Site's Layout

Throughout the week I have been working on the layout of the site. The gallery of pictures is made in flash rest is all done in Dreamweaver and Photoshop. I changed the layout once as I didn’t like the first one. I have tried to give the look of photography by just looking at the index page. The site itself is smooth and consist a brief of Single Project so the viewer knows what they are looking at, a about me page which tells the viewer a little about me and a forum page, giving an option to contact me. Because the gallery images are based on the work I’m doing for Single Project so I have been spending more time towards Single Project.

Start

I started off with the best place I could think of which was The British Library, got myself a year’s membership and spent a day trying to find books on pictures of Essex in 1980’s. Firstly I wasn’t sure about the titles and when I did get hold of few books names that I thought would be useful the waiting time was 2 days to 2 weeks. I would have waited up to 2weeks knowing the books I would get would have all the right pictures but it was pretty risky. So I decided to visit a local library which was Stratford library. Lucky I found exactly what I wanted from the reference section. I had to make an appointment for me to look through the folders containing the pictures and was permitted to bring a long a digital camera to take pictures of the pictures they had.

After making an appointment visited the Stratford library again and this time I managed to get some pictures. The library containing about 200 folders of pictures cover a very large area. Now the area is known as Newham but in olden days it was a part of Essex. The Library had an index of folders which was very useful and helped me make my notes. I randomly took 50-60 pictures as I was only looking forward working towards 10 of them. While doing my library research I was also doing my internet research. How other people have developed their ideas and their style of manipulation. All of this can be seen in my sketch book.

London Old and New

My Single Project is based on the changes that have occurred in London during the period 1980 to the present day. I will be focusing on a certain part of the city rather than then trying to deal with the whole of London. (As it’s very big) My primary research will be done using resources at my local Library, through reference books. The local library has images of neighbourhood areas and I will be taking images of those images and then going back to the same location to take pictures now. I will be comparing the old images with the new ones.

My influence for this project is an exhibition running at South Bank Centre of Hayward ‘Mark Wallinger Curates: The Russian Linesman’. The Artist did a project which was a video that showed past and present at the same time. Half the screen showed past and the other half present. The old footage was taken from various old films, whereas the new clips were taken now at the same places, with same angle and pretty much the same time of the day. The vast changes of construction and architecture are obvious and there has been a transformation.

Online Portfolio

Second Assignments consists of an online Portfolio, Competition and a Presentation. I’m already doing a portfolio site for Professional Creative Practice so I decided to make a website based on my photography work. I will be mixing Art Practice and Presentation with my Single Project. My Single project is based on Collaboration. How places have transformed in last 29years.
The online competition I found is as following:
http://www.britisharts.co.uk/competitions.htm
http://www.shootexperience.com/
http://www.photographers.co.uk/html/photography-competitions.cfm
None of the competition has a submission forum; one just got to be a member and can enter the competition.