Went to a lecture held by the head of photography at Kingston, Vince Wade to inspire us to be more playful with our photography. The advice was to challenge the 'of' of a photo - to consider what you are capturing in the rectangle. To make your photos visually interesting and to represent the world in way that it really exists. To take photos in a non perspective way as well - to convey and provoke more feelings in your photos. We were introduced to some very cool photographers. My favourites were Georges Rousse and Stephen Gill.
Georges Rousses says that he likes the empty canvas and that it inspires him. His art is supposed to be viewed from certain viewpoints to achieve the wanted affect. He always photographs his art as well. I think his photos and art are playful, simple and great. It makes you look twice or more!
Stephen Gill is a photographer who has learnt to haunt the places that haunt him (quote from his website). In his collection Hackney flowers he collected flowers, berries and seeds from around hackney and then pressed and layered photos from hackney and took photographs from. The photos are beautiful and the the feeling he gets from doing his work this way is very different from what you can do in photoshop. His work is holistic and beautiful!
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