evalutation

im really happy with ware this project has gone from ware i started to ware i am now i think the work has evolved from the start ware i really wasnt sure what i was shooting and for what reason to now ware i have a much clearer understanding to why and what i am shooting i dont think this is the end of the project but really the start of a much bigger serise looking at sporting arears so really this now is the starting point for a much bigger project and it will be nice beacuse i will hopefully creat this large serirse of work that is cohesive and will fit into my portfolio.

target market

i was quite confused with what to do here. but i am starting to see my work is marketed towards the high end looking at creating a book from this project and exhibition would be ideal also to have the project put in portfolio would be nice. i do think that work with the art council as well will be needed to further my carrier as a photographer. i do though want the project to be self directed and motivated


the art council web site
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/regions/homepage.php?rid=6


Milton Keynes art Gallery, i am starting to think i will be wanting to do some volentire work for the gallery helping with curating exboditions over the summer. this is the main art gallery nearist to my home. i am going to look at small gallerys in london as well.
http://www.mk-g.org/


Im thinking when this serise is finshed i will be looking at sending some of my work to portfolio for the posiblity of getting enclouded
http://www.portfoliocatalogue.com/

wed site

i havtn really updated it yet but i have been speaking to a second year graphic desginer about getting a new one together and the sort of style i have been thinking of is going to be very basice. with my images at the focouse of it now very fancy just showing what i need to and i want to be able to update it easly. iv been looking at Dan Holdworth web site as well as Stuart Wipps and i think these are good examples of what i want to have
http://www.stuartwhipps.com/
http://www.danholdsworth.com/
symple and clean i think i want it near 17.5 pecent gray to have a nutural backround and wight wighting its going to be symular to the one i all reay have but i want to start showing my owrk as sesrs as i think im starting to get enouth of bodies of work together to produce this. i think it will need to on flash too as these seem to run smouther

i like the load bar of Dans web site being the names of each project of the image

Alen Kent 2 and final images

i like the diffent layers held thought out this image from the forground then how the its broken up by the wire fences to the backround also normal house showing ware this cort is in the middle of an exsate
i like the cheap sposure in the back round and the rich blue of the cort and how the vertical lines link up to draw you into the image
again with this image i like the amount of lines running thought the stronge verticals of the tennis netting and the lines of the tennis cort.
this image is of a grass cort that isnt in use at this time of the year i just found it intresting as their was only one post so it seems to make the space pointless

with this image im really impressed with the qulity of the digtal haslbalde give you can see it on this as its a small file but it seemes to cach all the deatil in the tress wich seems to really add somthing to the image
if i had the yello vertical line maching up with the fence i think it would of made this image much stronger but i liket the image still it shows the more grotty side of the sport perhaps cause tennis played as much as it use to or maybe its just the arear being blackpool, tennis can be seen as quite an upperclass sport, and blackpool is much more of a working class area so maybe thats explanes the state of these corts as apose to the ones above taken from a privte club in Lytham

i Just went to see alen again as i found him quite helpful i took to him 15 or so images as i now need to cut them down to 6 i think i have my final 6 after talking it thought just need to print them. so above are the final 6 not in any perticklualr orda but thats them.

Lytham

The last two shots are looking at the deatils more wich i think could become a project on its own and espley the last one is quite modernist. the frist of the images is a reshoot of a pevouse image as the last shot had a car and i dont want any people in the images and i think it works well. i went to a club in lytham now i think i do have the number of images i need its just about selecting my final images. i think i may get some help with this maybe alan kent could be handy

Lewis Baltz and the new topographic

Lewis Baltz is one of the key photographer to come out of the group the New Topographic. his work looks at the from of normal bulidings he did a serise photographying the tract houses of califournia showing this new west they recated to what ansel adams was showing he showed this prestine sulbulime landscape Lewis Baltzs was intrested in showing a “man-altered landscape”(W Jenkins, 1975) of tract houses which seems to be built in the middle of no where as well as the loneliness and isolation that attends this rapidly growing suburbia
They develop a new Western landscape aesthetic. A counter-aesthetic that showed the West as they saw it not glorifying it as the old school seemed to. They seemed to have a dispassionate and unsentimental view on the land. Walker Evans was the first photographer to really see the landscape in this way with his work for the F.S.A and can been seen as a huge influence to the group and their aesthetics. Ware photographers like Adams, Stieglitz and Steichen created these very romantic images showing this great expanse the work of the New Topographic was decidedly ironic.

