My images represent on almost locked piece of our mind of when we were younger and interacted with toys differently from how we do today. Most adults nowadays see toys as just plastic and worthless things with nothing connected to them, whereas children see them as individual characters with personality.
My images attempt to show a funny interaction between the 3D figures and the natural world. I have used a close-up macro lens and a wide aperture to give split focus. I have used bright colours and a low angle. These images make me smile in a world of stress and anxiety.
Skyscrapers represent the power and prestige of our city Birmingham. These skyscrapers show the regeneration of Birmingham. Also, Birmingham seems to be known as a bad place and I am here to show how beautiful the city is and show our best architecture in the second city, with a specific focus on our skyscrapers. My aim in these pictures is to show how Birmingham has developed as a city, with amazing architecture. I am trying to show that Birmingham is not as bad as some may believe.
For my creative independent project, I set myself the challenge of documenting a specific location in Birmingham called Digbeth. The focus of these images was to capture graffiti, murals and wall drawings depicting a wide range of subjects and themes. The rational for doing this was to highlight the topic issues and themes within this street art.
I’ve tried to capture the atmosphere within each environment, through the art work. By capturing the street and the art work I have attempted to frame the environment in which the work was done. Instead of being simple documents I wanted to provide more of a story behind the street art. The research I have completed includes the following, Keegan Gibbs, Martha Cooper, Jürgen Große, Henry Chalfant. these photographers are some of the best photographers that does graffiti and art pictures.
These street art pictures can raise awareness for mental health and political problems. The reason why I have chosen street art pictures around Digbeth is to raise awareness for mental health and political problems. Street based Illustration and art can provoke memories, compel action and raise awareness within the community.
The theme was chosen after I was inspired by an Instagram artist called Folkawolf, as he mocks brands and companies using unique and dark humour. In response to this I have created my own campaign focused on the impact and use of sugar and the excesses used within many food and drink products. This campaign is designed to provoke opinions, comments and responses from the audience, and to raise awareness of food and dietary practices.
The general public are still largely unaware or simply not fully appreciative of the actual, scientific and health based significance of sugar consumption. My photographic project aims to change this. Artists that have inspired the work include Folkawolf based on his conceptual and physical campaign that appears as gurellia advertising, where the actual branding, logo and colour schemes are incorporated into his work.
This makes the impact more significant and rememberable as the public are often easily misguided. Techniques and approaches that were used included still life photography, lighting and composition, within the studio. I have selected the images of sweets and pop because it best reflects the theme I have chosen which is sugar.
The following images celebrate the regeneration of Britain’s second city. I have attempted to show the diversity of the architecture. I’ve used wide-angle, bold colours, and strong composition. I am promoting the buildings of Birmingham.
I want to reveal the beautiful sides of these buildings, historical and modern buildings. The images that I produced are not just buildings, but they have a story behind it. My aim has been to explore that. Birmingham has seen much regeneration in recent years, with exciting modern architecture, yet its older, more historic buildings also retain a charm and sense of history.
Though it often gets a bad press nationally, I am proud of our second city!
Only within recent years, people are beginning to become more educated and accepting about the disabled Community. Even then, there will always be discrimination, bullying. Within my project I wanted to express that having a disability, being neurodivergent isn’t inherently a ”bad thing”- media, movies, TV and general old stigmatization of this have prevented the normalization of having additional needs.
Living so closely, to people struggling with disabilities, its truly inspiring as a young photographer, I plan to capture respectful and creative images, interpreting a new side for this project.
I made my photos black and white, not only to add a sense of importance and reality to the images- taking elysian from old black and white newspapers, how headlining articles and events photographed in monochrome.
But to also ensure a sense of fluidity in my project- linking all photos as one collection. Environmental portraiture was used mostly in this project, though I feel like some images have a sense of documentary- as I took unplanned images but later really loved the outcome- displaying my initial thought for this disability project.
