Photomontage

 

This project brought me a severe amount of frustration. I did a lot of reflection during this time period and felt incredibly uninspired to do anything after working on this project. I got lost in the complexities of chasing narratives that don't exist. Trying to make connection that are not there and adding useless elements that confuse the image did no service to myself at all. I chose to strip back all of the superficial elements of this image and focus on my original idea mixing in some elements of experimenting when it came to my development and improving on my technique. So often I get lost in the narrative when creating work that I end up creating superficial things that don't actually mean anything to me. For this exercise all I wanted to do was put a skateboarder (myself) jumping onto a rail down a stair set that is protruding out of my mouth. Purely for the joy of creating and thinking this is funny was so much more impactful than any other iterations I tried to make. If anything this lesson has taught me that reaching for a narrative that doesn't exist will only harm your work and become unauthentic, and above all else, having fun is far more important than anything. 


For some of the fun experimenting I did whilst creating this project I used Push and Pull processing methods to analyze the differences in contrast in the final images. For the three images combined together they were all metered at 400 shot at 125 and developed at 6 minutes rather then 11 to account for the different in exposure. The entire photo was metered at 800 iso shot with 400 iso film, the result is a ton of grain and an unique combinations in dynamic range. 

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