V&A Museum: History Of Photography

Over the summer I went to visit the V&A's photography gallery to see the history of photography exhibition. I really like a lot of the photographs and saw a lot of photographers that I have researched into in previous projects. I feel that visiting this exhibition has also helped me see more documentary photography work and photographers that I can researched more in depth for the current documentary project that I have picked for A2.

The photographers gallery is a quite a new room display at the V&A and opened to the public on 24 October 2011. However the V&A has had previous photo exhibitions such as 'the history of photography' which was shown from the 1840's to the 1970's. The V&A was also the first museum that started to collect photographs in 1852. The current exhibition being displayed at the gallery is a re-hang of 'The history of Photography' and the museum say that it will be re-curated every 18 months and will be showing temporary displays such as contemporary photography in other galleries in the museum.

I really liked the arrangement of the gallery room and really liked how it was new, fresh and organised.  Even though there was a small paragraph about each photo and photographer below each photo. The different types of documentary photographs and the years they were taken in were grouped together   alongside a big information board for each group around the gallery which explained about the period in which the photographs were taken and the history of photography in this time. These were the names of all the group sections and what the info boards were called: After the war: Personal Vision, Facts and Focus, Documents, Records and Travel, Discovery and Modernism. Alongside these information boards there was also two boards called In-Focus which focused in depth on two photographers shown in the gallery. When I went the two photographers were 'Eugene Atget' and 'The Bechers (Bernd and Hilla Becher)'. Photographers such as: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Irving Penn and Diane Arbus were shown in the gallery.

This was one of the photographs I liked a lot from the gallery and is by a photographer called Antanas Sutkus. Antanas Sutkus (born 27 June 1939 in Kluoniškiai) is a renowned Lithuanian photographer and was one of the co-founders and a President of the Photography Art Society of Lithuania. This documentary portrait photo on the left is one of Sutkus's most well known photographs called ‘Pioneer, Ignalina’ or ‘The First Grader’ and was taken in 1964 in Sutkus's homeland of Lithuania. Since 1953 Sutkus spent most of his time documenting the changing life of his homeland of Lithuania. This photo is of a young boy dressed with the scarf of a young pioneers, which was a communist party organisation for young people. In the description of the photo it says Sutkus was trying to show honesty and intensity. I really love how he's done this and he has gone down to the child's level and been able to line the camera perfectly up with the child's face so that you can really see the emotion of how the boy looks tired, upset and quite confused because of how he is gazing into the camera. I also like how the boys behind have different emotions to this one boy in front because of how they are quite interested and happy when looking at the camera. I really like how the lighting isolates the boy from the other children behind because of how you can see his bold outline of his head, upper body and also the detail of his scarf. I feel that the lighting is natural but quite bright high contrast light coming from the left upper side because of how the boys in the background have a lot of shadows on the right side of their faces and parts of the sun glares on their hair. 

D&AD New Blood

Over the summer on the 4th of July 2013, I decided to go and visit the D&AD New Blood exhibition which was on for two days (3rd & 4th of July 2013) in Old Spitalfields Market. The Exhibition held place to over 70 different courses showing the UK's newest graduating talent from 49 different universities. The different courses shown included: Graphic & Multimedia Design, Graphic Communication, Creative Advertising, Creative & Cultural Industries Contemporary Arts Practice, Digital Media, Motion Graphics & Animation, Illustration & Animation, Brand Design, 3D Digital Design, Photography, and many more. 

I didn't intentionally go to look at photography courses at New Blood because I didn't know they would have any photography courses being shown because it was mainly Graphic design, illustration, motion design and media courses being shown. However when walking around the exhibition I noticed that there was one stall which was Middlesex University and they were showing off some of their BA(Hons) Photography students work. 


