First Exhibition at Chelsea College of Art and Design....First of many

Wow, this is weird...

Never have done a blog before so if i am doing something wrong, which is highly likely, please let me knoe.

So the day before this day, which was 1st of October, we had to bring something in.
A piece of work, any medium, anything really, just proof that you are someone capable of creating Art.

I brought in 2 photographs.

These 2 photographs were created using a feature on my DSLR camera called "Image Overlay"
The First time i experimented with this feature, i was like "This is really cool", but "cool" isn't something you should say as a Fine art Student :s

The more i experimented with it, the more it fascinated me.

This isn's something you do on photoshop, it is straight on your DSLR so you still have that sense of being a photographer.

These images were taken in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. I took images of scenes that interested me, the colour, the form, atmosphere. What are the factors in life that interest you?
Hong kong is CROWDED with people, i mean there's just asians everywhere.

Mong kok is not a high class area, it is filled with old, damaged and ageing buildings. Walls have lost it's paint, water leaking from every floor, rubbish at every corner...this is what i like to shoot. Do you know why?
I bet your thinking "eeewwww" "gross"

I love it, because it is real, natural and real life. Nothing in life is absolute perfect.

This shows history and life happening. This image up top, i took one shot of this scene upright and another shot upside down.
Now when i say this to people they are like "OMG you had to stand upside-down to take it??!"
No....I simply flipped the camera upside down.

Then combining the two images together on the feature "Image Overlay" and the Camera does the rest.
If i didn't like it, i would take another picture and another and another, until i was satisfied basically.

The one up top is called "Hong Kong Apartments #2"
It shows a modern approach in refurbishing
It uses bright colours on a greyish white building, likely to liven up buildings around.
Bridge in the middle is for public use, get to the places they need to go. Connects everything and everyone together.

Now this one on my left here is my favourite. "Hong Kong Apartments"
I have also gotten a few compliments on this which i am proud of.
I extra-larged the image so you can see every detail. Along the sides you have the yellowy green and white buildings which are very old. Some extremely damaged, a cheap place to live.
And in the middle, you have the Markets.

I love the markets and so does everyone who lives and comes to Hong Kong, why? Because everything and yes i mean EVERYTHING is rather cheap and its like (Cowboy Voice) "A box of chocolate, you never know what your gonna..." find.

The only places in this photograph where it is not crowded are the skies.

The reason why i enjoy using this technique in Hong Kong is because it exaggerates the popularity of this location.


You still here or have i lost you? Hope Not :)


On Tuesday, i places the two photographs on the wall. I tried it the other way around but gut told me this was the better layout.

I would have liked to printed them out on a huge scale, i'm taking big, probably not as big as your thinking, like A0 maybe....is that big?
Ooooo, Maybe like 2 meters high, for the photograph on the left.
Giving you a sense that your there, like looking through a glass.

Tutors split the group of 25 into groups of 4. We each talked about our piece, and then when we reunited with everyone else, the ones you talked to about your piece had to tell everyone else about it.
Good method in getting everyone to talk and making sure they listened.

I had some good ideas thrown at me like "Why not try double exposure photography?"
I have looked up a few artist who do this and looks rather interesting.
It does look like a photograph made for posters or a music album cover but the idea of using a film camera interest me. A lot.

We all looked around at other people's work. Many concepts intrigued me however their outcome did not. Some were lacking the "effort look" This is something i created within myself.
I am someone who likes to make something with my hands, whether its painting, sculpture or photography, but the actual piece has to be strong, to back up its concept or else it looses interest on both ends. I enjoy it when seeing a piece of art and thinking "he/she must have worked so hard to do this".

There were not a lot of painting,  this is something i want to get back into, but i am going to talk about this on another blog because this is getting loooonnnnnnggg and i'm worried that you're falling asleep.

should have had a frame around my piece?

What sort of photography do you like? What makes your unique compared to others?

Love Eugene