Developing, refining, & documenting
Friday's workshop with Bill was really exciting and productive. We played (seriously) with tools and materials, thinking about the relationship between making, performing and photographing. Now, it's time to:
- develop and refine your still and moving images
- imaginatively document your work over the two days
- reflect on the links between the workshop and your chosen investigation starting point E.g. unusual portraiture, the human condition, ritual, openings or architecture
- produce a resolved outcome (an extension of the images/videos you made in the workshop) E.g. a video, a sequence of photographs, a photozine, an installation etc. This outcome should be influenced by what you learned with Bill and relate directly to your chosen investigation.
Here are a few prompts for you to consider when telling the story of Friday's workshop. Don't forget to illustrate your explanation with plenty of images/videos:
- What did you know about Bill Leslie's practice before the workshop? What kind of art does he make and what is he interested in exploring?
- What expectations did you have about the workshop? What were you hoping to learn? How did you feel beforehand?
- What did Bill say about the way people usually make photographs? What did he want you to try to do differently?
- What was your team's role - disrupting the cameras's view, making a floor-based structure, experimenting with textures or populating the structure with objects?
- What kinds of materials and tools did you use - torches, cardboard, fabric, paper, plasticine, iPads/iPhones, bridge cameras, camera obscura, DSLR, digital projector etc?
- What kinds of pictures did you make during the workshop - still/moving, documents, portraits, experimental abstractions etc?
- What activities did you take part in on the day? What was new or surprising? What did you find challenging? What did you enjoy most?
- What connections have you made between the experiments in Friday's workshop and your chosen investigation? How might you use one or more of the ideas from the workshop in your ongoing investigation?
Here are a few prompts to help you develop a response to the workshop based on your chosen investigation:
Unusual Portraiture:
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The Human Condition:
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Ritual:
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Openings:
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Architecture:
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A message from Bill
Hello everyone,
Thanks again for all your hard work on Friday. Lots of really exciting things happened. I thought one really interesting thing that was said was that play can be a serious business. It's 6 o'clock on Saturday morning and I'm watching my daughter play with some clothes pegs and a basket. She's 18 months old (cute) and she's picking out the pegs one by one and taking them over to a little space under the table and making a pile. She's concentrating really hard on what she's doing. She's playing but she's so serious! I think I do a lot of this as an artist, or try to, and I saw some of it on Friday when you were all working together. We don't get to play much as we get older. Some people play sports but these games have rules already so it's not quite the same. My daughter is finding out the rules of her game by playing it and it changes as things take her by surprise or she has a new idea. We have to do this all the time as artists. We have to work out what it is we're doing as we go along. This is one of the best things about being an artist but also one of the hardest.
These are images from a project I did for Brighton Photo Fringe. I think the last 2 could be useful. Can Light Transform Sculpture? was with an A-level Photography group and quite similar to some of what we did today. It was done with long exposures and a strobe light.
http://b-leslie.blogspot.com/2016/10/brighton-photo-fringe-participation-16_25.html
Bill
Thanks again for all your hard work on Friday. Lots of really exciting things happened. I thought one really interesting thing that was said was that play can be a serious business. It's 6 o'clock on Saturday morning and I'm watching my daughter play with some clothes pegs and a basket. She's 18 months old (cute) and she's picking out the pegs one by one and taking them over to a little space under the table and making a pile. She's concentrating really hard on what she's doing. She's playing but she's so serious! I think I do a lot of this as an artist, or try to, and I saw some of it on Friday when you were all working together. We don't get to play much as we get older. Some people play sports but these games have rules already so it's not quite the same. My daughter is finding out the rules of her game by playing it and it changes as things take her by surprise or she has a new idea. We have to do this all the time as artists. We have to work out what it is we're doing as we go along. This is one of the best things about being an artist but also one of the hardest.
These are images from a project I did for Brighton Photo Fringe. I think the last 2 could be useful. Can Light Transform Sculpture? was with an A-level Photography group and quite similar to some of what we did today. It was done with long exposures and a strobe light.
http://b-leslie.blogspot.com/2016/10/brighton-photo-fringe-participation-16_25.html
Bill
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Workshop 'products' - stills & video
Jake's pictures from Monday:
The following video files can be downloaded using this link.
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