Digital Tech week 1 Gallery visits.

Lay of the lands

My favourite images from the Gallery 'Lay of the Lands' would have to be Soloman Mortimer's photo series 'Dominion road Stories'.

He has captured the people's characters in his portraits perfectly, its reality! No photo retouching just the truth which I love. I mud admit i found the presentation of his work a little tacky because it wasn't flat and it was just nailed into the wall. I feel like it should have been framed. Luckily the images are so strong that it takes your mind off the presentation.

In this series he has centred the subject and used narrow depth of field, all images are in B&W. I like how he has a black boarder around the image its a nice touch... even though i would have preferred framed. The purpose of this photo series was to document this road and the characters the shape it and make it a community.

This photograph was my favourite photo from the series because you can truly see the warm character of this man. I really like how has used a narrow depth of field because it stops him from blending into the background.

The King of wax, 2013.

Two Rooms

My favourite work from the two rooms gallery would have to be Conor Clarke's photo series 'Scenic Potential'. Conar is known to find beauty in the unspectacular, such as these old construction sites filled with piles of dirt and sand. When I first looked at these images I thought they were big hills and mountains, I even thought it looked a little fake but then I looked at the tire tracks and realised that they were actually small mounds of sand. Because she has put them into B&W it makes it harder to figure out what the hills actually are. I feel if it was in colour I could easily pick out that it was a construction site. If it wasn't for the tire tracks I think I would have thought it was big mountains and hills. She has used a wide depth of field capturing the mounds of dirt in the background. I really like the way the work was presented. It had a thick white border and then was framed with black oak framing. The presentation was very formal compared to Mark Adams photos. Heres the two images that really confused me out of all of the photos hanging. These images made me question if she had photoshopped because of the scale and vantage point she is photographing from. Very beautiful series of images.

Landscape IV, Berlin 2015

Landscape I, Berlin (2014)