Michal Macku
Michal Macku's photo here shows a powerful connotation of eeriness, suggesting this subject isn't happy with his face and is wanting to scratch it out. This important is important in showing this because of the nudity displayed, this helps as you can see the veins on the arms- showing strain. It also creates a dehumanizing connotation- suggest he is animal-like, perhaps a lion.
James Cant
James Cant produced a series of images displaying children and what seems to be an empty chair, however there was original a family member sat in the chair and then edited out. This displays the child's emotion perfectly. This example is of a young girl is was shoot with her mother. If this wasn't put into context, the connotation would be of an innocent young girl lost in thought.
Aurelia Paraschiv
Aurelia Paraschiv has a collection of different images all portraying/ with the connotation of loneliness. With minimum subjects, either on their own, or showing movement across the frame. Yet my favorites of her work are the rain ones with a vignette around it. The way the focus is on the rain making the two people in the background blurred. Thus making it difficult for us to read into who they are, we can't see genders yet they could be in a relationship or just family. Yet the rain aspect creates deeper meaning- perhaps they have lost someone they deeply love.
Brassai
Brassai's series of "Paris de nuit"- translating to Paris at night conveys a documentary of love. Starting with what appears to be a happy relationship between a female and male and are deeply in love. Yet as the photos progress, the atmosphere changes to lost/ heart break. We see the female on her own. Leaving the question what happened to him? Did he die in battle? I choose this images for Brassai because I like how the couple are sat in their own corner, no one else is invading them, it's their own bubble. Joined by the reflections of the mirrors either side help increase the security between the pair as it is only them and their reflections.
Christopher McKenney.
Christopher McKenney's work displays a creepy and eerie atmosphere/ feel to it. The photos vary from having half the body edited out, they are in water, or as you can see from this photo the whole body is disappeared. I really like this image because at first glimpse, this is a photo of balloons on a rope. Yet you can see from the end of the rope this is an image suggesting a depression atmosphere. The irony between the bright colours of the balloons suggesting fun and the noose suggesting suicide makes this a very intriguing and interesting image.
Katie Colgan
Katie Colgan's photos consist of a variety of different atmospheres through changes of editing and scenery. The main aspect is the lack of human subjects. Colgan's work conveys empty sceneries connotating different emotions. For example, the image I chose, even though there is no human subjects there is an atmosphere of fun- without actually seeing visual facial emotions. This is because the connotation of a fun fair is exciting and a fun day out. Fun dais are a shield from the outside pain, this photo captures this because you see the focus of the pavement following around the park and then when you focus into the image, you see a gate- the main shield of the park.
Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing took a series of images, where she went around the streets asking people to write what they were feeling on a piece of paper while she took an image of it. This is an example of her work. I really like this because the emotion contrasts the look of the subject. This conveys the "Don't judge a book by its cover". This subject looks well paid and very successful, yet the paper suggests otherwise.
Lucinda Chua
Lucinda Chua took photos of empty chairs. This one is my favourite because other than the loneliness mood, it also creates an eerie/ creepy atmosphere. This is because a cinema theatre is normally filled with people yet as it is empty it raises questions to why it is like this. Chua's work consists of various objects/ scenes portraying different atmospheres.
Laurel Komos
Whilst researching I came across a varied selection of photography from Laurel Komos, yet my favourite is the ones with Polaroid photos because it forms a connotation of nostalgia- for example thinking of a lost love. I really like this image because it conveys a loneliness atmosphere/ sad. Additionally, this image has a connotation of infidelity- unfaithfulness . This is because it is of a photo of her holding hands with someone yet it appears to be someone else holding this image- suggesting she is yearning her love with someone else.
Joel Robison
Joel Robison has created a series of different images which are edited in really intriguing and interesting. This is an example of his work which I really like because its unordinary. The denotation of a man swing on a line of lights with the background of the top of Big Ben of this photo is a very original piece of work. Yet this photo holds the connotation of someone looking at the world from a new perspective, the size of him is out of proportion with everything else- showing the how different this is. Also the subject appears to be gazing away, suggesting he is lost in deep thought.
Katie Crawford.
http://www.katiejoycrawford.com/myanxiousheart
Katie Crawford's work was one of my favorite to research because they are really interesting to look at. The denotation of a subject being sat in an eye timer surrounding with clocks is a really though provoking idea. This holds the connotation that she is feeling trapped and is quite anxious because feels as if she is running out of time- soon she will be drowning in sand. This links with all her other work because they also hold anxious thoughts, for example capturing a subject wrapped in cling-film- suffocating.
Katie Crawford's work was one of my favorite to research because they are really interesting to look at. The denotation of a subject being sat in an eye timer surrounding with clocks is a really though provoking idea. This holds the connotation that she is feeling trapped and is quite anxious because feels as if she is running out of time- soon she will be drowning in sand. This links with all her other work because they also hold anxious thoughts, for example capturing a subject wrapped in cling-film- suffocating.
Kyle Thompson.
Kyle Thompson's work conveys the mood of nostalgia. I choose this because it reminded me of a photo which belonged in a diary. Even though this image has a denotation of a guy looking out the window of a car, it holds the connotation of a summer love which perhaps has been lost for a long time and someone is trying to reconnect with them. This comes across through the musty aspect, it seems as if it's a summer "Road trip" and these teenagers are just out for a laugh, the person taking the shot seems to like this person- it's as if an eye-line shoot of an admirer.
Mike Broadway.
This image links with the rest of the series because they appear to be a CCTV type. I really like this feel because it's as if us as the audience are looking into this person's life, yet they are unaware. There is a chance this person really does not know, which I think is a really good concept. This however was my favorite image of his work because the subject is a silhouette so their identity is hidden (this could be anyone).
Christian Sampson.
Much like Katie Crawford's work, I really like Christian Sampson's work because I believe the connotations you can pull apart from these images are really interesting. This image is an example, the denotation is someone is clearly just about to cut a be of string with a knife at the end which will land in the neck of this person. Yet the fine art aspect of it holds lots of connotations, for starters, the black lines which appear to be veins could to be this person is so down that even her inside is being to become darken but the hate. The person appears to be a lot of mental pain, she feels threatened. I also like how the vignette and the "old-ish" filter on it makes it appear to be an emotion this person has been feeling for a very long time- yet how she is hiding her face shows she is still hiding it because she is scared if she makes any movement, the knife will drop.
Christian Hopkins.
Christian Hopkins is another example of fine art through a variety of different manipulation techniques. I choose this image because it is most likely for my work as at this moment in time I can manipulate my images in the way this photograph does, even though they are really intriguing. The reason behind me picking this image is also because it shows the pain of this subject, they are struggling with something- alone- no-one is with him to help. I like how the movement is shown to show his mental struggle. What is hard to tell is if this is an image to show an actual movement of someone in pain, or a mental movement of someone.
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