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Angie Eldred

‘Humanism’

Ella Gunn

Cyanotype

In my self-directed folio I explored ideas of anxieties for the future and the different experiences in life for each person. Throughout this year I have experienced many anxieties and concerns regarding my future after leaving high school, which is something that I explored in my photographs. However, I not only wanted to present my own concerns, but also explore the nature of people’s fears as they reach important parts in their life. Through the use of pathways and roads, I explored such an idea, using them as metaphors in the photograph for the path leading to your future. I aided in this exploration with my use of one of the first photographic techniques, the cyanotype of which I was inspired to do by the contemporary artist John Dugdale and traditional artist Ansel Adams. I played with the relationships between humans and nature, and through the use of the cyanotype, which adds a moodiness through the intensity of the blue, I was able to depict all of my own anxieties in the photographs as well as the nature of human beings fears as they reach precipices in their life.

Inkjet digital print

At the start of the year the aim of my folio was to create a body of work that represented what we can’t see when looking at the human body. I was clear I wanted my image to be portraiture with a single central focus and dark studio background, that emulated the aethereal, luminosity of Bill Henson’s depiction of skin and the anthropomorphic lines of the body, juxtaposed with the jagged edges and pop of brightness that the bone possesses.

At the beginning of the year I had a strict idea of what I wanted to do, and that was a similar idea but instead of collage I wanted to use projection. However, after my potential directions and having to adapt my work to be able to construct it at home I soon realized that collage both looked better and was easier to create in isolation. I focused more on collage in my folio, it reflected a more natural looking juxtaposition of bone and skin specifically with the smooth paper I printed on.