AMD PHOTOGRAPHIC – MA Blog

MA Proposal AD7801 Photography 1: Establishing Practice Industrial Aesthetics (name pending) New Delhi Municipal Council Building, Kuldip Singh | Photo Credit: MIT Libraries, Rotch Visual Collections, courtesy of Peter Serenyi For this project, my aim is to capture the atmosphere that large, ominous, bleak, brutalist heavy engineering and Industry imposes upon the beholder; The awe-inspiring… Read more

This is the selection of images that I have ended up with at the end of my project, I chose them as I felt that in all of them there was a sense of an atmosphere being emitted from the buildings in the shots, through a mixture of scale, framing and tone, I had been… Read more

With the images now collected I set about the post production editing process. Using Lightroom and Photoshop I loaded up the images and set about cropping and editing them for the final selection. Much of the editing fell under a similar routine of lowering the highlights, raising shadows and enhancing the blacks to emphasise the… Read more

Following my London shoots, I wanted to test an idea that had come up in a feedback crit that perhaps the imposing nature of the buildings that I had captured in London only had that atmosphere due to them being located within central London. I very much believed that the buildings had their own presence… Read more

From the start of this project, I have had a pretty strong idea of how I wanted to present my work. To reflect the powerful nature and presence of the buildings I shot, I wanted to have them printed out very large, say A1 to A0 in size and hang them up in such a… Read more

Following shooting and developing the rolls of film I had used to shoot my project on, I was curious to see if I could get in a little darkroom work as another process and experiment into more established photographic work that I was working towards as a side goal with the project. Having had a… Read more

As part of my work and experience gaining exercises, I planned to go and shoot with some medium format FOMA Retropan 320 soft in the disused train depot within the grounds of the Cheltenham Racecourse. However upon arrival it was clear that the station and line were not as disused as we once thought, the… Read more

The Black Tower (1987) by British experimental filmmaker John Smith, is a short film (<23 mins) following the spoken word story of an unnamed man who notices a tower with a black top on his morning walk. following this encounter the man begins to think more and more about the tower, he then starts noticing… Read more

Following my London shoot where I was using FOMA 100 classic, a very sharp and finely grained emulsion, I wanted to experiment with using something different to the regular film stocks I had been using like HP5+, Fuji C200 and Kodak Ultramax 400. I did some research and eventually came upon another release from Czech… Read more

These photographs from English Photographer and Artist, John Myers taken from his latest book entitled ‘The End of Industry’ offer a unique insight into the atmosphere and form of industrial areas in the North of England at the time of the dynamic, economic societal and physical change from coal fired, steel and iron, heavy industry… Read more

For my first planned shoot for the Brutalist, Industrial Aesthetics project, I planned to photograph and capture both the physical buildings and structures that can be found along the southbank area of Central London, and the essence or form that these constructions imbue upon their beholders. The buildings I intended to capture were the National… Read more