These were two students work that I like the most:      

On the right is a photograph taken by a student called William Lakin who goes to Middlesex university and has a tutor called Paul Duke. This was a Photograph he entered for a competition called Dazed & Confused and was one of the winners. Dazed & Confused is a magazine and they wanted Students to create their own portrait of contemporary youth. Their description of the competition: "A single image that will be just as relevant in a decade. An image that captures this period of time, with determination and attitude. They had to Capture reality, fantasy, people with interesting stories, people with great ideas. Something real. Avoid the clichés. Seize the chance to define the visual language of your world in 2012/13." 

The one on the left was taken by another student called Michelle Amosu who also got an award for this and another portrait she did for the dazed and confused competition. I chose this though because I was looking on her website and I really like her portfolio project which this photo was part of called 'Stammplatz'.  She says in the description of this project that she has photographed fellow residents, family and friends in their own outdoor personal spaces.A word in German meaning 'regular place' or 'native space', epitomises my fascination with 'home'. It is 'Stammplatz'. I really love the simplicity and thought and meaning of this project and could help me when I start to take my documentary photography. 

Overall I really liked this exhibition and how it was arranged out because of how each university had there own booth. This really helped when jotting down notes, asking questions and taking loads of photographs of different work from different booths and I would know which universities they are from. I also really loved how creative different Universities were with their small booths because they all had different arrangements in their booths and they were all unique.

Still Life: Anna Atkins Inspired Cyanotypes

 Anna Atkins was an english 19th century english photographer. She was one of the first people to publish a book illustrated with photographic images and is sometimes known as one of the first women to create a photograph. Atkins father was a scientist who introduced her to science and plant biology.  Atkins received an unusually scientific education for a woman of her time and started to study plant botany which became a big interest of hers. I feel that this played a big part in the fact that Atkins really enjoyed and was good at creating interesting cyanotypes. In 1842 Atkins was introduced to cyanotype photography by the inventor and a good friend of hers called Sir John Herschel. Atkins then experimented a lot over the year and in 1843 she self-published her cyanotypes in the first instalment of her photographs of british algae.

My Anna Atkins inspired cyanotypes:

AS-A2 Project: Review

Throughout this As-A2 project I feel that it has helped me improved my analysis and also my time management because I feel that after getting into a routine of creating an analysis each lesson or every two lessons I have learnt to complete the work straight away because I know that the lesson or week after I will be doing a looking at a new artist. I have really enjoyed the practical side of the project and I feel that being able to have a practical lesson before every analysis lesson has helped me when writing up my analysis because I can compare and wright about my work in my analysis. Also I feel that doing handmade and digital work for certain artists has help improve my analysis because it helps me understand the techniques or materials the artist had to use. I really enjoyed being able to do both handmade and digital because If I didn't enjoy one I would of enjoyed the other and been able to wright about this and add it too my analysis. I really liked all the pathways chosen for this project but feel that my strongest pathway I think i will do best in is documentary because I have really liked the work of Lin Osborn and other photographers I have looked at such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Guy Tillim and Ed Thompson. I also really liked the exhibition at the photographers gallery.

Landscape Photography: Norm Magnusson

Norm Magnusson (born March 20, 1960) is a New York-based painter and sculpture. Magnusson is also a political activist and the founder of the 1991 'art movement funism'. Norm Magnusson is a photographer who is very enthusiastic and enjoys showing/communicating messages through his work normally to do with social or political themes. One of Magnusson's most well known projects is called '1-75' where he made historical marker signs with social and political content on and placed them in about fifty rest stops on the interstate-75 highway. For this project Norm Magnusson said "My goal for this project was not to incite, but to inspire thought amongst those who travel on this route".

Norm Magnusson then created a project in 2009 called 'Decorating Nature' where he has so far created one hundred pieces of artwork of which he painted patterns and used different colours onto different types of nature such as leaves, trees, rocks, pine cones, acorns etc. Magnusson said that for this project he created it to have some fun and that he strives to create art that is both beautiful and meaningful, art that is aesthetically and intellectually accessible and deals with important themes.

