Collective’s Encounter has well and truly kicked off and what a great event it’s been so far. Went to Derby on Sunday and listened to a Joel Meyerwitz talk with Jane from the Collective too, which made my whole day seem as if I was standing on cloud 9 it was that inspiring. More on that in [...]
February 26, 2011
Click on the image to watch the video in vimeo. Or alternatively click here: http://vimeo.com/20236127 The Photography Collective’s installation, Orchestra of Disorientation, explores the concept of the Flâneur and surveillance from a central thoroughfare for pedestrian in Birmingham, UK. Resulting in an immersive and disorientating piece of photographic street theatre: a collective orchestra of life. [...]
February 19, 2011
Hi George here, so updates on the video making so far: Its flowing very well at the moment, I’ve worked most nights 8-11, plus grabbed a few hours in the day when I’m waiting for clients, so its allowed me to really immerse myself into it….. get into the flow of the whole orchestra better, [...]
February 19, 2011
As our ideas of the flaneur and what we’ve shot start to culminate into it’s final piece, we have been reflecting on the idea of using text within out video. The use of text is prominent in my own personal work, complimenting, questioning or probing deeper into the subjects I explore. So when we were [...]
February 15, 2011
so in the last blog I mentioned that Jo, George and myself (I’m Jaskirt btw!) had a mini meeting of minds and starting to brain storm how we should shape the video with our keywords. So George has got to work on some of those key concepts of grouping our photographs and making them flow [...]
February 12, 2011
Today was a mini meeting of minds for the photography collective as we try to get a cohesive strong video piece ready for 2 weeks time (eek!!) Developing from our last ideas on the key words, we began to put the different pieces of the puzzle together. The pieces being our photographs, the puzzle our [...]
February 7, 2011
Our discussions have lead us to discussing the themes and key words that we feel have evolved from our photo shoots. Some of these included motion, cycle and dream. The collection of words was an initial way for us to brain storm and bounce off our ideas of what we felt from the flaneur photo shoots. It [...]
February 4, 2011
Waiting in a state of limbo as Yasmina will feed back tonight on our test piece. Time is running away with us, will we need to re shoot, but feel the work is in a steady rate of progression. So far it’s been a good atmosphere shooting together, and especially bouncing ideas off each other and [...]
January 28, 2011
Researching about the flaneur through the Collectives Encounter blog before the first shoot The Photography Collective did, gave me some ideas of what I’d like to explore. I was thinking about this idea of how you can wonder and gaze in one place but your mind can be elsewhere, I also started thinking about the [...]
January 28, 2011
The Photography Collective are exhibiting work at the International Format Festival. They will be showcasing new work with other Collectives from around the world as part of the Collectives Encounter from 4 March – 3 April 2011. The Photography Collective will be showing an installation. It will explore the concepts of the Flaneur and surveillance from [...]
March 10, 2011