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Kosmo Lee-Watanabe

'City Livin'

'Urban Jungle'

Inkjet prints

Artwork one titled ‘City Livin’’ takes inspiration from a couple artists, Faizal Westcott and Vivian Maier, both notable street photographers from different time periods. Westcott is a Youtuber who focuses on street photography, and whom I could credit with the majority of the inspiration for my work. I personally have developed my style through watching and learning from his work processes especially in photo composition and editing.

Artwork two titled ‘Urban Jungle’ takes inspiration from Michael Wolf’s ‘Architecture in Density’ which focuses on the claustrophobic nature

Thea Jones

Two separate series’ that encapsulate the ideas which I explored through out the past two years  of VCE. As specified in my exploration proposal I aimed to focus on the blur between the real and unreal, through surrealism as both an idea and movement. Using a long shutter speed and large aperture in both series’ they share a similar blurred effect which obscures the subject. The first two images using studio lighting are much warmer compared to the natural lighting of a dark bathroom. All images revolve around my obsession with surrealism namely as a form of expression for women. In all photographs I use myself as the subject as a result of the years circumstances as well as a way to have control of my own movements but less of the cameras. Using self portraiture I was able to elude to female surrealists of the 20s and 30s and explore the perception of the body obscured by steam, light, form and movement.