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Here is  some questions we were to ask ourself's regarding the festival.

Questions:

How many images?

What size images?

What materials?

Budget?

Use of video projection? 

Images for sale?

Publicity?

How long to produce the exhibition?

Answers:

1. 30 of our images & 30 of our practitioners images ( 6 images for each artist )

2. A2/A3

3. All images will be mounted and framed - White walls, black frames, white mount board. 

4. £900 Prints / £960 Frames / £60 Mount / £500 promotion / £2,000 flights

5. N/A

6. £1200 for small frames, 150 prints at £4 each. We will sell them at £20 each which will sum to £3,000 and we'll make a profit of £1,800

7. Website, leaflets, magazine publication, local promotion as well as international, sponsorships, press release, social network ... Could play on the use of Capital Culture. 

8. 1 Year to produce -

Basic Break down of the year : 

Get everyone together to plan

Sort venue

Measure venue and plan space

Decide on what six images to show

Start promoting straight away

Organise printing

Organise framing 

Decide on the layout

Lighting 

other practitioners

The images below are of the other pactitioners that the other members of my group have chosen.

Matt Smith-Martin Schoeller

Becky Hughes-Bruno Metra and Laurence Jeanson

Tayler Wray-Lauren Greenfield

 

 

Rachel Mayers-Quentin Arnaud

 

 

 

Final Images

First set of images

The image below are a practice shoot since i did not now how I wanted to do this shoot for exampal the firts 3 images are portraits of my dad and his tattoos wera as the last 2 images are just tattos.

The images above are of my dad and his tattos. I thought that because I know what those tattoos mean to my dad and to me that it would be a good idea for the shoot to just focuse on him and his tattoos bcause they are a part of him.

With the idea of focusing on one person I also had to think about just the tattoos I ididnt know if I wanted to just photograph the tattoos but then I would not understand why they have them and how they contrabute to their identity.

So after talking with Jason about my images and how to go further with them I have desided to carry on with just focusing on my dad and his tattoos, not just because I have easy access to photographing him on a daily basis but because I also link his tattos to my memorys which means they also mean something to me not just my dad. With the image above as a stating point I will be photography my dad on a daily basis while does what ever he does as long as I get his tattos in the image as well.

chosen practitioner- peter baste

Peter Baste

 Peter Baste is a american photographer. The series "True Norwegian black metal” is a collection of work that shows a group of people who wear black and white make-up, spikes and fake blood not only do they look satanic they have also been known to burn down churches and desecrating graveyard showing that for some its not just music its part of identity.

The images from the “Norwegian black metal” collection are portraits of different people each looking scary no matter what environment they are in. One image shows a part of a car with a scary black and white face in the divers’ seat. The image is an example of what they look like on a daily bases no matter were they are, in the woods or out on the streets.

Some of the images are in black and white which are the most interesting because it makes their make-up stand out more from the rest of the image, no one+ is getting distracted by something brightly coloured+ in the background. There are some colour photos as well which work when there is fake blood used for make-up. Each portrait is different, some show the person just looking at the camera with their make up on in the middle of the street were over’s are show the person looking at the camera for example one image show someone looking at the camera holding an up side down cross at the camera with their arms and face are covered in blood, showing that they take black metal seriously.

Peter Baste’s images are being displayed in the large hall. The images will grab your attention,it could be good or bad but no matter what you think of the subculture the images are something that could shine a light on it in a way that would encourage overs to ether photograph or become interested in the alternative types of subculture and that every one has a different identity.

ideas for identity

One of my ideas  for identity was religion it has always been something that has defined a person identitiy. It can sometimes become their life, can also sometimes control what theu do and warp their beliefs. so with this thought in my head I was thinking of photographing buddhist what they do and how they live their life.

 

Stuart Isett

 

 

 

 

The images above are by Stuart Isett I could not find much information about him but I do find his photography quite interesting. The images are similar to what I would want to do except I would like to phrtograph them during meditation and other practices they do.

 

 

 

Another idea for the festival was how people change the way they look through peasings, tattoos and make up, I find that these can be a part of someones identity or a way for someone to express them selfs for exampal for thousands of years many cultures have used Henna to decorate the skin, a tradition that remains unchanged to this day, just like henna some groupd use tattos as a simple like gangs or people who want to express them selfs.

 

 

 

The image above is by Cary Wolinsky the photos was used for National Geographic even though I will be photographing tattoos i though that having an exampal of how people use body art.

Riga, Latvia

http://bturn.com/4440/eastern-european-cities-have-the-fastest-internet/riga-latvia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga

Riga is the capital of Latvia, the largest city in the Baltic States, and the second-largest city of the Eastern Baltic. It holds about half of the country's population.

festival ideas

Working with my group we have chosen our location and theme of our chosen festival. The theme for our festival is culture

 

Culture: the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

 

The ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society.

 

 culture is not just on thing it is alot of different beliuefs, way of life and something that can define a person. So we desided to focuse of one idea which is identity. It can be the way a person dresses or their religion that defines them.

 

The location for the cultural festival will be Riga in Latvia. Riga is the city of captal culture for 2014 so we thought that it would be a great place to hold a photography festival with the theme culture.

Photomonth in Krako

 

The 11th edition of Krakow Photomonth Festival focuses on fashion. We take a closer look at what we wear, how and why we wear it, and how we present and represent it. The Polish-British cultural anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski used to say that one can study any culture as a whole through its dietary and sexual habits. We believe that clothes and clothes-related customs might be a similar key to our contemporary culture. 

The festival is interested in a broad continuum ranging from an individual style to the fashion industry template, from private and intimate rituals to public and oppressive dress codes and uniforms. It is fascinated with camouflage, disguise and masks. 

briefing

For this assignment I will be working in a group. I will be first tesearching international photography festivals this will then help me and my group to creat our own festival. The festival will have a practitioners of our choosing that will be linked the the chosen themeof the festival. We will also produce our own body of work that is also linked to the chosen theme. The group will alsopresent thefestival to other members of our class.