Final Work Displayed

Hanging my final print on the wall in the Photography Block hallway. 

My final piece hung

Final Piece + Rationale

“Exposed”

I want to re-define the way people think about exposure to the sun.

This series takes a critical position on the contemporary concern of humankind’s relationship to the environment and brings attention to the fact that light (UV) causes skin cancer. Humankind effected the environment by causing the ozone hole and now the environment is effecting humans back by giving them skin cancer due to more ultra violet rays being let in through the ozone hole.

These are pictures of bodies, but by de-contextualising them and photographing only parts of them, they can start to take on new meaning. I selected images that reflected the idea of cancer and cells and then projected them onto these bodies to convey ideas about how light can effect our skin. The way the light hits the skin starts to form correlations with how the light hits the surface of earth. By physically projecting onto bodies, the subject matter looks much more tangible and evokes stronger feelings in the viewer.

By presenting this work in the style of a specimen poster, it forces the viewer to look from image to image and examine the differences and similarities in each while re-evaluating their own position on the topic. The photographs have been cropped into circles to reflect the key ideas of the sun and the earth; the ozone hole and moles, sunspots, and cancerous cells.

These images are deliberately simplistic and quite ambiguous to provoke thought and allow viewers to draw their own conclusions.

Series Name

I have decided to call my final series "Exposed" as it has a double meaning in relation to my work. It harks back to my medium - photography, and it connects to my topic through ideas about being exposed to the sun/harmful UV light.

Printing

I had to go and get my final work printed at a professional printing bureau in town because my A1 sized poster was too big to print off of one of the Photography Department's printers at uni.

I went to Ink Digital and got my poster printed on 160gsm paper.

Test Print

I printed out an A3 tile from my A1 poster to check the resolution and brightness of my images before I go and get them professionally printed.

Making My A1 Poster

Working out my grid; how many images I could put on an A1 poster, and how big my gutters would need to be.

During the process of laying out my 10x10cm images on the A1 document.
I chose the size of 10cm x 10 cm as this is the size of petri dishes which relates my images back to science.
(N.B. I haven't considered the placement of each individual image to create diversity and flow at this point. I know that I want to mix up extreme close ups that are more ambiguous with images which give more of an idea of the body.)

Editing My Final Images

Original Photograph

Altered the angle, edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Altered the angle, edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Altered the angle, edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle, masked out her hair

Original Photograph

Edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Altered the angle, edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Altered the angle, edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Altered the angle, edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Altered the angle, edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Altered the angle, edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Altered the angle, edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Altered the angle, edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Altered the angle, edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Edited brightness, saturation and hue, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle, masked out her hair

Original Photograph

Edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Altered the angle, edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Original Photograph

Altered the angle, edited brightness and saturation, cropped into a circle

Week 12 Critique With Shaun (Wednesday)

First Test Print

Shaun was having open hours on Wednesday afternoon so I went and got a final critique of my work from him. I really wanted to talk about whether my work was fitting the brief or not as I had played around making my series of images into digital montages, but I didn't like them and I wanted to keep them pared back to just photographs.

Shaun assured me that I had digitally manipulated my images enough to fulfil the brief and agreed with me that the images looked best by themselves, not with anything overlaid on top. He liked the size I printed them (10cm x 10cm) for my test print (just on Massey's laser printers). I told him about my specimen poster idea for presenting them and he liked it, but he wanted the poster to be A1 (rather than A3 or even A2) so that when it was up on the wall it had presence and commanded attention.

Specimen Posters

I think that I am going to format my images onto one piece of paper as though they are specimens. I like this idea as I think it relates the work that I have produced back to the underlying base ideas of science and medicine. I also think that this is a good way to present a lot of different yet similar images on a wall. Because my images are quite ambiguous I want viewers to have to examine them and reflect on them as though they are specimens.