Self Negotiated Research 3
Rupert Vandervell is a Photographer and film maker. He focuses on a monochrome style to create eerie and minimal photographs. The use of few colours allows the subject of the photographs, the people, to stand out in the light or the light that has been projected on them.
The first photograph is the least complex of them all, creating a series of questions in the obervers mind. It also creates such an aesthetically pleasing break up of negative space within the scene.
The second photograph has included much more of a scene, we know where abouts the subject, the person, is and what time of day it is. This piece is still minimal, although there is much more light and complexity to the scene, the subject area is still the hierarchy. The bilboard that is shining light on the person allows us to see more detail of the subject. Somehow, Vandervell has created a more complex scene but created a minimal photograph.
The third photograph is my least favourite of the four. I like the breakup of the grey and black on the brick wall and also how the shadow has created a repeat of ‘grey, black, grey, black then grey’. Although the actual story within the photograph is not as interesting as the other two in the artists project, I do like how he has taken a simple scene and took the photograph at such a perfect time to create the colour pattern that is printed on the wall. This photograph tells me that when I am taking photographs for my poster I need to be pateint but also that the ideas that may not seem very good at the time may be better than I origionally had expected. Vandervell’s last photograph includes much more of a complex scene but has created this with the use of a man as the hierarchy and a scene creating a sense of perspective. From analysing this last photograph, it is evident that Vendervell’s photographs seem quite minimal but they all have much more thought put into them than what meets the eye. Overall I think that Vandervall’s patience and his ability to be able to think of so much complexity within photoraphy to create one simple outcome has inspired me. Black and white minimal photographs allow for a subject matter to stand out but it also allows for more possibilities to be created. The natural dark and created light creating shadows and breaks up negative space is all taken into account. I want to use these ways of thinking and also this style when taking my photographs for the projects campaign posters.
