Photographs

I wanted to take a brief break from paint, so I decided to use photography. I adore the way Richter painted on photos, therefore I decided to take some of my photos and use different mediums on them to create contrasting marks and textures. Overall my favourite type of photograph was the polaroids, I feel that the pure size of them changes the way you look at a photograph. I believe that it makes them more indistinct because of the way the photo develops slightly faded and then the paint added to the top really creates the effect of the object being indistinct. My favourite polaroid is defiantly the middle one with red paint oozing down it. I think that it really makes you look closely at the photograph and what image is actually of. My favourite normal photograph would have to be the bottom picture with the blue ink running down it. Although this picture is simply of a puddle, the ink makes it look like it has been captured and trapped. Almost like a prison. I really like this idea because you can interpretate the picture in any way you want too. Overall, I am happy with how this experiment has turned out, I have looked at similar ways of creating marks onto photograph like Richter has, in addition to that I have looked at different ways of working onto the photographs to make them indistinct or more indistinct.