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Gemma's photography is primarily a form to document and find images to turn into giant painted postcards and other artworks. This is not to say that she doesn't embrace different types of photography nor innovation however. Currently using a small compact camera (a Casio EX-Z100), she hopes one day to have a Digital SLR but is content for now to create great photos with what she has and push what her compact camera can do. Her creative projects in photography tend to revolve about the idea of creating a truthful representation of a place through photography rather than subverting the falseness of the postcard image. Below she talks more about her photographic projects. |
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Perambulation - Oct 2009 to Oct 2010 Her first creative photo based project and attempt to show the truth in a place was based in her local area. The project involved taking a walk everyday and taking photos along the way of whatever interested her or seemed to sum up the location or the experience of that days walk, then posting only one of them, whichever was in her opinion the most interesting or best summed up the day. The constant practice meant that her photography improved through embracing more landscape and macro photography. It also informed on her subsequent photography in other locations, helping to find her photographic eye and a personally truthful representation of places such as Southwold, which she visited in August 2010. While creating a personal truth about her local area and encouraging adventure and exploration, it was not however an objective truth. She tended to stick to areas of natural beauty and places she found visually interesting rather than all of her local area. She also got hung up on taking a photo a day even when she could not take her walk locally. As such images of beaches, canals and the outskirts of Nottingham have snuck into the project. The sheer quantity of photographs taken also meant that a lot of the time more than one photo was good enough to be included. In response to this she started making supplementary albums on flickr for these images, entitled Perambulation:Winter, Perambulation:Spring, Perambulation:Summer and Perambulation: Autumn. This project was also a big topic to talk about on her blog, click here to find out more. |
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Welcome to Simons Wood - Nov 2010 to Nov 2011 By the end of the Perambulation project, Gemma wanted to continue to explore finding the truth of a place. While a good start, in that it had found a personal truth behind a place as well as improving her photographic skills, she still felt that the attempt to find an objective truth was one worth making. As a result she set herself a number of rules to more tightly define the new project. 1. As from the previous project, there will be no post production editing of the photographs. With the exception of cropping and resizing for the internet. The view chosen was one she knew very well and had photographed before. It was also important that it was an interesting view for her. The title of the project comes from the area she is photographing. |
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