These are the best two photographs I liked from Norm Magnusson's portfolio called 'Decorating Nature' and are the two that inspired me when creating my own (photos down below). I really like the left one because I love the colours used and how he has painted the whole leaf with these straight lines repeating the blocks of colour. I also really like how Magnusson has thought about the placement of the leaf and instead of maybe putting it in the tree the leaf came from, he has put the leaf on the ground with the dirty dried up brown leaves. I feel that this gives a good effect of contrast and makes the painted leaf stand out more from the dull brown leaves. I also really like this photograph on the left because it shows how well Magnusson has decorated the nature an transformed an everyday dull tree leaf into this bright colourful piece of artwork. I chose this photograph on the right and really like it because its very different to the first one on the left. I feel its really different because of how instead of painting a healthy leaf and putting it next too dead leaves magnusson has painted a dead leaf and placed it with a healthy green plant. In this photograph instead of using bright colourful contrasting colours to make the leaf stand out more Magnusson has used two simple colours (green and white). I really like how Magnusson has also just painted with these colours on one side of the leaf because it shows how the leaf has been transformed from a boring brown dead leaf into a bright green leaf with a spotty white pattern.   

Compared to two photographs of my inspired leaf paintings:

Norm Magnusson: Handmade Experiments

Julie Cockburn: Handmade Experiments

These are my three Julie Cockburn inspired handmade experiments. For these three experiments I used vintage photographs of the internet and then used fine liner, red board marker and a scalpel to try to create my own work in the style of Julie Cockburn. I first started of with creating the image on the right by printing of three of the vintage 60's portrait of the man and used a scalpel to cut long rounded rectangular shapes out of two of the printed photographs and then stuck the pieces onto the photo in a different order. I chose this technique because I really like how it makes the face of the person almost like a puzzle because of how your brain tries to put the photo back together by shuffling the pieces around in your head to try to see what the photo of the person originally looked like. I feel that I could of improved this experiment by using a much sharper scalpel or scissors to be able to but the paper neater. I then also did an experiment using a red board marker and a photograph of a child. I wanted to try this simple technique that Cockburn uses because I really like how it adds a lot of fun and playfulness too a photograph. Even though I do like this experiment a lot, I feel I could've used a more dull photograph with a person who looks maybe quite sad or unhappy because this would've given a better effect like Cockburn's work using this technique. I then did a third piece using a fine liner because I really liked Cockburn's piece she did called 'Blue Tattoo' (Below: Left). Cockburn used stitching to create hers but instead I used a fine liner. I feel that My 'Blue Tattoo' experiment is one of my better pieces because I feel that it looks the neatest of the three and I really like the detailed different patterns and lines I drew on the photograph. I feel that if I wanted to do more work like Cockburn's I feel that I could experiment more with fine liner and also try to experiment with stitching onto a photograph and maybe make my own vintage photographs.    

These are the three images that I was most inspired by:

Julie Cockburn: Digital Experiments

This is my first digital Julie Cockburn experiment that I created in photoshop. I used a colour photograph of Albert Einstein that I found online and used photoshop to digitally manipulate the photograph in the style of Cockburn's work. I used the triangle shape in photoshop and created a clipping mask so that I could copy and paste parts of Einsteins face in the triangular shape onto the original photograph. After taking different parts of Einsteins face, I then Shuffled the pieces up and arranged them in random places on top of the original photograph to create this Julie Cockburn inspired piece. I do like this experiment but I feel that I could've improved this by Arranging the triangles so that they created a bigger shape on top of Einsteins face. I really like this piece by Cockburn because of how its much neater (below).  

My Second Experiment:

This is my second digital experiment I tried on photoshop. For this piece of work I wanted to create my own style and add my own sort of twist to Julie Cockburn's work. I first found another colour 60's portrait online and then started to experiment on photoshop. I still when with the use of the clipping mask technique but this time I used hexagons and also added a colour filter to the shape every time I added it on to the original image. I really like this style that Ive done and feel that if I did more work like Cockburn's I would definitely try this again.

