honorable mention
Garbhán Myles united kingdom
title
Paperscapes
When I progressed to a Pentax KX and tried out old manual lenses in manual mode, as opposed to kit lenses in auto, I got my head into understanding photography properly. At this point I started exploring landscape photography and fell in love with it. I soon found myself becoming more experimental with landscape work by using ‘in camera multiple exposures’ combined with ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) having been inspired by the British photographer ‘Chris Friel’.
I could say that using the above mentioned techniques aid in my ability to better capture the magickal atmosphere of the Irish landscape. In truth however, this would really be grasping at words as I dont create work with any preconceived concepts or fixed intellectual ideas.
I believe there is no single one true meaning to any works of art, and that artists themselves don't own the interpretation rights to their work. Personally I'm more interested in hearing other peoples description of my work as opposed to blethering on about my own ideas.
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entry description
All the images in this series were created by first playing with India inks and watercolours on sheets of yupo paper. This synthetic waterproof paper allows for some interesting opportunities for creativity, and I used my lens blower to blow the ink around the page (amongst other things). I then put the finished sheets on top of my iPad where I would play with displaying various different photos of mine lbehind the sheets. This added a whole world of light and colour to the mostly colourless images. I then carefully photographed these before proceeding to play with the results in Lightroom in unconventional ways. I also took two of these into Photoshop where I layered them to allow for further experimentation.about the photographer
Photography for me began with shooting the world up close in the form of potpourri jars, kit lat wrappers, bin stains and whatnot. I was producing these abstract visuals for ambient soundscapes which i was creating, and here I found massive passion in finding all these wee magic alien like microcosms all around me.When I progressed to a Pentax KX and tried out old manual lenses in manual mode, as opposed to kit lenses in auto, I got my head into understanding photography properly. At this point I started exploring landscape photography and fell in love with it. I soon found myself becoming more experimental with landscape work by using ‘in camera multiple exposures’ combined with ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) having been inspired by the British photographer ‘Chris Friel’.
I could say that using the above mentioned techniques aid in my ability to better capture the magickal atmosphere of the Irish landscape. In truth however, this would really be grasping at words as I dont create work with any preconceived concepts or fixed intellectual ideas.
I believe there is no single one true meaning to any works of art, and that artists themselves don't own the interpretation rights to their work. Personally I'm more interested in hearing other peoples description of my work as opposed to blethering on about my own ideas.
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