Thursday, 24 February 2011

Two paths

I have two paths I'm following at the moment -

The first - Projecting on to historial monuments - at the moment the images and idea's I've mocked up are very interpretive; There is no specific meaning, or if there is then it's easily seen as something else, depending on the viewer.

I can't escape the historical context shooting using monuments imposes, a large percentage of them are war related, the others are mostly religious and mythical.  I choose to look for the comedy juxtaposition, this isn't set though, I'm sure more idea's will come as I experiement. 

One mock-up in photoshop (below) shows a group of 'nazi zombies' from the Call of Duty series of games, projected on to a monument from the world wars.  It was a quickly thought up but raises an interesting link with computer game culture and it's perception of war; This is an unrealistic case using Nazi zombies but there are many others purporting to be closer to reality, but very rarely are.


My process was going to be to find a site and then to invent an image to place there, but to start with, to aid the initial production of images I'm going to pick a set of images to project and find a site to project them in.

The second, projecting on to people is also split between projecting on to people and on to the environment around people.  Putting people into a context they're not aware of - I first thought of it as having people unconsiously look at the false reality I was making, as they viewing a monument.  
To approach people in the street for portraits is a very difficult way for me to go, even though it would be the most efficient way to photograph alot of people, so I would need to use ways of shooting people unknowingly.

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