Interim Crit

The response to our presentation was that we should thinking more deeply into the idea of robotics if we are to carry on with that point of direction. On reflection, I would say that robotics was our initial inspiration but has moved onto the feeling structure and constrainment becoming increasingly more apparent whilst growing up towards being an adult.

However, some visual inspiration that Adam and Jon mentioned to us was the work of Rodchenko and the layering effect of multiple exposures and photomontage of Moi Ver's work based in Paris.


These are a selection of pieces from Moi Ver's 'Paris' book:

The idea of education being structured and multiple lessons and subjects and even years of education layering upon each other to build a 'body' of study within a person. A person could also be portrayed using this aestetic to have layers of academic, perosnal and social education throughout their lives from different locations, areas of study and life experiences.

Taking inspiration from this work, our images could become new pieces of work themselves, with multiple images within one print. We had not thought about this idea previously, so the comments within the Crit were helpful and opened up new thoughts about what we could do within our post-production work.

In terms of layout, this book offers a different alternative to the layouts that we have been looking at for inspiration. due to this book being more documentary photography, the style is evidently different to the usual layout of fashion photography. It could be an idea to place fashion photography in a more documentary style layout and context, to portray that we are creating a document/viewpoint on education rather than creating/styling a fashion spread...?

A selection of Alexander Rodchenko's work:

This photomontage aesthetic is very similar to that of Moi Ver's work (above). The idea of layering images and ideologies together to create a statement interests me a lot, mainly due to me personally liking mixed media and collage work within art. Depending on whether the other group members like this idea, we could experiment and develop this idea further. As these pieces of work are showing documentary style photography and their montaging method was not as polished or tidy as it could be now, they are quite linear and graphic. Whereas, with fashion photography we could take inspiration from the montaging idea but produce the collage effect any way we wanted. Using a much neater method and aesthetic the montages that we would produce could fit within a fashion magazine without looking out of place or 'alien' to its target audience.

The linear aesthetic above could be related to Education in the way that the education system evolves around structure and progression towards a final point, ie. end of the line at primary school and secondary school, on GCSE and A-Level results day, at your Graduation ceremony, etc. The end of the line represents further study or pastures new. The idea of the lady walking over these lines looks like she is escaping or leaving the education system and its hold on her life. She looks like she has felt contrained within the structure of it all and she has left or finished the system and its end for the start of her life away from the traditional academic education system we all know.

This piece reminds me of Andy Warhol's work and the Pop Art Movement due to the black and white image being placed over a contrast block colour. The female in this image appears to be shouting or protesting which relates to the statement of structure and constrainment that we are addressing from the word 'education' but also relates to the numerous strikes and protests from both teachers and students over many years due to education and rights, and of course, the recent protests over the rise in University fees.