The New Topographic photographers commanded the attention of the viewer thought typologies, but through the extensiveness of the projects and a detached objectivity. No people appear in Lewis Baltzs series ‘The New Industrial parks near Irvine, California’ even though that human presents is implied as it the function of buildings centrally. this is somthing that i want to keep with my work i dont want any pressence of humans in the images but i want it to be implayed as its the centural focouse of these spaces is for human interaction also the spaces mean nothing with out are intertation of the spaces and the lines and what they mean

Artist Statument

this has been quite confused though out my project. but this is what i think i have ended up with

Robert Adams describes it he says Beauty is "Form" and i entend to show Form with in my images i want to in the littural scene by having lots of lines witch make this form and also in the seance that the lines do refure to rules with in a game tennis and therefore shows Form with in the games. This project has been informed by my dissertation wich is looking at the photographic group the New Topographic and the work of contempory British photographer i feel that Jem Southam has had a large infolounce into this project not nessuraly in the way i approce my subject but in the ideas behind his project seem quite relevance. Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz have allso played a large involance to the work with Adams theory behind his work and the way Baltz approces the subject. Dead Pan has been brought up thoughtout this project a number of times and i feel now my images have a Dead Pan feel to the work and the way i approced the subject.
I have aimed to keep the series cohesive by shooting on overcast days to try and keep the sky and the lighting very simular also using the same camare and having it all shot from the same hight on the trypod. i think these are all important for making the sereis fit together.
This work is aimed at the high art market even thought this project is not finshed yet as it is going to become a part of a much larger project and a bodie of work, i entend for it to be work that is exhidited and hopefully put together a book from this project. I also entend to entre some compertions with this project, The Northen Desgin compertion seems the most relevent.

Central Drive Park

I do really llike these images but im not sure how they fit in to the serise or the project except the bottom one the other are of diffent sports and if i start encluding other sports it will be hard to know ware to stop i think its somthing i will wanting to look at for the other project. none of these photos are on a tennis cort so thse imagaes dont fit in to the final project as i think if i start looking at other sporting arears then the project will become to large.

Jeff Brouws and his typoglies

i think these are great photograping each subject in a symular way and prosenting them in the way he dose makes each one seem much more intresting. each diffent typoglie is approced in a diffent mannor wich keeps the work fresh.

John Davis

this a slection of his work from his exhibition in the cube gallery wich shows his life work. he dose seem to beable to make the benile intresting and find the little odderties like sporting arears next to power plants he also seemed to take images very like the one from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar by Taryn Simon ware shes photographed the same subject of the power plant but John Davis work predates this of Taryn Simon. the bowling green image is perhaps the most relevent to my project showing this large space devoted to sports in the middle of an estate

Crit

in this crit my idea of showing this juckterposion between fredom and how its contorled within sport and how i perseve sport as fun and that should have a certain amount of freedom, was shuned to be honist people said that this idea wasnt portrayed with in my images so what to do now i think the only answer really is just to shoot have my images together then see what it is that hold them together i think it will be along the lines of "form" within the images but as i say i think i need to think about it

sooo

ware i am now is that this project is about the juxtaposition of how sport is ment to be fun and fun should be free but then with in these games its filled with lines and rules, beauty is form with in an image to also this from is important in are every day life we can handle the fact that it is just chaos

“Beacause I think, it helps us meet our worst fear, the suspicion that life may be chaos and therefore our suffering is with out meaning"(Adams p.26)

Religion can be assosaited in the same way to bring from to life to reassure us that life isn’t just “chaos” people want something to belive in a reason for being here.

but for this part of this project wich i see as becoming a larger boddie of work i am going to look at how fun is orgnised and the spaces it is put

