JR:Chronicles|Saatchi Gallery
JR started as a graffiti artist when he was 15. He found a camera and decided to start taking pictures of his friends and pasting them up on the streets to make a mini gallery. Expo de Rue is what they were named. It means sidewalk gallery which people could look at while walking down the street and going about their normal lives. After the riots in 2005 at Les Boquets JR wanted to show the other side to the people in the riots. JR wanted to portray a different side to all his friends in the riots, he wanted to show everyone that they were not only violent. JR used a 28mm lens to take his pictures which means he had to be very close to his subject almost touching them with the lens, and for him that meant the subject and himself had to trust each other.
Gordon Magnin
Gordon Magnin creates artwork which represents a different perspective of a subject by changing the shapes and collaging different pictures of people. This creates a very abstract look. Gordon Magnin creates his unique look by getting other images of other subjects and edits them together and swaps their features like eyes, mouth and sometimes just moves and distorts the whole image. Magnin is trying to show something different to what is currently normal and show something other than the basic scene.
Building Fragments
Patrick Cornillet
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Mauren Brodbeck
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Thomas Kellner
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Anastasia Savinova
Anastasia Saviona takes facades of buildings and edits them together to make it look very fictional out of a movie or spiritual. All the pictures taken are all taken of a specific area then edited together to fit the scene. Savinova then adds something to put under the facade of houses to make the building look like it's standing on something.
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Three Strands
Strand 1: Petey Ulatan
Petey Ulatan is a very creative photographer. Ulatan takes very surrealist to very contemporary photographs. He feels unrestricted to the rules of tradition and tries to have a very diverse aesthetic throught his travels around the world. From Ulatan's perspective the world is very different, he thinks about if the world was flat and if the universe had different laws of physics. About what it would look like if all that was true. He likes to create very mind bending and unorthodox photographs of the world almost caving in on itself.
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These are not my own photos but they are just tests for editing.
WWW: Good editing using mask
EBI: Figuring out how to edit it smoother keeping it as one instead of mirroring.
WWW: Good editing using mask
EBI: Figuring out how to edit it smoother keeping it as one instead of mirroring.
Strand 2: Thomas Danthony
Thomas Danthony is a french artist from the south of france, there he studied industrial design which now leads him to create very fine arts varying from illustrations, designing and photographs. He is inspired by all the time he spends exploring and climbing. Danthony is very interested in simplifying shapes to pure colours.
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WWW: The editing had a very nice output giving a very good edit
EBI: More detail when editing.
EBI: More detail when editing.
Alexey Bogolepov
Alexey Bogolepov is a russian photographer based in Saint Petersburg. Bololepov photographed a series of buildings in Saint Peterburg in the industrial districts made during the Soviet era. He waited days to find buildings with perfect lighting and even a cloud layer for that perfect medium. He thinks photography is a convenient medium and an integral part of the themes he addresses. He tries to reach for modernism in his architectural and ideological expressions by depicting utopias.
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This image is not a picture I took it was just to test out the editing. I created a clone of the image at a lower opacity and edited the red lines over it. After that I deleted the second image it had this red outline.
WWW: Easy to edit giving this outlined look
EBI: better proportions and closer lines to edit so it looks smoother
WWW: Easy to edit giving this outlined look
EBI: better proportions and closer lines to edit so it looks smoother
Favourite Strand - Alexey Bololepov
Development 1
In this development i just took pictures of the school and made them in Bololepovs style. I might've put a bit too much detail as Bololepov just does general geometrical shapes around it.
Development 2
In Development 2 I went around where I live and took some pictures of Coal Drops Yard. The buildings were very good to photograph as they were very geometrical so the angles were very straight and good for Bololepov's edits.
Development 3
In this development I outline the picture with a solid colour then invert the picture. This makes it so the outlines are the picture and everything else around it is Solid colour. Similar to Patrick Cornillet in Fragments.
WWW: The edits went very well and smooth it gave it this look of like unfinished buildings.
EBI: if i took more pictures from a diagonal angle so i could edit the side of the building easier instead ot it being a 2d shape. this would give it some depth.
WWW: The edits went very well and smooth it gave it this look of like unfinished buildings.
EBI: if i took more pictures from a diagonal angle so i could edit the side of the building easier instead ot it being a 2d shape. this would give it some depth.