Portraits

Portrait that the model was expecting.

Portrait that the model wasn't expecting - caught off guard. 

Photo of an object taken like it was a portrait.

I thought about doing a 'traditional' portrait, like the one you do in school, eyes on the camera, feet to the side, hands on your lap. But then I started over-thinking it and decided to carry my camera around all day and wait for an opportunity. That way I could get an expected and un-expected portrait of the same person.

Sound Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3oyMujls90

Sound project - a mixture of what I feel are annoying sounds, trains, hammers, washing machines ect...
I have combined them into one truly annoying sound.

Army Men film

A little stop-motion video, inspired by Toy Story and my Slinkachu style photos. Around 130 photos all edited together in Premiere Pro, no sound -I don't think it needs it. I had the army men left over from the Slinkachu project I did and thought it would be fun to create my own Toy Story sequence in the form of a stop motion. My aim for this project was to give the idea that these ‘toys’ were in this big Hollywood blockbuster, that’s why I set them up in a war scene and I tried to use similar camera angles that I have seen in big films.

Memories

A series of Photos showing time passing, objects of my childhood that I have a memory of but not a strong

one - the more faded the photo the less I can remember of the memory. I shot these on a white background 

so that the object was the only focus.

Slinkachu Research

Slinkachu

He photographs ‘little people’ in our big world, so the scale is all out of proportion and when he’s finished he leaves the scene that he created in the street to puzzle the people that pass by. He is a London based artist but travels all over the world with his work. He makes small street based installations and photographs them from far away and close up. You could contrast him with Banksy, who also does street work, but you could easily walk straight past Slinkachu’s work and not realise its even there – where as Banksy’s work is pretty hard to miss. 

Inspired by Slinkachu's 'Little People' Series

I decided to look at Slinkachu for the first project, I liked his use of scale and humour. I didn't have access to any form of small model people to take the photos with. The nearest I could find was the green army men off Toy Story and that was online, they wouldn't have arrived in time. So I decided to make little people out of blu-tack and painted them, as a start while waiting for the army men.