Constructed landscapes
Danfa Talmor associates taking landscape pictures with leaving home and taking a piece of where she was with her, it doesn't matter what it is, it could be anything. Her work has been featured in various private and public collections, she has completed a BA fine art at goldsmiths (2001) and completed an MA fine art photography at the royal collage of art (2004).
Slides
In the lesson with Dafna Talmor we started editing and playing with slides, we could do pretty much whatever we wanted them from putting ink on them to scratching them, I think that what I did was fairly interesting and that I put a lot of effort into it. In most of them I defaced them to the point that you can still see what the picture is but there is something wrong with it.
in this picture I started of with a tool that looked kind of like a paintbrush but with metal bristles, and what I did was a I just started scratching at the dog thinking that it would scratch the dog off completely however, what happened was the dog just started to go a dark inky blue colour that covered the whole dog not only that but it also defaced the dog instead of completely scratching it off and it created a really cool looking effect and I think that it could be described as creepy or slightly ghostly, this is because of the fact that the whole picture looks normal then the dog has this dark blacked out look to it and I think that is the main thing that adds to the atmosphere of the picture.
in this picture you can see that the is a place that is cut out and you know this for two reasons 1: obviously because the picture docent go with this big white shape 2: if it was colouring over the top then it would be black instead. The object that I cut out was a shed and what I did was I cut it out really roughly and obviously it is really small so you can see all the little marks on the slide when it is on the projector, and I think that is what I was trying to achieve with this image.
as you can see this slide was just a normal looking village place, it looks like it was taken a while ago due to the look of the buildings and the car, but what I did to the image was I saw the tree at the top of the picture and I thought about sometimes you see fruits that are on trees so I drew little blobs of ink on the tree to make it look like fruit or some sort of flower and I don't think I really made it look like that but I do really like the way that the ink looks on top of the normal picture and the same thing happened with the big one in the top right hand corner.
this picture was by far the most experimental of them all, this is because I just wanted to see how it would look with different colours and wether it would look strange or like a normal picture however the final outcome when I went to look at it on the projector was neither, it wasn't that strange that it wasn't ordinary but it wasn't so normal that you wouldn't have a closer look, what it looked like was what it was, it is really hard to explain what I mean but basically what it looked like was literally pen marks on top of the original picture, you could tell because you could see the picture in the gaps of the ink, if you look at the bottom right had corner I think that if all of the inks were as strong and dark as that blue I think that it would have made it a bit more out of the ordinary, sir think the one thing that could have made this better is stronger colours and to fill in all the gaps.
this image is the opposite of the one with the the cut out shed, because you can either make big dark black blotches or you can make the opposite with big white blotches, the black blotches are created using anything that could potentially block light, like paint or glue, of you use something that light can only slightly travel through, it won't be completely blacked out like the one o the slide above but it will be a faded black colour.