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Gemma uses photography is primarily to document and find images to turn into giant painted postcards and other artworks. Working for years with a small compact camera (a Casio EX-Z100), she bought a DSLR in 2012 which she now primarily uses. Her artistic 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. |
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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 refine 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. 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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Unnamed project 2012 For 2012 Gemma wanted to take a break from the strict rules and regulations of her previous project. She also felt that she had gone as far as she could go with regards to finding an objective reality or truth of a place. Looking at her photographic journey in Perambulation for inspiration she decided to look at creating a skewed reality of a place though using an unusual angle for every image. Technically still a true reality of a place as she continues not to post edit her photographs and all the images she takes are from positions or angles physically possible for a person, it is however a manipulated one. She aimed to produce a photo a week, however the project was put on hiatus in Summer 2012. |
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