Initial ideas: Work with reflections with water and windows.

 

Research starting points:

Naoya Hatakeyama is 65 years old, from Japan. Most of his reflection photos are focused on urban photography but not like usual symmetrical water reflection shots. He flips them over and specifically focuses on the reflection itself. He does not go for a crystal clear reflection like a mirror but has it slightly blurred. A lot of his photos are cool colors and leaning towards low key, setting up a kind of a low mood and sad feeling.

Lisette Model 81 one years, old from Austria. A lot of her black and white reflection photos are focused on urban landscape and includes people in her photos by using windows. These are similar to double exposures, and has very dramatic effects and also adds on a very surreal feeling to the photos. This feeling is further on increased as she makes the people in her photos, almost the same height as the tall buildings.

Antonio Gutiérrez Pereira is a photographer from Vigo, Spain. He uses glass to make distorted reflections on peoples faces. Most of his reflection work is black and white.

                                                                                                   

Vision and statement of intent:

The project I will be working on will be “Reflections: Capturing the Essence of Urban Impressions”. I want my audience to get a new look at urban landscape by reflecting urban landscape by water and windows. I will get more inspiration by finding more photographers on the internet  that shows urban landscape through a lens of reflection.

Set 1 photographer:

William Cho is a freelance graphic designer/photographer from Singapore. In his reflection work most of it is urban landscape and usually pictures taken at a rather late time to capture the light of the architects. His reflection pictures are symmetrical top to bottom and really shows urban landscape in a unique way.

Set 2 photographer:

Jim Plaxco is a digital artist and photographer. He uses reflections in modern day buildings windows to capture slightly distorted reflections of other buildings. All the buildings he choses to use to reflect other buildings are tall and mostly windows to get the most reflection out of it.

Reflect:

By researching the starting points i got a very inspired by different artist that would use reflections in many many ways that i have never even thought about before. It also gave me a good idea of what types of artist i want to look into to inspire my project. By looking at other artist pictures i learnt techniques like using long exposure when trying to capture reflection in water so the reflection looks more smooth. By looking William Cho’s water reflection pictures it really inspired my composition to have it perfectly symmetrical top to bottom, and by looking into Jim Plaxco’s reflection work with windows it really inspired me to try to get slightly distorted pictures of other buildings by reflecting it with a building thats mostly glass. I think the “some sub theme ideas to inspire” really helped me out when it comes to when it comes to inspiring and helping me develop mu understanding of the starting point as it gave more options as to what i can do with reflection and it was very detailed with more background info of the artist helping me understand the pictures and why they take these pictures better.