Research Log

Jenn Ackerman

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303763/Photographer-Jenn-Ackermans-haunting-look-mentally-ill-inmates-inside-Kentucky-prison.html

Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber are Minneapolis Photographers who specialise in editorial, commercial and advertising photography. These photos are from a shoot that Ackerman did, in which she photographed mentally ill inmates inside Kentucky prison. These images are evidence of mental illness and disorders. I would like to use Ackerman as influence for my work at some point in this project, as i would also like to shoot photographs which represent mental health. 

Weegee

http://www.amber-online.com/exhibitions/weegee-collection

Weegee, born as Ascher (Usher) Felliga, was a photographer and photojournalist of the 1930s-1960s. He is known for his stark black and white photography. Weegee worked in Manhattan, as a press photographer, and developed his signature style by following the city's emergency serves and documenting their activity. Most of Weegee's work shows explicit content of crime scenes and horrific accidents. This is evidence of crime. At some point in my photography, I may take this influence from Weegee and photograph some of my own 'crime scene' photographs. 

Joe Melchione

http://www.joemelchionephotography.com/urban001.htm

Joe Melchione is a self taught photographer, that remains to print his photographs with film, as he his reluctant to join the modern, "digital revolution". He shoots mainly what he witnesses himself. I chose to research Melchione because I interpret that evidence is shown through out his work. In the images that i have included, there is evidence of decay, rust, weathering and emotion.

Gabriel Orozco

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/gabrielorozco/

Gabriel Orozco is a mexican artist. I chose to research his photography work because i think that they display evidence of human presence and civilisation. As this is linked to my work in this project, I would like to research further into his photography and find more inspiration. 

Jane Dorn

http://www.janedorn.com

Jane Dorn is a graphic designer, photographer and educator. She has recently completed a graduate degree in Graphic Design. I like Dorn's work because it's simplistic, yet extraordinary. I also think her work relates to photos that i may take for this project, as they represent human presence and civilsation.

Aaron Ruell

http://www.aruell.com

Derek Aaron Ruell is an American director and photographer. I chose his photography work to research because i think that some of his work displays evidence of every day life, but from a more personal perspective. I like how he takes photos of ordinary rooms within a house, and yet they look so simplistic, but so realistic which makes them appealing to look at. 

Laura Letinsky

http://lauraletinsky.com

When researching Laura Letinsky, i discovered that she is a Canadian contemporary photographer, and that she is best known for her still life photography work, which is said to allude to human presence, without including physical figures or actual people. I like the idea of being able to represent people, without actually showing them within the photograph. This clearly links with my subject of evidence, and i would like to look into Laura Letinsky's work and use it as influence for my own.

Mary Mccloskey 

http://www.marymccloskeyphotography.com/portfolios/evidence-of-light/

Once looking into Mary Mccloskey's work, I instantly noticed that her work displayed evidence of light. After reading about Mccloskey, I found out that she focuses on the natural world, including light and memory. Mccloskey has written on her website that she believes she came into photography late, after spending years as a writer. 

Jim Henderson

http://www.jimhendersonphotography.com

Jim Henderson is known for creating what probably is, the largest collection of Scottish Aurora images known. Henderson began taking photograph's of the Aurora Borealis in Scotland in 1989. Which led him to begin photographing over 350 Northern Light displays. I chose to study his work because it documents the evidence of natural, colourful light. 

Janusz Wanczyk 

http://1x.com/member/16694

Janusz Wanczyk is a 51 year old photographer from Poland. Wanczyk has been producing photography work for six years, and is known for his mountain landscapes, misty mornings and capturing unusual phenomena of nature. His work that has been produced in the morning caught my eye the most, as he has captured a few photos with the sun rising, and the sun shining through mountains and trees etc., and i really like his work. 

