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Photographic Surface

Part 1 - Work in Progress

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The following images had been taken for a recent project at university, which was split into two sections. The idea of the project was to look at familiar images and produce them in such a way, we become unfamiliar, which makes the viewer second guess what they are viewer and their familiarity.

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Part 1 was the beginning of the project which had produced imagery based on the photographic surface, looking at how the surface of an image can be its own image...using images we would associate with produced into a way we no longer recognise that image. These images being family memories, childhood tv programmes and films, which was chosen as they are easy to recognise in full frame, but in the state of the surface, they are hard to recognise. 

Part 2 - Further Development

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Part 2 was a follow on with part 1 however, to develop the idea I need to connect with the imagery on a personal level, which adds contents. I had chosen to look into the effect of Alzheimer's on my family as my grandad is a Alzheimer sufferer. I took this idea further by linking it to my previous idea of photographic surface, so I had chosen family photos of my grandparents and using a macro camera, I could capture the detail of the photographs surface. 

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I presented these images as a puzzle which plays with the contents of memory loss and allows the viewer to connect with the images and the effect of Alzheimer's, whilst trying to solve the puzzle to discover the image.

 

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Artist Statement 

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