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.