Tom Hussey

http://www.tomhussey.com/SERIES/Reflections/thumbs

Tom Hussey is an American photographer, who specializes in commercial advertising and lifestyle photography. I have chosen to research him because his "Reflections of the Past" work caught my eye. Hussey has used elderly models, and posed them in front of a mirror, whereby he has manipulated the reflection of "them" as young and youthful. I like this work a lot because it is evidence of ageing and growing up, which links to something i could look into doing in this project, but it is also extremely appealing and interesting to look at.

Bob Martin

http://www.bobmartin.com/indexbobmartinsite.html

Bob Martin has won many awards whilst photographing sports, he specialises in shooting action, graphic and editorial photographs for clients. Martin's career has developed immensely over the last thirty years, which has allowed him to photograph major sporting events and travel the world, including shooting for the Olympics. I chose to feature Martin's photography work because the action within his photographs have enabled him to capture fast, extreme movement. 

Alan Babbitt 

http://www.abproductions.com/movement_disorder/movement_disorder_ss.html

Alan Babbit has been photographing since the early 1970s, and has been producing fine art photography since then. He calls his work "UnStill Photography" and has used his hand tremor as an advantage and an addition to his photography. I enjoyed researching his work, as he has captured movement in lots of different ways. 

Ken Ohara

http://www.photography-now.com/artist/ken-ohara

Ken Ohara is a Japanese photographer, and is known for his extremely close-up portraits of people's faces. I chose to research into his work because these portraits show evidence of identification, however, in some of his photographs, he has blurred the face of the person within them. This prevents the viewer from identifying the person, which withdraws the "evidence".

Stephen Shore

http://stephenshore.net

Stephen Shore has been a widely published photographer for the last forty years, and even has books of his photographs, one of which is "The Nature of Photographs". I chose to research his work because it related to the evidence of identity, human presence and existence and every day life. These topics link with the project I am currently doing, and Shore's work is great influence for my own photography. 

Jill Greenberg

http://www.jillgreenberg.com

Jill Greenberg is an American artist and photographer. I enjoyed researching Greenberg's work, and came across one of her projects. I was intrigued to find out that Greenberg photographed young children, and in order to catch them at an emotional state, she gave them a lollipop and then took it away for 30 seconds before giving it back. This enabled her to take photos of them crying, screaming, shouting for it back. I was interested in this particular shoot because it shows the evidence of  emotion, in such a realistic way. 

Nills Müller 

http://www.nilsmuellerphotography.com

Nills Müller was a former graffiti artist, and taught himself photography so that he could capture his graffiti work as well as take photos of creating it. I chose to look at Müller's work because graffiti is vandalism, which could link to my topic of evidence, as i could use Müller's work as influence to represent the evidence of vandalism, damage, crime etc.

John Feist 

http://galleries.johnfeistphotography.com

John Feist has been a photographer for the majority of his life, and then began to sell his work after listening to others advice. His main focus is the natural world, as seen in his images, which mostly contain animals, birds, plants as well as scenic and landscape shots. I chose to look at Feist's work because he captures the beauty of the natural world. Some of his images have also captured different types of weather, like spring, winter etc. Which I could use as influence for a shoot in my project.

Bobby Neel Adams

http://www.bobbyneeladams.com 

Bobby Neel Adams was born in North Carolina, and is known for his "Age Gaps/Family Tree" photographs whereby he merges the photographs of the same individual, as child and as an adult. He is currently working on a series of photographs of birds, insects and mammals. I like Adams' concept of showing ageing and growing up through a photo montage of two images. 

Cara Phillips 

http://cara-phillips.com

Cara Phillips was born in Detroit, she has a history with the beauty industry as she was a child model, and then became a makeup artist in her adulthood. However, she returned to school to study photography and since graduating in 2007, she has focused solely on her work and has collaborated with other photographers in numerous projects. I chose to feature Phillips' portraits where she puts the model under a UV light, because it brought out their freckles and other features of their face that we can't usually see. I liked the idea of this shoot because it signifies unknown and unseen evidence, which links with my current work. 

