Iconic Photo

BREIF: Choose an iconic photo and reenact it in the photography studio.
I had a few ideas for different images to portray: i originally posed as albert einstein with his tongue sticking out...however that didn't turn out so well so i decided to do a more artistic photograph. My final choice was to pose as Renee Perle by the photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue.

Library Project

BRIEF: You are each to produce an edition of 50 pieces of work. The format is to be slightly smaller than A6 portrait. You are to make up a 'blank' album - A6 single page spread, A5 landscape double page spread. The title of the book is The Rules. It should refer to the artists book collection at Chelsea.

I decided to go for quite a simple approach to the brief... an important rule is that you cannot photograph artist books. The image is made up of the words 'DO NOT PHOTOGRAPH' and represents the imagery of a standard camera.

The image below represents 4 of the postcards.

OUR SHRINE

BREIF: You are to produce a shrine in selected pairs for the following themes. Each shrine is to be a projected portrait, to an "A" proportion, on the last day of term at the level 1 exhibition in the casket space.

so, me and Shradda were put together as a pair....my passion was reading/literature...her passion was watching documentaries.

Our first idea was to create life size cardboard cutouts of my favourite characters (in literature) then take them out and document me doing everyday things with these cutouts (in an obsessive way - like i thought they were real).

While discussing our idea with paul and nigel...and showing our research etc...they noticed a pic i brought in of a massive messy stack of books...and our idea evolved from there...

step 1 - collect books:






step 2 - build chair structure:




step 3 - carry it home on the tube:


step 4 - build the chair:





step 5 - carry chair to park and photograph:

The destroying of the comic sans.

BRIEF: You are to produce in the workshop, in 3D, the character A. Twice. The first version is to be made out of wood, the second may be made out of any material you like, just as long as it is white.

The typeface is comic sans. You may not distort or change the typeface in anyway other than making it depper, in the 3D sense. The size is up to you, however.

They are to be produced to the highest specifications and the highest quality finish. The painted wood versions are then to be taken out, as a family group, and photographed.

Following this, you are to take away your individual contribution and destroy it. You must submit a minimum of 3 images which should document the before, during and after elements.
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Below is me sanding my A, the final outcome and our family day out..









As for my other A...i came up with a few ideas...cake - eat it, plaster of paris - blow up, shaving foam - shave off, cheese - leave for a mouse.
I thought of white things...milk, tip ex, paper, salt, sugar, flowers (petals), icing, meringue.
I thought of ways to destroy things...smash, blow up (firework, dynamite), disintegrate, mould (break down). bla bla bla.

Anyways....i made mine out of cheese to leave for mr jingles the mouse (he lives in my kitchen - he's not a pet!) ... but he decided not to come out to play...so i went to plan B...and used the mozzarella to make a lovely meal of grilled ciabata with pesto, tomato and mozzarella on a bed of young leaf salad. So i destroyed it by melting it under the grill and then eating it! ....it was dam good too!!

However... the photos came out CRAP... so i decided to go down a new road ... a more playful road... including fancy dress!
So I dressed up as a lumberjack and chopped up my letter A with an ax.













Many thanks to Mr Jon Endres for being my photographer for the day.