Debbie Rhodes FD Photo Media: People

Brief: Human condition.

1. Liaise and communicate with individuals when shooting portrait and human based photography.

2. Identify and analyse a broad range of situations where 'people' are the primary photographic subject.

3. Understand the importance of suitable camera systems for a given purpose.

4. Select suitable processes and techniques for given photographic opportunities and produce imagery for that purpose.

Sally Mann.

Sally Mann, Nov 2007 by Michelle Hood.

Sally Mann was best known for her portraiture and landscape photography.

She regularly used8x10bellows camera and was interested in black and white imagery.

Sally mann also experimented with platinum and bromoil printing processes.

Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia during 1951. She remained close to home there after. She is best known for producing series on portraiture, architecture, landscape and still life. She liked to photograph portraits of her family, her young children and her husband (The immediate family) published in 1992. Her work has attracted controversy at times, but it has always been influential. The public perceived her work as child pornography due to the amount of flesh shown in her imagery but Sally Mann added "natural through the eyes of a mother, since she has seen her children in every state: happy, sad, playful, sick, bloodied, angry and even naked." 1977, she has attracted a wide audience with her firstsolo exhibition, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

She explored sexuality, death, innocence and vulnerability.

During the1990s, Mann began exploring landscapes on wet plate collodion 8x10 glass negatives using her bellows camera. These can be viewed in books 'Still time', 'Mother Land: Recent Landscapes of Georgia and Virginiain 1997' and 'Deep South: Landscapes of Louisiana and Mississippi in1999.'(40"x50") black-and-white prints were created by plateswhich are coated with collodion, dipped in silverNitrate, and exposed while still wet, called the 'wet plate' process.

I have chosen Sally Mann to explore simply because I believe her work relates to human form and has been inspired by the human body and natural shapes. I intend to experiment with siolettes and the shapes we create with our bodies for my series for fine Art.

Jasper James

Jasper James lives and works in China, he photographs editorial, advertising and corporate work.

He explores a range of techniques such as portraits, landscapes and studio.

Previously he has lived in New York, London and Beijing. James has completed assignments for some of the most leading magazines, design and advertising companies such as Ferrari, british airways, volvo, marks and spencer and many more.

He has also photographed many well known celebrities such as Morgan Freeman, Russell Crowe etc.

I'm particularly interested in his silhouette imagery which is what I want to explore for this brief, his work inspires me and I like the use of experimentation that has been included with in these shots. These look like an overlay of two separate images but work really well.

These are not exactly what I'm going to create but it is a good example and something to inspire me along my journey.

Lachlan Bailey

Lachlan was born and raised in Australia.After completing a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media Studies, he spent the following 12 months working within the film industry and on his own short films.

Lachlan became increasingly involved in photography, both on-set and on various personal projects.This led to his decision to return to Universty-gaining a Degree in Photography at one of Australia's most reputable courses.

In 2001, he relocated to London, and after spending next few years assisting various high profile fashion photographers,he went out on his own in 2004.

Lachlan is now a regular contributor to Japanese Vogue,British Vogue,Vogue China and i-D magazine,also working for Arena Homme+,POP and Dazed and Confused.He is currently collaborating with a select group of Fashion editors,including Jonathan Kaye,Jane How,Nancy Rhode and Sarah Ellison.

Lanchan's growing list of commercial clients include;Louis Vuitton,Burberry,Kert Geiger,Paul Smith Fragrance and Aveda.

Reading week task...

18th century photographer - William Henry fox talbot (1800-1877)

Talbot was a British inventor and a photography pioneer. He invented the Calotype process.

Talbot is also known as the holder of a patent whichmay have affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain.

During the 1840s he worked on a photo-mechanical reproduction which later led to photoglyphic engraving process.

19th century photographer - Felix Nadar (1820-1910)

He is a french photographer, journalist, novelist and balloonist. He taken his first photographs during 1853.

Nadar became the first person to take aerial photographs from a hot air balloon. Felix Nadar was known for his portraiture.

He also pioneered the use of artificial lighting in photography, working in the catacombs of Paris.

Nadar also took an interest to erotic photography.

During April 1874 he made it possible for impressionist painters to hold their first exhibition, he lent out his studio to them.

20th century photographer -Walker Evans (1903-1975)

He was an American photographer. Evans mainly focused on FSA (Farm security administration).

Walker Evans documented the effects the great depression was having on society. Many of his works can still be seen in a large number of museums. He is known for the portrait called Allie Mae Burroughs. He took up photography in 1928. In 1931 Evans published his three photographs in a poetry book called 'Thebridge' by Hart Crane.

Lighting workshop 1.

During this session our tutor Andy Farrington wanted to demonstrate different lighting techniques to get a better understanding of how certain images have been lit. The class was separated into two groups were we then was shown how to light a subject.

Lighting workshop 2.