Tom Lisboa

March 1, 2020July 29, 2020 ~ Johnathan Hall ~ 1 Comment

I went to a symposium at Goldsmiths on 29/02/2020 after photography walk in Deptford. Tom Lisboa was one of the artists talkings there. He talked of photography as a starting point for his practice but then using and manipulating it to make works that play with the limitations of photography. A lot of the work involves urban intervention where the photograph is site-specific and intervenes with the ‘natural’ urban landscape. I found this work very interesting but what interested me more was when he started discussing other work which at first glance appears more conventionally photographic.

My Thoughts on: Repeat photography, post‐phenomenology and “being‐with” through the image (at the First World War cemeteries of Asiago, Italy) by Tania Rossetto (2018)

February 19, 2020July 29, 2020 ~ Johnathan Hall ~ 1 Comment

I came across this paper by Tania Rossetto when searching for ‘using repeat photography creatively’. I am glad I found it because it has made me think about my own form of repeat photography differently. It is important to note that the paper hasn’t made me think about using repeat photography creatively as such but rather thinking about it differently. I may also be able to refer to this paper when writing the extended written project.

Alexander Gronsky

January 2, 2020July 29, 2020 ~ Johnathan Hall ~ 7 Comments

My tutor recommended I look at some of the work of Alexander Gronsky so here are my thoughts on a couple of his projects that really caught my eye.

Yan Preston – ‘Mother River’ (2010-2014)

© Yan Preston (2010-2014) 'Y61 6,000km from the river source'

August 22, 2019July 29, 2020 ~ Johnathan Hall ~ 4 Comments

Yan Preston’s vast project Mother River which spanned 4 years (2010-2014) utilises strategic planning to produce random and varying results.

Ray Metzker – Pictus Interruptus

© Ray Metzker (1976-1981) 'Pictus Interruptus'

August 7, 2019July 29, 2020 ~ Johnathan Hall ~ 1 Comment

I find Ray Metzker (1931-2014)’s work very alluring, particularly one project called Pictus Interruptus (1976-1981).

Noémie Goudal

April 8, 2019July 29, 2020 ~ Johnathan Hall ~ 5 Comments

Something might have come to me when looking at Noémie Goudal’s fantastic work. I have been interested for some time in something I term in my head 'tessellating reality’. Here, a single picture of a scene is taken but then split up into smaller parts. These parts can overlap or tessellate to form the larger … Continue reading Noémie Goudal

Mari Mahr

February 25, 2019July 29, 2020 ~ Johnathan Hall ~ 3 Comments

The past and the present are fused with Mahr’s work. That is the photograph printed (occurring in the past) and the object which appears in front of it (the present).