Geraldine Georges: Digital Experiments

This was my first inspired Geraldine George's experiment using a photograph of a model found on the internet:

These are some screenshots I took whilst creating my first inspired piece:

My second inspired using my own taken photograph:

Experimenting with gradient background colours just like in some of Geraldine Georges work:

Fashion Photography: Geraldine Georges

Geraldine Georges is a young belgian illustrator/ photographer and graphic designer that uses a mixture of handmade and digital techniques using a blend of illustration and photography to create imaginative pieces of abstract work. Georges uses mainly photographs of females in her work and uses her fashion influences to cut up the photograph and add her own style onto the photograph extending the female model. She uses handmade and digital elements in her work but tries to keep her fashion collages simple and tries not to include to much photoshop effects. 

After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels Géraldine worked as a graphic designer in various advertising agencies for 7 years. Towards the end of 2006, she started to work as a freelance illustrator. However Georges was not leaving behind the graphic design world but was able to see & bring some graphic design elements into her illustrations. Through her graphic design year and as a freelancer Georges did alot of work for many companies such as loreal, schweppes, fiesta. Georges has also has had lots of press such as being in magazines such as 'I heart Art', 'A Conceptual Magazine', 'Victoire' etc, and also had her work shown in the 'New York Times' in 2008 for an article called 'New Years Cocktail'. 

Images found on Georges Website.

I really like Geraldine Georges work because of how neat and modern her fashion collages are and how she's incorporated/ blended the use of handmade and digital. I also really like how Georges cuts of parts of the photograph of the model and adds her own extension to the women which really shows her imagination and also could show her emotion at the time when creating it because all of her work is different in what lines, shapes and other techniques/ materials she uses.

This is some of Georges work from her portfolio which I really like and got inspirations from when creating my own:

Exhibition review: Coulsdon College Visual Arts Exhibition

The A2 classes coursework and exam pieces have just been finished displayed and are being exhibited in three rooms in the collage. The visual arts exhibition consist of the four creative art subjects; Graphic Design, Photography, Textiles and Fine art. When looking around the exhibition I really liked the range and different styles of work that people had created. I feel that looking at all of the A2 students work it has really inspired me and shown me how much work and effort I need to dedicate and put in into the A2 year ahead of me. The exhibition also showed me the wide range of experiments I can try in the A2 year.   

There was a lot of pieces of artwork from each subject that I really liked in the exhibition but I feel that if I had to pick my favourite piece from all the artwork I feel that this is one of my favourites (below). This is a Fine art exam piece by a student called Melissa Wear. She also had three other painted portrait pieces in the same style as this painting. I like this one best from the four she had submitted because of how she uses the plastic sheet in front of another canvas that she had painted on. I really like the use of the two layers and how she has painted on the glass with the different coloured brush strokes style technique which she has also used in her other portraits. 

When looking around the photo exhibition I really like the range of different techniques used by students. Some techniques used by the A2 students have inspired me to test and experiment with these techniques in my A2 year. I especially liked this technique of painting a photograph onto stones using liquid emulsion used by a student and feel that I will be defiantly experimenting with this in my A2 year. Also apart from looking at peoples final pieces I really liked looking at their sketchbooks that they have done to show their development throughout different units because it shows the work load and effort I should be putting in to my A2 year and how I can improve from AS to be able to create really good final pieces and sketchbooks to get higher grades for my work.     