Laura Williams

http://www.laurawilliamsart.co.uk

Laura Williams is a UK aspiring graphic designer and photographer, currently studying graphic design at Brighton University. I enjoyed looking at her work and was influenced by many of her shots. At first, i wouldn't have thought her work would relate to 'Evidence' but after looking into her work further, i realised that her work is evidence of distortion, optical illusions and imagination. I like her work a lot and it has influenced my ideas for a shoot. 

Image Bank

Internet Images

This image is showing how finger and hand prints are produced. In this photo, we can see the 'evidence' of a hand print that has been formed using ink or powder. I like this image a lot because we can see the creases and lines of the person's hand in the print. I also like this image because it relates to the real evidence that i created for my definition post.

This photo is of a part of a road, where tire tracks have formed from a vehicle. The tracks have been made because the tires were wet, and left the trail on the dry road. There is also a tape measure on one side of the tracks, measuring the length of it. This could mean that these tracks relate and/or are evidence to a crime scene.

This is another tire track image. However, in this photo we can presume the tracks have been made by a tractor as they have been printed on to a muddy field. I like that this photo is in black and white as it emphasises the ridges and dents of the tire tracks. I also like that the tracks start at the foreground of the image, and then finish in the background, which makes our eyes follow the tracks from the bottom to the top of the image. 

This photo has been edited so that the saturation is very minimal. This makes the photo look eerie and mysterious, as we can only slightly see the colour in the traffic cones and grass, but it is not obvious. This makes people stare at the image for a lot longer than usual, meaning that they notice the little details, such as how many cones there are, and the black box/bin next to them. 

As this photo is in black and white, it creates a dangerous and unsafe atmosphere, which is what i like about it. In this image we can see a chair standing alone, in a shed of some sort, with barely anything else. This signifies the evidence of human presence, as somebody obviously had to put the chair there, in order for it to be there. 

This photograph is slightly more personal than the ones before, as it is of a bedroom. We can see that there is a bed and duvet, as well as a light switch cord. Apart from this, there is barely anything else in the image except the rough wall that looks like it has been scratched at as there is parts of the paint missing. This image also represents human presence as the bed as clearly been slept in. 

Continuing with the human presence theme, this photo shows that people have smoked, and left there cigarette buts on a public ashtray/bin. I like that this image is in black and white because it makes the white cigarettes stand out against the grey background. I also like how we can slightly see the ash in between the cigarettes. 

This photo also displays human presence as we can see cars, houses, buildings, the road and some material that is at the edge of the road. I like the angle of this image because the material that was left on the side of the road is the closest to the camera, so we look at that first, and then our eyes wander to the background of the image where we see the cars and rest of the street.

Although this photo could be displaying evidence of movement or human presence, I actually chose it because if we look closely, we can see that the people are ducking and covering their faces etc. This is because in the photo, it was raining. I like the subtlety of this as you wouldn't know that's what the photo was showing unless you looks extremely closely and related to the 'evidence' of the people's actions.

This is another footprint photo, however this time the footprint was made in sand. I like that this photo is in black and white because it gives the footprints a shadow and makes the tone of them darker than anything else in the image. I also like that this sort of footprint is natural, as everyone can make a footprint in sand. So, even though i've previously related footprints with criminals and crime scenes, it could also be seen as just a natural, normal thing in somebody's day/life.

This is another crime scene photo. I chose this image because of the numbered yellow signs, signifying the placement of evidence. This relates to an idea I had about placing similar signs to indicate evidence, in a normal, everyday life setting like a bedroom or living room. This would be comical as it would make a normal room of a house look like a crime scene, when really, the signs would only be pointing out evidence of somebody living there.

I like the perspective of this image as only the middleground is in focus. Which creates depth, as the yellow stripes as well as the road itself look as though they are getting narrower towards the background of the image. But it also focuses on the main subject, which is the broken glass in the road. I also like that the background is extremely blurry so we cannot see beyond the road. 

This photo is so simple, yet so effective. I like the idea of using ordinary objects to express human presence. In this image we can see that somebody, most likely a woman, has been drinking from this cup of tea, as there is a lipstick stain on the edge. I like the black background as it emphasizes the white cup and makes it seem brighter.  

