Thursday and Friday we had a photograph workshop. Our first exercise was to take the 'baddest' picture ever. So before i started thinking of what a 'bad' picture is, I asked myself what a 'good' picture is.
For me a 'good' picture is one where the object is somehow in the centre of attention on the picture. Usually in the centre. The picture isn't overexposed (of course this depends) or moved, anyhow the object should cleary be accentuated. So i took some pictures around one who was moved, one overexposed andso forth.
The one below I like best because ususally the object which you want to 'catch' on camera is in the centre of attention. What I tried to do is to annoy the audience with accedentially put a small piece of a building at the lleft bottom and also showing the window frame at the top, slightly tilted. People ask themselves, what is that?? O it's a piece of a builing, why is it in the left corner not centered and why is the window frame on the top visible.
maandag 18 februari 2008
"Post-deconstructivism"
The workshop from Monday and Tuesday was to build an 'informal settlement' outside architecture. When I heard this I was really shocked, a slum!? here?! It turned out to be a really nice workshop because you are undergoing experiences that people in Mumbai face daily.
To give an expample, we where faced with the security guys from FM who didn't allow us to pick certain materials, so it was al about being discreet as possible. An other feeling I personnaly had was that I felt really exposed. When we where dragging al kinds of materials people where looking weird and you could hear them think 'what the hell are they doing??"
We had a group of five people and we had a budget from E 50,- (E 10,- p.p.) to spend on food, the slum, interior etc.. We spend E 25,- on the slum and E 15,- on food. We spent E 20,- for the slum on a crappy Saran plastic material which afterwards was very expensive and there was to little on the roll. We had in mind to cover the airholes with the Saran. The other E 5,- we spent on a good joining material, rope.
To give an expample, we where faced with the security guys from FM who didn't allow us to pick certain materials, so it was al about being discreet as possible. An other feeling I personnaly had was that I felt really exposed. When we where dragging al kinds of materials people where looking weird and you could hear them think 'what the hell are they doing??"
We had a group of five people and we had a budget from E 50,- (E 10,- p.p.) to spend on food, the slum, interior etc.. We spend E 25,- on the slum and E 15,- on food. We spent E 20,- for the slum on a crappy Saran plastic material which afterwards was very expensive and there was to little on the roll. We had in mind to cover the airholes with the Saran. The other E 5,- we spent on a good joining material, rope.
zondag 17 februari 2008
zondag 10 februari 2008
Dharavi
week 1 thoughts
What also was interesting was the notion of how you think of your body. Do you use your legs only to move or do you really live ‘inside’ your legs. Becoming more aware of your lungs, breathing, smelling, touching, experiencing your body. Becoming more aware of the spaces you are in.
1.: The metropolis and Mental life - Georg Simmel (blz. 12) 19032.: The Overexposed City - Paul Virilio (blz. 544) 1984
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