Week 3- Constructed & Pinhole Photography

Southampton is well known for being the place were titanic took off from on the 10th of April 1912. We felt as this was something significant Southampton was recognized for throughout history that we would look into staging this. We began by looking up about the titanic to gain a bit of general knowledge about it.

Define Titanic:   Something of exceptional power and strength.

A photographer that interested me was Alex Bailey who is a film photographer. He fits very well into our work as our photograph is a staged image from a film. I found his work in a book called 'Movie Photos by Alex Bailey' on page 212-213. This particular image was from a film called Atonement about a man that chooses to be a soldier instead of stay in prison. Here is the photograph of his work shown below:

The poppy's in this photograph are something that even now are something used to in memory of soldiers in the war. This connects to Titanic as although not soldiers there were still many people that died on that boat and families who miss them so it is a similar concept. Another artist we looked at was Cindy sherman who did 'untitled film stills'.

Digital version of  people going around the one person making her feel trapped like you would have when the titanic sunk.

  We were able to capture the movement we wanted very well around the still subject however decide it was missing something so we added another subject in the middle. We had the 2 still subjects hold hands to give a sense of hope together and emphasis the worry with their closeness. Below is the second digital image we produced:

When shooting our pinhole we had to sway slowly due to the long exposure. Our image however did not come out so maybe the bin was not sealed properly. We re-shoot it on another day for about 20 minutes

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Sources:

Book: Movie Photos by Alex Bailey, page 212-213