here is how I will go about the actual production and presentation of the project.
Firstly, all images are to be captured on medium format film and then scanned to allow for high enough quality for significant pans and zooms within an image. This also has [...]
Finally getting the results I want out of Final Cut Pro
After weeks of stress I am finally getting my pans to work without the nasty interlacing problem (if that is indeed what it is called).
I will be using this technique to add animation to my images by panning across several images during different parts of the multimedia and mix this in with still images. The [...]
A little bit about my image numbering system
Keeping track of your images is vitally important, especially now with digital systems being so widespread. Coming from a history of shooting film as well as digital, I thought it might be of interest to some who read this to find out exactly how I go about numbering my images because it appears a complex [...]
Multimedia and the landscape
As my tourism work progresses more towards the landscape I have been exploring different methods of using multimedia to dispaly the work.
The Washington Post has this piece with images collated from various wire services on Dubai that they term multimedia but is really just a slideshow:
Dubai’s Changing Landscape
Time Magazine have a piece entitled Memories In [...]
Reign of Sand: Inner Mongolia
Mike sent me this link off his blog about desertification. The video is interesting visually because it deals with the landscape in a very quiet and simple way. The use of the pans could cross over well to the medium format work I am shooting for the tourism story.
Desert Overtaking Inner Mongolia
More Xinghai Images
Here are a few more images from my test shoots in Xinghai. Should have an example Multimedia presentation within the next week up here as well.
Just remember, no stealing. If you want to use them for anything or want a print just pop me an email at dave@davewyatt.co.uk and I’ll provide you with more information.
Multimedia methodology
Ok, so after discussing with Ulla more about how to make my portrayal of the Russian tourists in Dalian work as a multimedia piece it is becoming clear I am going to need to at the least animate the still images so that they can work as a multimedia piece -not just as a straight [...]
Kiruna:A Town in the Swedish Arctic
Continuing on the millennium Images theme I just found this fantastic series of work by an old colleague of mine Adam Shawyer. Really interesting to see how his work has progressed in the past 6 years since we were stuck in a production department in London together.
Kiruna: A Town in the Swedish Arctic
Pieter Hugo -The Hyena and Other Men
Not strictly relevant to my current work but I can’t not put a link up to this because I have been showing my contemporaries this work for the past couple of weeks. His work absolutely blows me away. A completely different depiction of Africa than I have seen before in anything ranging from the stereotypical [...]
Magnum in Motion piece on 60 years of China
Only just looked at this and its an interesting use of multimedia -I know the use of music is a bit cliched but I like the way they emphasise the progress of history through the use of the year coming up before each series of images.
A Flipbook on China
Plus obviously the photography is kind of [...]
Mark Power
Just had another look at Mark Power’s website and he is now embracing mutlimedia -combining his imagery with the poetry of Daniel Cockrill.
His large format imagery is an inspiration in many ways. I will post more specific examples of the pieces I mean later, but for now, here is his website.
Mark Power
Landscape and multimedia
The more I do work on research for this project the more it is becoming apparent that in the first instance it should be a body of work about the relationship between the tourists and their environment. It is forming a kind of test for my strategy of combining multimedai and the landscape -using audio [...]
