For component 1 I researched a lot of artist for inspiration such as Man Ray, Laszlo Moholy and Anna Akins and explored their ideas and techniques. One photographer that I researched was Man Ray did a lot of work on photograms and I focused on his work while experimenting in the darkroom. I was inspired by Man Rays work on photograms which he called 'rayogrammes' which are made by exposing light to photographic paper and using objects to cover space in the paper creating shadows. I experimented with photograms and was able to make a few outcomes. I think that photograms create really interesting photographs by the way they manipulate the light on to photographic paper and transform it into an image. Experiment in the darkroom is interesting because overtimes there is a different outcome. I decided to edit my photograms on photoshop with a colour effect. Photogrames are always black and white but I wanted to further experiment with one of the photograms that I wasn't that pleased with. I decided to change the way the image was viewed by scanning the image onto a computer and change the colour of the image. I think the outcome is interesting because shade is something that you would associate with photograms; not necessarily colour. I decided to use these brightly contrasting colours when editing the image because I think it makes the photographs distorted. I also experimented with pinhole cmaeras, light painting, chemigrams and cayonotypes. I like the effect on a photo when using a pinhole camera to take the image. The images is captured by the light through the tine hole in the camera and creates an unclear image. I made the camera with a container that I painted black on the inside. It is important that it is painted black so that the light doesn't react with the photographic paper and cause the image to be black.
I've investigated different themes such as Abstraction, Street photography, Edges and Natural World. I started with abstraction. I researched different artists such as Hannah Hoch, John Badessari. I like John Badessari's work, he used normal photographs of people and covers their faces with dots. I really like his work because it is original and i like the contrast of the normal images and the coloful dots on faces. I responded to this image with photographs I had taken on a dslr canon camera and used the paint tool from the dark room to edit the images with the colours dots. Evolving some concepts that i had used before in the darkroom e.g. chemigrams and photograms I produced a final piece. I used image that I had taken on a camera of someones face then made a negative of the image on photoshop and using an enlarge made a negative of the edited image. By already editing the image to be black and white it meant that the image produced in the dark room was more like the original. I then used different materials such as glue and developed the image to create an abstraction effect to the image.