Action developing

Yesterday I tried a new technique in the Darkroom... I called it Action Developing, making reference to  Jackson Pollock's Action Painting.

The technique is simple: once you have the photo-sensible paper exposed, instead of putting it in the developing machine, or in the developing liquid, you just have to splash some of the liquid using a paintbrush, a spray... and wait for the magic to take place! However, you have to be careful and fast putting the paper in the stopping liquid when you see the image appearing, otherwise it will get too dark.

Copy Room

Using the copy room for the first time, I managed to take some decent pictures of my first sketchbook (Mechanical Botanical brief) and the final results, as well as from the new brief's sketchbook.

 The new brief is about memory and how is it related to photography. I'm not sure about what I'm going to do, but for the moment I'm thinking of something related to water.

Tourism

This weekend I've been moving around London because my brother has come to visit me.

A Trampled Rose

Today we set up our first group exhibition at LCC!

A Trampled Rose. It's a series of photocopied plastic flowers printed in A0 size. It's more or less related to the Mechanical Botanical brief of the first project, so the flowers, organic elements, have been reproduced massively, which refers to a mechanical process.

This is the flower I brought! 

Maschinenmensch

The last three weeks I've been working in my first project at university! The brief was about the relationship between organic and artificial (Mechanical Botanical)... So I decided to create a series of six portraits and turn that human faces into android-robotic ones...!

There's an hypothesis called Uncanny Valley that says that "when human replicas look and act almost like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers", so I also tried to make something to cause a more or less creepy effect.

At first I did some collage to edit the human faces and then I experimented with cutting off parts of the picture and putting a light box underneath them to let the light pass trough the empty spaces.

This last pitctures are the combination of the color and the black and white portraits, one on top of the other one. I like this effect, It reminds me of a daguerrotype.

 

All-in-one

After have been looking for a printer during the last two weeks, finally today I got one! I could scan the photograms I did in the Darkroom more or less decently and here they are!

This last one is an experiment I want to develop in my future days making photograms!

First month

It's been almost a month since I moved to London and three weeks since I started the course at the London College of Communication.

For the moment, everything is so nice!