Reflections - PHOTOGRAPHS - 1

Photography is something really close to me for a long time, but there is something that I have noticed only this year. I can easily make ideas of free themes or really specific ones. 'Memories' makes me think straight (Good and not so good. Things that are related to family, friends, home, etc.).

At first I focused more on technically impressive photographs. I draw few ideas in my notebook as I always do. 

1st. idea was created quickly thinking straight about the mirrors. I was mostly inspired from two photographers Erik Johansson and Martín De Pasquale.

                                                                                                                                                                   Photo by Martín De Pasquale

For 2nd. idea I was inspired by Erik Johansson only. He has tried to show in his artworks two different realities. Quite hard to find two very similar places barely using photoshop. It is because  of my country which looks completely different and it is not only related to landscapes. It has its own architecture, style of traffic and colour theme overall. I found this quite difficult because of pictures I had from Latvia. Tried to find similarities in lines and perspectives, it took a lot of time and patient. 

3rd. idea was important too because of technique how to present my work. Taking photos of important things form Latvia, placing them into jars just as a memories from my past. I gave up on this understanding that there is no actual meaning, it would be just a technique and manipulated old style photos of my personal items.

Other ideas was almost the same as those explained before. I was focused too much on the technique how to present my artwork originally. Only after our first meeting with Leah Gordon I analysed my mistakes. All simple ideas are genial. Though more about the time, meaning and what people leave after themselves.

I paid more attention to the artist Taryn Simon. Her exhibition "Contraband" made in 2010 is a simple idea of taking clean photographs of items. Every composition centered right in the middle, soft light around the objects on white background. Remind me product photography you can see in almost any shop. The idea was simple but I felt that it is too easy in terms of actual photoshoot. Easy to set-up the lights, background and camera. I wanted something more challenging.