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Summer Project: by Hazel Thompson

The document summarizes a student's summer project exploring representations of identity in still life photography. The student chose objects like family house plans, a contact ball, and stamps to represent genetic, playful, and cultural influences on identity. Test photos were taken in the student's bedroom using long exposures to capture movement, representing identity's changing nature. The final image layers multiple photos - a long exposure of a moving ball and two focused on different objects - to depict identity's multifaceted and perspective nature.

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Summer Project: by Hazel Thompson

The document summarizes a student's summer project exploring representations of identity in still life photography. The student chose objects like family house plans, a contact ball, and stamps to represent genetic, playful, and cultural influences on identity. Test photos were taken in the student's bedroom using long exposures to capture movement, representing identity's changing nature. The final image layers multiple photos - a long exposure of a moving ball and two focused on different objects - to depict identity's multifaceted and perspective nature.

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Summer Project

by Hazel Thompson

Pieter Claesz, Vanitas Still Life, 1630

I chose to look at these two artists as they have a very different style. Claesz has photographic detail to his painting whereas Senlis has an abstract style of representing reality. Although Claeszs use of objects which suggests a theme of mortality creates quite a dark atmosphere to his work Senlis eye-like leaves creates a haunting depth to her work.

Seraphine De Senlis, Feuilles, 1928

Lszl Moholy-Nagy, Laboratory Glass Study, 1939 Edward Weston, Shell, 1927

Irving Penn, Still Life with Watermelon, 1947

Olivia Parker, Weighing of the Planets, 1984

After researching into still life photography I found that the more abstract styles of Parker and Moholy-Nagy interested me further than the beautiful documentation of natural form of Weston & Penn.

Who am I and what physical objects can I use to represent this idea of identity?
Although some of the objects I have used does represent my personal traits I also wanted to represent various levels on the idea of identity as your identity is constantly changing and developing. I have chosen to represent my genetic identity by including the house plans of the house that my Granddad and Grandma built together, which my mother also grew up in, in my still life arrangement. Also I chose to include contact ball to represent playfulness and alternative perspective. The third object I chose to use was a collection of various stamps, from different countries and times. I chose stamps to represent how the connectivity of people and culture is a contributing layer to your identity.

How can my photographic process reflect this concept and what location will I chose to shoot this image?
Ive decided to shoot my images in my bedroom so the location is directly related to me. I would like to experiment with movement within the image to represent the ever-changing and active nature of identity, this will include using long exposure to capture this movement.

Here are two of my tester images. After playing around with movement I decided I didnt like the image on its own and I also thought the impersonal nature of photographing using a tripod instead of the camera being held to my eye did not align with the subject of the work. I lit the arrangement with a reading light to give a soft illumination of the objects. Then I experimented with photographing without using movement. I also liked this outcome however felt it did not have enough to it so I chose to experiment with layering on Photoshop.

Final Image

For my final image I chose to layer three photos, one photo being the long exposure of the ball moving. The other two photos are of the set up however one image is focused on the ball and the other image is focused on the plans and stamps. I chose to do this to represent the multi-faceted nature of identity and also the various angle of perspective one can have on ones identity.

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