FMP - Final Evaluation

Here is what my final exhibition looked like. I have taken photographs from both ends of the corridoor to get a full view of the images. I am really pleased with how it all turned out and I am glad that I didn't go with my original plan to display one or two images on a very large scale. I am especially pleased with my A0 square tile print. I also really like how the book looks when it is displayed on a little white shelf. It looks very neat, organised and professional.

  

Here is my large A0 print. I wanted to display a group of photos in a tile format. I decided that I wanted to crop some of my images into squares so that they looked even more abstract. At first I wanted to do a square piece comprising of 9 images. I then decided against this and thought that a long vertical piece would look more interesting. I started placing images into the A0 file in photoshop randomly. I liked that idea but I noticed that some of the lines were joining up from different pictures. I then played around with composition and flipped some of my images to make the lines meet. I really liked the way it was looking so I decided to make them all horizontal even if they weren't originally shot that way. This made them even more abstract. I really love the leading lines on this piece and how the colours all work together. Personally I think that I could have just displayed this in the exhibition alone and it would have looked great. This is my favourite part of my FMP exhibition. I just love this piece and love how all the images link together and how it looks so abstract. I love the colours compared to the other 4 images that I displayed which were all black, white and grey. I could see an image like this displayed in my house or in a foyer of an office building.

These are 3 of the 4 images which I displayed in my exhibition. My initial idea was to display 1 or 2 or possibly all of these on a very large scale (A0 or bigger). I'm glad that I didn't decide to do this because I think the exhibition would have looked too dull. I especially like these three images as they are very abstract and you can't tell what they are. I think they work well in my exhibition and compliment my big print but I don't think they would have looked as good if they were on their own without my big A0 tile print.

Graphic outcome :

For my graphic outcome I decided to create a book. I have created a few books in previous projects and really enjoy making them. I thought that a book would be more appropriate for the type of project I was doing where there were lots of images to look at, rather than a poster or a banner which would have most likely only displayed one photograph. I chose to create a square book because I thought it would make my images look even more abstract if I cropped into them and made them square. It would take them even further out of context and that is what I wanted from this project. I displayed them in the book with a little bit of white space around them and the name of ths street in which the images were taken written underneath. I thought this would be interesting as anyone who knows York would be able to think about where the images were taken and be surprised at what they were looking at. I chose to create a hard back book because I thought it would look more professional. I wanted my book and prints to be of the highest possible quality. I think the hard back also relates to the fact that my images are of architecture and buildings and they are quite strong with lots of straight lines. I designed the book myself and then ordered it online through Jessops. I had to allow myself enough time for delivery before the exhibition, but luckily it arrived in time.

Artist's statement :

Here is my artists statement which was displayed in the exhibition. It looks smart when it is printed and mounted on foam board. I think I kept it fairly short and to the point which is what I wanted. I didn't want to go on about what techniques I used and say "I did this..." etc. I think my artists statement looks professional and therefore it worked the way I wanted it to.

Here is me standing with my exhibition. I am very proud of myself for what I've achieved on this project and what I've achieved on the course altogether. I thought that my final major project would be very daunting and be a lot of hard work. There was a lot of work to do but it didn't seem like that because I could choose to photograph whatever I wanted and this meant I enjoyed doing it. Architecture photography is definitely something that I really enjoy, and I will keep on photographing architecture in the future.



FMP - Artists Statement

Liz Cage

Destination: Studio Assistant and Printmaker at Digital Image, York

Project Title: Unseen York

York is photographed by millions of tourists every year, but what may be the biggest attraction, may not be the most beautiful. This collection of images shows aspects of architecture that may often go unnoticed. Inspired by the work of Aaron Siskind and Suzanne Mooney, who both photograph architecture in a flat way to create shapes, the images investigate line, colour, shape and surface, and display architecture as an art form. 

FMP - Mid Term Review & Planning the exhibition

Mid Term Review :

Here are the images that I presented at my mid term review. I printed 4 of my images out and stuck them up on the wall in the classroom. My classmates then discussed my images and how the project should take shape. The overall feedback was they liked the third image because it was very abstract, and because I was aiming to photograph architecture in an abstract way they thought that I should try and go even more abstract. They said that the images on the left and right were too obvious as to what they were - brick walls. I can agree with what they are saying because I do like to make things look really abstract but I like the colours in those two images as they are warmer than the other two. I am going to take on board the feedback from my classmates and try and photograph things in an even more abstract way. I am going to really consider my composition when I am photographing and think outside the box. I may try cropping my images into squares to see if that makes things look more interesting. I have always loved square pictures and think they are really aesthetically pleasing.





Planning the exhibition :

For my exhibition I would either like to display my images on a very large scale and only display two or three images so that they have a big impact on the viewer and they speak for themselves. On the other hand I would quite like to have a fair few images to show for the work that I've been doing over my project and have a grid of lots of different photographs. This would mean cropping them into a square format and montaging them together. I love square photographs so I might be slightly more interested in doing this, but I am going to consider both ways of displaying my images and plan my final exhibition by drawing out how it will look and mapping out different compositions.

Square prints :

Here I have created this layout of how I could display my images if I was to crop them down for my final exhibition. I have used a lot of white space here, and I can't decide whether I like it or not. It could work with the images and emphasise their simplicity, but then again I don't know if it looks too pale and doesn't show the images off like they should be. I have used 9 images here. I'm not sure how many I want to show. I could make them stand alone and display just two or three, or display them like this and have about 9, or I could have lots of images displayed quite small and have 20 or 30 images.

Here I have montaged 16 images together, this time not using any white space. In a way I think this looks more organised than the image above which has lots of white space, but then again I don't know if it looks too cluttered and your eye doesn't know where to look. This might make viewers look closely at my images and study them and look at details, but then again they might think it's too much and walk away and not look at it. It might be quite nice to have all the lines merging into each other from one image to another and all the lines follow each other somehow.



Graphic outcome :

I need to produce a graphic outcome for my FMP. This could be a magazine, a video, a projection, a book, a poster, a banner etc. I would like to produce a book for my graphic outcome. I would like to produce a hard back book to display my work in because this relates to the hardness of architecture and the strong lines and shapes within my images. I want to produce a book rather than a poster or a projection because I have a lot of pictures to display. I really like the look of how the square images have turned out in the images above, so I might create a square book. 

FMP - Fifth Shoot

FMP - Fourth shoot