I chose this photo because it is evidence of secretive behaviour, as well as safety. This is because somebody ought to have put the lock on the door, and therefore could either be hiding something or simply, keeping something safe. I also like the evidence of rust and weathering in this image, as we can clearly see that the door and even the padlock itself are old and rustic. 

This photo is evidence of somebody getting ready, women, and human presence. I like that we can slightly see the sparkle of possibly jewellery in the background, as well as powder on the surface, to show that the products have been used. Another thing that i like about this image is that it doesn't look organised, instead it looks natural and realistic. 

This is another photo which could be evidence of human presence as there is a Ferris wheel. However, I look at this photo as though it is evidence of desertion, as there is clearly no one around and the Ferris wheel looks like its in the middle of no where. 

This image is representing the evidence of mental health, illness and disorders. Obviously, mental health, good or bad, cannot be seen in realistic terms. However, the creativity of this image suggests otherwise. In this image we can see somebody crouching into a ball, hiding from the drawing of a dark monster, which practically describes what some mental illness' can feel like. This also shows evidence of emotion, feelings and thoughts. I like this image because it's raising awareness for something that people disregard on a daily basis. 

This is another mental illness photograph, and this one is showing the effects of social anxiety. I like this photo as we can see movement from the blurred images of the same person, but also the effect this has on the one image of the person that it standing still. It emphasizes her feelings and shows how trapped somebody could feel.

Again, this photo is showing the effects and actions of mental illnesses. However, this photo could also be interpreted as expressing thoughts, feelings and emotions as it could show anger and frustration. 

This photo is displaying the evidence of weather. In this instance, it's rain. This photo was taken of a window, so we can see the rain drops and streams falling onto the window. I also like that we can see through the window, but it is blurred so we can still focus on the rain, but there is a pop of colour in the background. 

This is another weather image, instead this photo is showing evidence of sunshine. I like this image a lot because the tree is shown as a silhouette because the sun is behind it. I also like that there is one single point between the branches that we can see where the sun is shining through. This is also evidence of natural light. 

This is a photo displaying the evidence of artificial light. We can see that the light is coming from the edge of the Ferris wheel, but it is also reflected in the river before it, which adds extra colour to the photo as the light is pink. Therefore, this photo also shows the evidence of reflection. 

This photograph is representing the physical evidence of ageing. I like this style a lot, as a new face is formed by two different photos taken at completely different times. One side, is showing the man as an adult, and the other is showing him as a little boy. I also like that we can evidently see the torn edge of the photo. 

This is another photo created in the same style. Except this one is of a woman, her left side is when she is old, and the right is a picture of when she was young. It is evident in this image that the elderly side of the photo, was purposefully re-creating the young image, as we can see that the woman has posed the same way and worn a similar outfit. 

This photo is representing the evidence of age. However, i like this style and idea because it shows that even though the lady is old physically, her heart and soul is still young - as shows by her jumping, youthful shadow. 

This is a personal possession photo, as we can see a watch, ring (possibly a wedding ring) and a key. These items could be essential to the person they belong too for every day life. I also like that the watch face is completely in focus, whereas everything else is slightly blurred. This makes us look at the time it was captured on. 

This photo has been taken of many ancient photos which have been taken throughout somebody's life, or given to them by their family. I like the old, faded look of these images as they look authentic. I also like that they haven't been organised neatly, instead they've been placed randomly like a collage.

This is a multiple imagery of personal places and possessions. I like this image a lot because it shows different aspects of a persons life in each photo, but as they've all been put together, they practically present most of the person's every day life. 

This photo is the evidence of existence and identification. In this photo we can see personal possessions which belong to somebody, and obviously mean something to them. I like how the objects in this image are completely random, and i also like how organised they have been placed. 

This photo has obviously been taken in a very busy place, as we can see an immense amount of litter that's been placed on a ledge. Although the litter itself isn't exactly attractive to look at, i like this image because it represents true civilisation and human presence, and what people are like in busy streets, towns and cities.