Level 4 Space and Place - Bethany Corbett

 After Shoot 3 and 4 being so successful with the purple filter, I have decided I certainly want to use that in my final images, as the connotations with the colour being magical, mystical and otherworldly is incredibly relevant and I really want my images to have that feeling about them. My final images to choose from are: After all the shoots I have done I am really into the way light can give the sense of a presence and so I certainly want to pick images that not only have the feeling of a living presence but also a supernatural presence, which will play with the idea of witches, and also represent the women who found sanctuary at the tree. It will be more like what people thought the witches to be, after all they weren't really magical yet people thought so at the time. I initially wanted to present just three photographs in a line, each one with a different light technique. I wasn't sure which ones and came up with a few templates; ...

Traditionally, a Diptych refers to something that presented in twos that are connected using a hinge of some sort. The idea and use of diptychs have been around since the middle ages, where they were used to celebrate weddings, becoming a well respected roman, or for private use. Often, they came in the form of panel paintings, but ivory was also used more religious scenes. However, Diptychs also mean things that are presented in pairs, including photographs. They can be used to tell two parts of a story, or to simply show two images that relate to each other. It's often thought, however, that for a successful diptych the two images must be able to work as a single image alone and not rely on the other.  "The word diptych comes from the Greek root "dis", meaning "two," and "ptykhe," meaning "fold."" In this example by Jay Watson ( Faces ) the two presented images are not of the same subject, however they repr...

I honestly wasn't very inspired for this shoot but thought I ought to experiment further and so went an did it anyway. However, because my motivation, mental health and inspiration were running low the images aren't my favourite, but they do work. From the beginning I wanted to experiment with having people in my images, but then as a I played around with light I changed my mind and wanted to show the presence of people without showing them. With this shoot I met both ideas halfway. I started with the idea of tracing a noose in light, however it just looked gimmicky and I soon scrapped it. I want this series to be meaningful yet classy. I want it to be respectful. I then went ahead and and played around with more light trails as we had tried before. These were much more effective however they didn't seem to have much relevance to the tree or the history behind it. I then tried lighting my feet as I walked in front of the camera, which worked a lot better ...

Joan Fontcuberta is a well known photographer, mainly for his stranger than fiction images. In fact, his work was exhibited in a 'Stranger than Fiction' exhibition. Born in 1955, the Spanish photographer claims he doesn't believe in documentary approaches, stating that “Reality does not exist by itself. It's an intellectual construction; and photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality.” I really admire this way of thinking, as somebody not too keen on simply portraying the obvious and the real within photography. The Guardian states "Although he is often defined as a conceptualist, Fontcuberta is as much a contextualist, whose projects adopt and borrow from the authoritative tones, languages, contexts and constructions that are used to legitimize photographic materials (and vice versa) – archival materials, scientific jargon, journalistic articles, academic texts, and so on – in order to subvert them" I feel this is also relevant to my ...