Mood Board

As my ideas for this project are currently quite general, I have created a mood board to try and inspire some notion of what I want to do and where I would like to take it. A list of photographers included in the mood board can be seen below. 

Lucas Zimmermann

Martin Vlach

Mike Hollingshead

Darren Moore

Sophie Gamand

Andy Lee

Cory Richards

Jerome Berbigier

Richard Silver

Julian Douvier

Visarute Angkatavanich

Leila Jefferys

George Christakis

As demonstrated in the moodboard I have a general idea of the aesthetic of the work I want to produce. I like the look of the fineart landscape utilising the long exposure and high contrast scenes, I just don't have a concept for my work as of yet.

However I did find the moodboard research to be quite inspirational and has given me a few ideas to work with.

Looking through the moodboard images I found the more surreal pictures to be more appealing. The work by Martin Vlach particularly interested me. His work depicts landscapes but with unusual occurrences within them, for example a image showing the canopy of a forest and then in the background you can see a man just falling through the sky. I found the works that asked questions and made made me look twice to double check what I was seeing to be most engaging. This could be one possibility for my project; surreal landscapes that tell a narrative.

Another artist that caught my eye was Julien Douvier with his moving images. His work utilised GIFS and moving images, the images weren't exactly photographs, but could be perceived to be so. His work was of landscapes but showing animation, for example a image of a house in a field but using GIF files it showed the smoke blowing from the chimney. Of course this work could never be printed, it would have to be displayed electronically.

The final idea I came up with for this project didn't come from the moodboard research. While reminiscing about previous work I had seen, I recalled a exhibition I went to a few years back, I can't remember where at or what it was called however and can't remember the photographer, but I can remember the work. It was a series of prints, quite small, that could be seen while wearing 3D glasses. The work was architecturally based as each image was a photograph of a different bridge, and then viewing the work through the glasses they could be seen in 3D. I thought this idea could be quite interesting to pursue for this project, so I will be doing more research on stereoscopic photography.