7 deadly sins
Ever since I was doing A-level Photography, I could remember myself wanting to try and take photographs of the 7 deadly sins. However, I never got the chance to work on it as it was difficult to to think of Ideas. But now that I've researched photographers I've managed to come up with the idea of using a mirror to reflect the 7 deadly sins. The idea was that the mirror was to be placed in the studio, but after running into some difficulties, I decided to try it outside. The result was fantastic as I got a dream like affect to it that I didn't know I'd get. For me it was the perfect Idea for the "People Project" as I find it fascinating. Diving into more research I remembered a particular photographer's work when I went to visit "The Metropolitan museum" in New York. His name was Jerry Uelsman, and as I viewed more of his work I began to like it more and more because there was something about the way he pulled people into a different reality that caught my attention. His photographs were look dreams from someone's imagination, and that's what drew me in. A few days later, I ended up ordering his book online called "Other Realities" which showed me some of his other photographs. Like his work, the book itself was fantastic.
I began to experimenting first, by taking the mirror into the woods near my house and placing the mirror in a setting I thought would be perfect. By taking a different shots from different angles, and positions. I found it fun and exciting to take something simple and turn it into something completely different and slightly out of the ordinary. The two above were taken for the sin envy. The reflection in the mirror is stuck, and is envious that it can't get out while it's other half is free to roam around. I tried showing this to the best of my ability by using the Photoshop tools to make it look as realistic as possible.
Jerry Uelsman: Meditation Mystery 2001
"I am involved with a kind of reality that transcends surface reality. More than physical reality, it is emotional irrational, intelectual, and psychological. Because of thses other forms of reality don't exist as specific, tangible, objects, I can honestly say that the subject matter is only one consideration that proceeds after the fact and not before. We don't select a handsome group of words and then try to say something; but rather we begin speaking and words come out as the result of our efforts to say
something meaningful"
The piece above was one of my favourite that Jerry Uelsman took as his combination of the clouds and the way he made it look so dreamlike drew me in. It's beautiful how he manages to create a whole world of his own, psychologically and emotionally effecting the people that come across it. it certainly has affected me as I was always interested in the human mind and how dreams worked. His work really captured my attention, and to reflect his work methods, I began to use clouds in at least two photographs from my first set.
Jerry Uelsman: Untitled 1989
"It is important that we maintain an open dialogue with our materials and process. I believe that this kind of questioning interaction, in both photography and life, is a prerequisite for growth and understanding, in terms of my own development, I have found the recognition of questions more provocative than the provision of answers"
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