A photograph by a photographer under the name of ‘DamianKuzdak’ on iStock shows a deer in the mist with the letterbox crop. The deer is almost a silhouette and is slightly centre of the image. I find this inspirational to my own wildlife images. They’ve done several other wildlife images however not always in the […]
A photographer under the name of ‘FotoVoyager’ on iStock has many letterbox cropped images of landscapes and cityscapes The images are fully filled without overcrowding it and work well with the crop. His nature and reflection photographs are my favourite from this photographer’s portfolio. His images are likely successful for their beautiful scenery and appeal […]
W Bently took macro photographs of snowflakes and is famous for being one of the first known photographers to capture snowflakes. He photographed his first snowflake in 1885, January 15th. He made a monograph illustrated with over 2,500 pictures of snowflakes called ‘Snow Flakes’; it was published shortly before his death which was caused by […]
Peter beard put together a series of photos he took in Kenya, showing the twentieth century disasters in the area specifically due to hunting. He photographs many hunted animals whilst occasionally showing the live ones, creating a mixture of work. The photographs he does take of live animals look spectacular, using depth of field to […]
Joan is a wildlife photographer whose series of photographs in their project ‘Stranger than fiction’ is a unique experiment, creating false photographs of wildlife and other nature aspects. Their short trailer for his film explains a great amount of detail for his aims and reasoning behind the project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px2_usjIksE “I’m interested in creating ambiguity; In […]
“Everybody collects something, sometime” This book shows a collection of artwork, at small or mass amounts and I felt it links to my project strongly. The book is a collection of essays on these collections with images amongst the text. The book documents collecting, storing and archiving as something artists tend to do. I felt this book […]
Andrew Kotting was a guest lecturer at our university, in which he spoke of his many works including one of his most known ‘Gallivant’. I was already under acknowledgement of this film, having seen part of it before. The film follows the travels with him, his daughter and her grandmother around the coast. His daughter has Joubert syndrome […]
Koyaanisqatsi is a 1982 film by Godfrey Reggio, containing no dialogue or plot other than images with photographic editing tecnhiques and beautifully captured content. He uses a mixture of sped up footage, slowed down, time lapse and video for this film, documenting nature and the world around us. The music always perfectly suits the scene its […]
During an exhibition at the Kingsway Campus, University of Chester, I gained an insight to other photobooks for inspiration of my photbook aspect of the project ‘Forget Me Not’. One of the photobooks I looked into had a very personal-feel done to it. In the first photograph I took, it shows handwritten writing scanned into the […]
Terrance Malick is the writer and director of several films but less than most film writers. This is because he is considered as an artist for most of his work and spends longer on his work. The film I’m drawn to from his work is his film ‘The Tree of Life’. It has many aspects […]
Jade Coxon Photography 