His photographs, for me, were very interesting to look at in terms of aesthetics, composition and technique.
Whilst Tom was speaking, he read out two passages that were very distinctive for me and the work in progress throughout my Final Major Project. One of which was taken from www.oneandother.com - an online magazine for the city of York and surrounding areas- in which he has written several articles, which led me to inverstigate these other artistic scrawlings. To be honest however, I did find them pretty articulate and of refined interest to read.
Quotes below are taken from http://www.oneandother.com/authors/tom-rodgers/ from his articles about Photography and comments about his personal work.
"... there is not many an occasion when I recognise anything in a fraction of a second, nor is there a great deal of realisation that anything of unusual significance is happening around me. Perhaps my decisive moment is the ongoing moment of the continual pursuit of photographic images that might render visible something of how I feel about life and my place within the world"
"I work mainly in black and white as it allows me to concentrate more on composition and formal elements and so the use of colour when I am working becomes an element around which I build images, focusing on details and arrangements that would otherwise become lost in black and white."
"Simply explaining what is in a photograph is, of course, easy, if not pointless – we can see what’s in the picture, why do I need to describe it?"
"... it often becomes common to fall into the trap of attempting to explain a photograph merely by describing the content of the image, a process which is all but pointless... the words will not do it justice regardless of the lucidity of the description and will ultimately create within the recipient's mind a unique image largely variable to the original."
"We all take pictures, very nearly all of the time, recording the events that we are involved in and gathering memories for recall at some unspecified but apparently universal time when we will want to look back on who we were at a specific point in the lives that we have led"
"...I do feel that there is, within images of people and especially in images of oneself, a very definite attempt to retain life"
"The knowledge that while one is explicitly being in the present moment, the ‘me’, the self that is being observed in the image is, of necessity, no longer being and, in the future, that the self of the present moment will also cease to be"
- These last quotes in particular represent how I feel towards my own work; my FMP is to do with the idea of memory, existence and the idea of their deterioration, through photographic documentation. The images used are of myself as a child, but by editing myself out of them, the photograph becomes anonymous and therefore only I understand the true context and meaning of the image, whilst my audience can only take connotation from their own views and interpretation. Something that is of paramount importance for my exhibition.
Whilst Tom was speaking, he read out two passages that were very distinctive for me and the work in progress throughout my Final Major Project. One of which was taken from www.oneandother.com - an online magazine for the city of York and surrounding areas- in which he has written several articles, which led me to inverstigate these other artistic scrawlings. To be honest however, I did find them pretty articulate and of refined interest to read.
Quotes below are taken from http://www.oneandother.com/authors/tom-rodgers/ from his articles about Photography and comments about his personal work.
"... there is not many an occasion when I recognise anything in a fraction of a second, nor is there a great deal of realisation that anything of unusual significance is happening around me. Perhaps my decisive moment is the ongoing moment of the continual pursuit of photographic images that might render visible something of how I feel about life and my place within the world"
"I work mainly in black and white as it allows me to concentrate more on composition and formal elements and so the use of colour when I am working becomes an element around which I build images, focusing on details and arrangements that would otherwise become lost in black and white."
"Simply explaining what is in a photograph is, of course, easy, if not pointless – we can see what’s in the picture, why do I need to describe it?"
"... it often becomes common to fall into the trap of attempting to explain a photograph merely by describing the content of the image, a process which is all but pointless... the words will not do it justice regardless of the lucidity of the description and will ultimately create within the recipient's mind a unique image largely variable to the original."
"We all take pictures, very nearly all of the time, recording the events that we are involved in and gathering memories for recall at some unspecified but apparently universal time when we will want to look back on who we were at a specific point in the lives that we have led"
"...I do feel that there is, within images of people and especially in images of oneself, a very definite attempt to retain life"
"The knowledge that while one is explicitly being in the present moment, the ‘me’, the self that is being observed in the image is, of necessity, no longer being and, in the future, that the self of the present moment will also cease to be"
- These last quotes in particular represent how I feel towards my own work; my FMP is to do with the idea of memory, existence and the idea of their deterioration, through photographic documentation. The images used are of myself as a child, but by editing myself out of them, the photograph becomes anonymous and therefore only I understand the true context and meaning of the image, whilst my audience can only take connotation from their own views and interpretation. Something that is of paramount importance for my exhibition.
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