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

cleavleies

these wer my 3 favort images from the shoot, im really happy with the out come and to be honist i think its of a much more deadpan approce to the work showing much more of the area.

so i think i have the style and i need to shoot more images of these tennis corts wich is a sport that is clasicly british and quite middle classes in meny ways. this could be a project in it self looking at the tennis corts and their condition. I want to keep to having no people within the images like with alot of lewis baltz work it dosnt have people in the image but their is a presents of people or mankind.

I am interested in the space it self not only tennis courts i think sport areas in general football, hockey rugby piches and basketball courts. its allmost tempting to look at squash corts as well as other indoor sport arears but i think that a hole other project. so i think im going to look at just outdoor sport arears and the condution of them will ovoulsly be important to what the project says but i dont want to say what it will be as i think its somthing i will find out.

Jem Southam Upon Pyne

The Upton Pyne series shows the transformation of a small pond near Southam's home in Cornwall, England. Photographed over a 7 year period, the images track a specific passage of time while also addressing the relationship between humans and nature

Robert adams

For my dissertation I am looking at the photographic group the new topographic Robert Adams one of the better know photographers to be apart of this group. I couldn’t help but look at his work
Adams explored new housing tracts that were being built along the Colorado Front Range in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The developments filled with people who had migrated west in search of a new Eden, only to discover themselves isolated in an artificial landscape. Certain elements of this new landscape recur in Adams' photographs: the uniform, boxy houses, concrete, cars, and dirt plots, as well as the loneliness and isolation that attend this rapidly growing suburban.

Presentation

Iv just had my presentation and i found it interesting to resiceved so much feed back and i think what i got told i did know but it reinforces it to me. i now relise that my idea for the project is still quite hasy i know what i want to shoot but what is it i am trying to say with these images?????

wich i think is maybe the wrong way to look at this project i should chose the best way to shoot for the project. so really what im saying is im mitly confused at this point. i am going to shoot tomoro just to try a few things out and see ware that takes me.

i want to say somthing with this pice

walker evans

Worked with the Farm Security Administratio he was commissioned alongside other photographer of the time to record the work of the FSA and their rehabilitation program also to document the daily lives of the farmers and flood victims

It is rare that a single image can stand for a moment in history it seems to sum up the situation of a suffering population as this dose. Evans spent several weeks with the Burroughs family. Who were sharecropper’s which meant that the family owned nothing they just leased everything from their landlord and owned nothing