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I received some useful information on Assignment 4 which, I will take forward to my next assignment.

Firstly, my tutor identified that I had done some good location research but to extend this further I could speak to people that work there or visit regularly for their views and information on the area as this will help my images come across more personal.

Also, a good pointer that sometimes less is more! To try and hide some information within the photo’s leaving more to the viewers imagination rather than letting the image tell the whole story.

Finally, to ensure that I take my time looking at exposure and composition before taking the image this will just help create a better image overall.

For my suggested reading I am going to look at Dan Holdsworth who shows a real consistency of interest across a series and also Wolfgang Tilmans who shows a conceptual consistency across a series – I will then compare these two strategies.

Dan Holdsworth is a British photographer born in 1974 who focuses on large scale photos using traditional techniques. You can see some series of his work here https://www.danholdsworth.com/works/ on his website. Dan Holdsworth seems to mostly focus on textures/patterns and his images look science based. I read an article on the Holdsworth luminous scenes exposing the peripheries of nature by S. Rebonati (2016) where he captures the light adnd geology of the Valle De Joux, Le Brassus. Holdsworth has a clear interest in technology and science which, shows through with his work presenting scientific character. Holdsworth explained that “Wolfgang Tillmans were who inspired me the most because of the subcultural approach” Rebonati, S (2016). As my tutor said Holdsworth shows a real consistency of interest across his series, I can see this, his images show what he is interested in and when I previewed them prior to researching him I thought they were very edgy, textured and scientific.

Next, I researched Wolfgang Tillmans a German photographer born in 1968. Tillmans has a diverse workstyle resulting in a range of series based on lots of different subjects, but he does like to group them into four categories. They are; still life’s, portraits, landscapes and abstractions. Tillmans first gained his photography recognition for photography in clubs and documenting youth (public delivery 2019). Within each of these series he does show that the concept he has applied throughout the images remains with the whole series. In a statement said by Tillmans himself he explained that “Interest not in individual readings but in constructing networks of images and meaning capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject” (Warbelow, A 2001). This shows that each image doesn’t work solely but instead they work together to create a whole idea/thought/point. When Tillmans work goes to exhibitions he rarely has individual images on their own and actually prefers to have images together alongside his newspaper clippings and any other evidence of his research behind his series (Warbelow, A 2001).

Public Delivery (2019) What is Wolfgang Tillmans’ Still Life series all about? https://publicdelivery.org/wolfgang-tillmans-still-life/ Date accessed: 09/01/2020

Rebonati, S (2016) Night Vision: Dan Holdsworth’s – luminous scenes expose the peripheries of nature”. https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/interviews/night-vision-dan-holdsworths-luminous-scenes-expose-the-peripheries-of-nature-alone/ (Date accessed: 21/12/2019).

Warbelow, A (2001) Spotlight Series: Wolfgang Tillmans. https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/node/11322 Date Accessed: 09/01/2020