We had guest speakers that had came into our lecture and kindly talked to us about their work. To which was then led to us asking questions after. First up was Marcio, I really liked his work and it was one of which in some aspects relate to. He used photography as a medium of communication and had expressed it a fine art. He stated that "
I focused on thinking about the other, to find yourself." This whole idea is my line of thinking and it was interesting to know that i'm not the only one. That in order to find ones self, you find yourself through others. He also stated that he
"looks back at his photos and thinks about it only pleased his own ego." Not only I but everyone could relate to this, it's something thats always been about pleasing ones ego. Making an image beautiful, exaggerating the image that wasn't how it was before. Everything is just a cover up.
The Bodies I Live In
(Inspired by a movie called "The Skin I live in")
Another guest speaker that had kindly talked to us was a photographer by the name of Rasmus Vasli his line is completely the opposite to Marcio's. Before starting photography, he still wasn't sure what direction to take. He was considering fashion, but apparently he had ruled that one out. He had shown us a body of work, called "Relative Values" and it was interesting to see these people in their own psychological space. Some of which seemed to be awkward standing next to each other, some of which you knew weren't blood related. He stated ,
"What can a photograph tell us about the people that are gathered in it? How are they related? How do they get along? Can a simple hand gesture, face expression or body posture give us the answer? Or do we have to look deeper into the details of the photograph in order to make a decision?"
It was pretty much down to the viewer to make a decisive judgement, to me this body of work and the subjects within it looked fairly misplaced. They don't look comfortable. There were some questions which I never got to ask. And that was was there any meaning behind the places he's decided to place his subjects? What got me questioning was, in one of his photos it had a door open. In an other image, it had the family standing next to another door but there was a wall that seemed to have been painted, but was incomplete.These weren't straight up family portraits. I thought that he wanted to get the viewer to know the space that there in.
"Relative Values"
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