Inspired Experiments: Jan Von Holleben

Today in lesson we created our own Jan Von Holleben inspired experiments. Jan Von holleben is a german photographer who is well known for created artwork making childhood dreams come true. I go more in-depth into Holleben's work in my analysis further down my blog. Link to blogpost: Jan Von Holleben Analysis. The lesson before we created mind maps and started to plan our ideas as a group of what we would include in our artwork. Seeing as it was a students birthday in the class (Shaniece), we decided to go with the theme of birthdays. When thinking of ideas for birthdays we all really liked they idea of a big birthday cake which we could burst out of whilst Shaniece was holding a balloon and floating into the air. We then started to think of what materials we would use and felt that the birthday cake wouldn't look that good because we didn't  have loads of fabric and paper. Once ruling out the birthday cake idea we then branched of from the balloon idea and started brainstorming for how we could add to it and improve it. We then thought to have a montage of different ways to float and fly and we would each have a role/character in the artwork. 

    This is two photographs (top) of us preparing all the props and materials we needed for the characters we were going to be in the artwork. After are mind maps and seeing what materials we had and could bring in we decided to have four characters; Someone holding a balloon, someone with rocket boots, someone with angel wings and someone in a bubble. Materials we used were, Blue fabric for the sky, cotton wool for clouds, see-through plastic bags for the bubble, paper for rocket boots, balloons and string for Shaniece's character and paper for angle wings. 

These photographs above are of me laying out the fabric to show sky and also placing down cotton wool for the clouds. When laying out the fabric we felt that it would look to crowded to fit all four of us on so we decided to take a montage of photographs of us in two groups with two or three characters on the fabric. This photograph below was a photograph taken buy the other group who asked us to pose like this. I like how shaniece is placed with the balloons but don't like how the bubble I am in isn't circular enough so later on we then created another photograph for this composition.

These photographs below are of the second shoot we did using the balloons, rocket shoes and the angel. I felt this was are best shoot because of the big amount of bright contrasting colours that were used. In the first shoot me and shaniece were both wearing dark dull colours and it looked much more dark and not as fun and as colourful like Holleben's work.     

This is the second photo shoot with the bubble. I chose to not be in the bubble and let Dee-Kay be the character because I wanted to see how circular the bubble was because when I was underneath the plastic I couldn't see the shape of the bubble. I do feel this photograph is better other than the first shot because of how the balloon was changed for the angle wings and the clouds look much better. Overall my personal opinion was that I didn't really like the bubble character and we could've of improved it by maybe using a different material or changing the bubble for a different flying method. Also I like the photo on the left that I took because Shaniece is smiling and it shows that we had fun whilst doing these experiments and it gives of a fun, exciting, childlike and happy feel to our inspired experiments just like Holleben's work because of how the child models look really engaged and happy. 

Exhibition review: Photographers Gallery - Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2013

Over the half term on the 31st of May, I went to the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize Exhibition at the Photographers gallery in London. The Prize has been running each year since 1996 and was created by the Photographers' Gallery with the intention of promoting the finest contemporary photography. Between 1997 and 2004, the prize was known as the Citigroup Photography Prize. Every year the photographers gallery and other judges give a prize of £30,000 (funded by a german marketing company called Deutsche Borse) to a photographer who has made the most significant contribution to the photographic medium in Europe during the past year. The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013 is generously supported by Deutsche Börse Group and media partner The Telegraph. The annual photography prize has been been described as "the biggest of its kind in photography in Europe" and "the most prestigious".

The Prize the year is on until the 30th of June 2013 and was open to the public on the 18th of April 2013. The artwork is being shown on the two top floors of gallery and this years finalists are Broomberg & Chanarin, Mishka Henner, Chris Killip, and Cristina De Middel. The winner of the £30,000 Prize will be announced on Monday 10 June. The panel of judges this year are; Joan Fontcuberta - artist, Andrea Holzherr - Exhibition Manager and art critic, Karol Hordziej - Artistic Director, Anne-Marie Beckmann - curator of the Deutsche Borse Art Collection, Brett Rogers, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery and is the non-voting Chair.

