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Experimenting with photography

 I found an artist, on Pinterest, called Johan Thörnqvist, i started looking through his work and i really liked them, i couldn't find out much about his techniques ect, as most thing written about him on the internet are in Swedish. I did find a web sight with some of his work ( https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/snarlik/ ). 



I really liked these and they made me think about what i can do in my photography, what if i took the photos and painted on top of them? I really liked this idea i decided to try it out with some of the photographs i had taken for my other unit.

I started with this image by just let my imagination flow...




I think i drew the mice because when i was younger i used to look at a wall or shelves or something and image how a tiny person or a small animal would make there way to the top. I quite liked this technique and decided to take it further!


I liked the idea of using the mice on a photograph of my cat, i thought it was a bit of fun to play around with and quite sweet. i also did one more just to get the feel for it. 

I liked the idea of printing off an image and playing around with it then taking a photo of that so i decided to play around with that idea.


With this one i burned out my face and used an ash tray to fill the negative space. I really like how this turned out. I had the idea of burning out my face with cigarettes, as i smoke and its a habit i hate i have, because of the effects they have on your skin/ appearance and i was burning it over an ash tray two collect the ash from the paper, and when it was cooling i thought it worked so well having the actual contents as the background.

i continued this idea but with lung shapes on a photograph of my friend, i think it would be better if the top she is wearing was all one colour, and the lungs i cut out are a bit lop sided. I think burning the image works better but for specific shapes i could loose control of the shape. Since i already took this image i decided to not precious about it and tried it out anyway.  

I think this looks better now with the burn marks i think it makes the image stronger. i did the same with one of the images of myself.

I think these are quite interesting and has made me think more about what is photography? in the last units i got really into collage making, and this has made me think about taking photographs and making a collage out of them! quite excited to give that a go! 

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