NOV/DEC AND NOT A LOT

               

Ok. I'm really bad at maintaining a blog. I see that now.
Let's play a little catchup. Firstly let me explain that lately when I don't "have to" I almost never shoot digital. Everything has pretty much been on 35mm film or peel-apart instant film.
I've been experimenting a lot with my polaroid land camera and testing how it reacts with different light. I've also started a new sketch journal to hopefully eradicate the problem of me losing and never keeping track of all the little scribbles I do.
More blog posts to follow when I get motivated to write and scan pictures.

PROVIDE

Building on from the series Vessel (posted a few back), I created this series as the final chunk of my folio for this second semester. Titled Provide, it is in summary about mans dependance on nature as a provider. I wanted to make a photographic ode to where all human activity originated.

CHILDISH FEAR

This was a uni assignment about symbolically representing a public space that had some significance to us. We were challenged to think beyond just a straight image. I approached the series form the angle of wanting to represent a park from my childhood of which I feared being left in at night. The images were shot at night using either torch light-painting or strobes. I then illustrated some small creatures and scanned them and placed them within the photographs. Ta da!

VESSEL

Here we have exhibit A. This is my mid-semester assignment. I wanted to look at the idea of the human body being of earthy elements and returning to the earth after death. This probably isn't a series that I am completely sold on personally. But I always enjoy an excuse to make my family play dead and mess around with lighting. 

SEPTEMBER

I realise this post comes a little late but September has been hectic. I'll recap for you.
A lot of this month has been spent trying to get together all my last assessment pieces for this semester. Amidst all the chaos my older sister had her wedding which I had the massive pleasure of photographing. I got questioned by police while of a shoot in which I was trying to stage a burial,  threw myself into a disgusting creek and spent a lot of time in the bush doing semi-illegal-ish things for photos.
It feels like uni is really the only thing on my plate at the moment, which is nice I suppose. I eagerly anticipate finishing this year so I can temporarily move back home and spend the hot summer days in the pool with my family, out camping or working on some personal projects.

BRISBANE

I can fondly remember the days during high school which were spent exploring Brisbane City. Things like visiting the photo-booths in Elizabeth Arcade, stuffing myself atYum Cha in Chinatown, striding up and down Queen St, stumbling through GoMA and buying lollies at Southbank. Sadly this city is losing its charming sparkle for me, as I find myself spending more and more time there.
Of course, this dosen't mean I'm giving up on my city, I'm just going to have to try a little harder to find new things to love about it.

AUGUST

I never feel quite right about August. Mostly because it seems like winter is suddenly drawing to a close and the end of the year begins to creep up.
Things have been going well for me I suppose. I'm going to get in to posting again because, to be honest, it was quite fun.
Let's hope I do something interesting then yeah?