Crist with Alen Kent

it was last week now but i went to see him with my work he seemed genuraly excited by my project wich is allways nice and only seemed to help with it i think he ended up agreeing with me that all i need to do is to shoot more wich makes sence i need more images so i can define my project more

Crit with Steve Clark

he seemed more intrested with the image rather than the project perhaps thats becasue of the state i was at. with not really understanding why i was photographing theses spaces. he saw some problems with the sky bleaching out wich i am able to control abit in photoshop but that is somthing i shouldn be relying upon. so i think now i am going be looking at my images with paying more attation to having them more square on and gemetict shapes created within the cort.

portfolio review with wipps

Even tho i did have portfolio reviews with other professionals thought out this project and they have look at my old work i think this was one of the most interesting for me, Stewart is a compatry landscape photography and perhaps him work is the most symlura to mine as aposed to some of the other photographer who have seen my work and theirfor i think i found him the most use full.


These images above were the ones that Wipps saw as most interested in how the image is filled with these geometric lines wich hold meaning and how the lines refured to rules in the game.

so i think this project is about how sports witch are meant for enjoyment and fun wich is suppose to be free are filled with these lines and rules i suppose they juxtapose each other and bring some form to fun.

also i think its intresting with having these spaces set in desecrated areas.

he asked me to show him my project when it was further along when i have a clearer understanding of ware i want this project to go.

Peter is a Dick

last night i was perpering for a shoot today and as i finshed peter asked if he could have alook at the camera and ofcause he didnt rurn it off so i only manage to get these two shots before the camare died so peter is a dick. but i do have to say i am liking these images so i supose rwo is better than nothing

MAP

right so iv looked on google earth at the places that i think i can get to and here is a map of all the posibal spots. but thinking about this i think its somthing i want to look at in lots of diffent places for furute project golf corses, gyms, swimming pools sport halls squag corts badminton indoor tennis corts and it could become a large project to keep working on

John Pfahl

I stummbled across this work in my dissertation blimey its pretty special. i do love ionory of these images beautification of these horrible polouting buldings. i think the style is fantastict the images look allmost like betufull paintings of a picturesk landscape wich have a undeniable feel of the hudson river school of painting or Llumist work. mitley impressed with this work

this work was taken from his powerplants serise and here is his artist statument


I have frequently noticed that the electric power companies have chosen the most picturesque locations in America in which to situate their enormous plants. This is likely due to a need for rivers and waterfalls to propel their turbines, or for lakes and oceans to cool their reactors. It may also attest to the importance placed upon being isolated from large population centers for safety considerations. Whatever the reason, it sometimes seems that there is an almost transcendental connection between power and the natural landscape. Even the names given to the plants conjure up an Arcadian vision of the land: Seabrook, Crystal River, Indian Point, Palo Verde.
For me, power plants in the natural landscape represent only the most extreme example of man’s willful domination over the wilderness. It is the arena where the needs and ambitions of an ever-expanding population collide most forcefully with the finite resources of nature.
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of "the Sublime" and "the Picturesque" in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so roundly denigrated. However, by making the landscape appear so romantic, would it promote the naïve impression that these power plants were living in blissful harmony with nature? Would my work be co-opted by industry? I needn’t have worried. For the most part, the work has been received in the same spirit as it was intended.
In order to make my observations rise to the metaphoric plane, I deliberately searched out a variety of power sources in addition to nuclear, including fossil fuel, hydro, wind, solar, and geothermal. I felt that concentrating on nuclear power alone would detract from my larger ambitions and reduce the project to a specific political agenda. I gradually learned that the other, supposedly more benign, sources of energy all had their dark sides, that the actual harm done to the environment was at least as disturbing as the potential harm from nuclear mishaps. Familiar dangers seem to get preempted by unfamiliar ones.
There seems to be no easy, black-and-white solution to the environmental dilemma. I have become uncomfortable with reducing the tangle to a generic, ideologically correct version of reality. As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution. I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that work on a more mysterious level, that approach the truth by a more circuitous route.

stanilypark

these are from another shot at stanily park right now im just intrested in volume as i have my idea kinda sorted i just want to keep shooting and have an adounance of images