Her book Frantic presents a series which is entitled “Shelters”, it consists of black-and-white photos which were taken in 2016-2017 in Warsaw, Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro. The photos present temporary constructions which are built inside domestic households, on balconies and in gardens. They are based on the common children's game in which the children build a shelter, tent, house, bunker or fort within their own domestic space. And the process of making a situation in which adults build protective, temporary shelters is as important for Piotrowska as the final outcome in her photos. these forts are show both empty with no-one inside and without them protecting anything and as ‘shelters’ occupied by and protecting a member of the household from the rest of the house. As if the domestic house hold itself didn't provide enough protection from the outside world. The project was also inspired by homeless people's temporary constructions and by the general notion of home. Her project links to the inside outside theme in a way in which could be controversial to the very obvious meaning of the topic. however in a deeper meaning, the projects built houses in these domestic areas make the domestic places the outside to these structures. This is an interesting approach to the theme because for us, houses are considered to be safe, warm and full of love. Yet in Piotrowskas photos the houses are made to seem like the complete opposite, as if the house was dangerous and that's why these people are building these structures inside them to further protect themselves. Children build forts to escape from the very scary reality they live in. Whether it's the rapidly changing climate of our world, or simply the stresses felt by families within the home, a fort provides a sense of shelter, allowing children to benefit from the illusion that they have an invincible little spot in the house that belongs only to them. Building a fort is a way for children to ensure they have a safe place to retreat to when they need one. |
During the editing process, I first used the colour mixer tool and I took out all the reds as well as most of the oranges and greens, the orange I turned down because it is next to red on the colour wheel, meaning that most likely cats can't see orange that well either, then leaving most of the blues and the yellows in the photo alone but turning then down a little bit, to further add to the effect. Because there were no purples or magentas in the photo I left the two alone. Doing this allowed me to get a similar effect on the photo as to the one I saw online that referred to what cats see. For the lighting, I edited the photo so that the objects where a bit fait on their line this is because cats can't recognise sharp lines between objects as well as humans can. I also made the picture have a small white haze overtop, this was because cats can't see very well up close and I wanted it to be a representation of that. Finally I cropped the image, I cropped the picture and made this image landscape instead of portrait, I believe that this better represents the way that cats see the world. This is because Cats have a wider field of view which is about 200 degrees, compared with humans' 180-degree view. I completed all of these steps for all the photos in my response to Joanna Piotrowska - Frantic
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Eggleston began his career shooting in black and white, he started at a time when black and white photography had started to to be accepted as an art form. in his early days, he called attention to familiar places / spaces in peoples lives and objects that are in it. He created pictures of an everyday scene as he shot from an unusual angle, and the subject matter and cropped composition mix together producing a snapshot.
He makes his pictures visually interesting by playing with scale, shooting many different photos from many different angles, a good example of this is when by shooting from a low angle, the tricycle in the photo which is a small child's toy, is made to look huge, dwarfing the two ranch houses in the background. The composition on this image is very natural and it doesn't seem forced upon the viewers at all, the tricycle may even bring back a sense of nostalgia for the viewers. |
This photo is my favourite one from the photos that I took when working with my dad. I like this photo because it contains things that belong where they are. For example, the dirt here doesn't belong inside the house and it makes a nice contrast to the nice flooring and painted walls around it. After this photoshoot, I realised that I want to focus more, and photograph more things that are inside but belong outside and things that are outside but belong outside as I believe that this is an interesting topic to me.
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This is my favourite photo because it not only clearly sticks to the theme of inside outside, but it also has a gloomy and intense feeling to it. The fact the that photo is taken behind a fence, may make the viewers feel trapped as there is alot going in both the fore ground and the background of the photo
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