Today at college we had a talk from photographer Sam Cornwell, he took us on a journey through the progression of his work. He stared the talk with his first photography called Pictorial photography that could be influenced man or that you could date. He spoke about how it was "clean", Filled with detail but with no distraction.He then moved onto what he called "finding my voice" he attended university and started developing photography in a dark room he stopped photographing the world and started creating images. He spoke of wet plate collodion, old style camera's and film. He told us he bought 127 disposable camera's, he was almost forced to take photo's as he has a deal on the date he could get them developed and that disposable camera's were his favourite type of camera. He spoke about his filming and a video about his son called 500 days of indigo that i just watched and it is beautiful. He showed us some of his astrophotography that was amazing and his work on the election that he worked with with a friend who had synaesthesia. I loved the progression of his work going from a classical view of photography, as he put it pretty pictures, and developed his own style. Sam Cornwell really opened my eyes to the different types of photography and unusual things you can pull inspiration from.
Link to 500 days of Indigo https://vimeo.com/69986655
Link to 500 days of Indigo https://vimeo.com/69986655
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