Chris Killip's work:

Broomberg & Chanarin's work: 

Mishka Henner's work: 

Cristina De Middel's work:

Portrait Photography: Julie Cockburn

Julie Cockburn is an artist who lives and is based in the uk. Cockburn work has been in many different exhibitions and her work is included and shown in many collections world wide in the UK, Europe and the United States. Cockburns work involves of finding old 1950's portrait photographs and sort of modernises them and brings them back to life so there is a link between them the past and present in her work. Cockburn uses lots of different skills, techniques and materials to be able to manipulate the faces of these people in the photographs. 

Cockburn uses a lot of found photographs of women in her work I feel to try and contend against lots of rules and stereotypes of women back in the 1950's a before of she's tried to show how society and women have changed. Back in the 1950's were supposed to fulfil certain roles, such as a caring mother, a homemaker, cleaner and an obedient wife. Nowadays women are free and can do many things that men can do know with no rules against them. I feel that this manipulated portraits such as this one at the top called Blue Tattoo shows how if a women wants to now she can get as many tattoos as she likes, and I think its good that you can still see through the embroidering because it shows how women would've had to been presentable back in the 1950's.

Cockburn also uses techniques like cutting and collaging to be able to make these unique mysterious portraits. I think these portraits are quite intriguing and mysterious because of how on some Julie Cockburn has completely taken apart and manipulated the people faces in the images. When the images are completely manipulated and hard to see it is hard to figure out the persons identity and any information about them or why Cockburn has done this to there face. I feel that Cockburn does this on purpose by using found photographs of people years ago instead of taking her own photographs of people and/or celebrities so that people think more about why Cockburn could of done a certain techniques/manipulation to a particular persons face. Especially when I was looking at these two collage type photograph down below it made me think more about the photograph and try to look more into detail of the meaning. It also reminded me of a sort of puzzle that I could try to solve in my head to unmask the persons identity. Cockburn said herself at the Photographers gallery interview "By collaging a found image with embroidery thread, plasticine, sticky back plastic or tacky found objects it becomes a new image with a new history to unfurl and, by association, a new memory".

Portrait Photography: Jan Van Holleben

On the left is a photograph of a german photographer called Jan Von Holleben. Holleben was born in 1977 in Cologne and was brought up in the southern German countryside where he lived most of his childhood in a small community of family and friends and was inspired mainly from his parents who helped him develop his photographic skills. At the age of 13 was when Holleben followed his father’s photographic career by picking up a camera and experimenting with all sorts of "magical tricks". After pursuing a career in teaching disabled children, Holleben then moved to London to follow his career as a photographer and got a degree in the history of photography at 'The Surrey Institute of Art an Design'. Now Jan Von Holleben's work is being exhibited and published worldwide.

Jan Von Holleben has a massive portfolio of work, but after looking through his website I was really 

inspired and amazed by the portfolio called dreams of flying which consist of making children's dreams come true through the use of props and and having a creative imagination just like Holleben's. Holleben says that he always tries to bring influences from his parents and his childhood into his work (a Child therapist and cinematographer). Holleben uses his own past experiences, childhood memories and knowledge gained from his parents and earlier career to create these inspiring, happy, fun, imaginative and creative photographs. Holleben describes his own work as being "Direct, natural, playful, considered, honest, improvised, educational, fun, childish yet totally serious by approach!". I really like how he describes his work as being childish, yet in a serious approach, which shows that he is having fun and trying to get a creative childish approach when creating his work but is also trying to give a message through his work to get everyone who sees his work to be able to remember their happy chilhood memories or imagine their childhood dreams. When Kanye West, the world famous American recording artist, record producer, film director and fashion designer saw Holleben's work he posted a blog about it on his website saying: "Jan von Holleben makes dreams come true!".

When creating these photographs Holleben tries to bring people back into the reality of photography because he feel that now in the 21st century too many people rely on the use of photoshop and digital manipulation. In his bio he says that he learnt a lot of magical tricks from him father too develop and use in his photography. I really like the fact that he dosent want to digitally edit his photographs because I feel that his photos of these children are suppose to show dreams and turn them into reality. I feel that if Holleben did use photoshop or other softwares and digitally placed photographs of children in a location or the sky, I  think that they wouldnt look as intriguing and as visually exciting as they are now because everyone would know they are not real. Holleben says in many interview and statements that he wants to be able to make these look like reality to show childhood 'dreams of flying' using these 'magical tricks' that he has learnt from his father. 

After researching the makings of 'dreams of flying' I found a video on how these pictures are made and found that lots of pre planning and setup is involved in creating these on floor arial photographs. A big factor I noticed when watching these videos was that the kids were very happy running around and in the photographs. Holleben tried to interact and have fun with the kids throughout the photoshoot and also showed them himself how he would like them to pose and what emotions they need to show for different scenes from childhood books and shows. Holleben used lots of props in the photographs to set the scenes and visual manipulation (Holleben's 'Magical Tricks') by making sure the positions of the children look realistic like they are flying through the air, eventhough we the audience know that the children are just lying on the floor and the camera is taking a photo of them from above. 

Top Left: PeterPan & Tinkerbell, Bottom Left: The King Kong, Top Right: Tarzan & Jan, Bottom Right: The Superman.

Documentary Photography: Lin Osborn

Lin Osborn was awarded a scholarship to Harrow School of Art and went on to study at Surrey Institute of Art and Design, graduating in 2001 with a BA Hons in Fine Art. Then attending Winchester School of Art where she became increasingly interested in photography, and has since been awarded an Associateship by the Royal Photographic Society.

Lin Osborn uses this tile composition effect and is a style that she uses for all her pieces of artwork. However Osborn uses this tile composition differently for her pieces of work, for some pieces of work she will focus on using the colours in the photographs for her composition of the tiles just like her most well known piece called rainbow and in others will focus on just using different photographs of an object, in a specific place or a certain time of year. 

I really like this tile effect because even though Osborn takes a lot of photographs, they are very detailed close up photographs. I feel that if these photographs were much further away photographs, like landscapes I feel that this technique wouldn't work as well because the smaller the photographs are the less your eyes get drawn to them and the less your eyes focus on them. I also feel that the use of a lot of photographs works well  for Osborn's work because not only does it give a style to her work it also makes her work better because I feel that If these photographs were by themselves I think they wouldn't be good enough and look as intriguing and as creative as her work now. I have also found from looking at Osborn's work and when doing analysis's I feel that when photographers use less photographs or even one by itself  you start to look more in to detail and how the photographer or artist has created the photograph using light and exposure etc. However for Osborn's work you look more at the overall piece and then look a little bit more into detail but can only look so far to see colours, outlines and maybe some text or significant objects or parts or buildings because of the size or quality of the photographs. This is also said in her statement on her website: "By repeating a series of images the artist is able to change the original isolated context. ‘En masse' the images have a power and beauty. 

This photo is one her most well known pieces of work costing £875 for the full scale piece (70x100cm) or £50 for a (40x50cm) scale print. This piece of artwork consists of close up detailed photographs of different coloured packaging and foods focusing on text, images on packaging and logos. 

Lin Osborn also has many other pieces of artwork that you can by and look at on her website. Osborn has many different variety of photographs in different countries, of different objects, different packaging and also of nature throughout different seasons.

When looking through Lin Osborn's portfolio on her website I found that she took lots of photographs of nature and I was inspired by this and wanted to take the same approach to create my inspired work around the theme of nature. When taking my photographs I found that in my garden I had a variety of different coloured flowers. So after taking a bunch of different photographs I then tried to create the same style just like Lin Osborn's other piece called rainbow. I also used photo filters and adjusted the colour balance on the photographs to bring out the bright flower colours. Overall I really like my piece and had fun creating it and feel that I will possibly use this tile effect in future projects when presenting my work. 

My Inspired Artwork: