Black and white photography.

Inspired by Corinne Day's 'The Face' we approached portrait photography in a slightly different way, so that the subject was not posing, but answering questions while being photographed. This was to try to make the model to forget they were being photographed, to get more natural, expressive faces. We were using 35mm film cameras, and we used the darkroom to develop the photos ourselves. I enjoyed learning the process of how the film negatives are made into prints.
  I printed nine different photographs of Alex, and arranged them in a similar way to 'The Face' but I think the black background with white in between makes them look more separate, and not so much a whole artwork. I like the contrast in these photos, especially her stripy top, and her face stands out really well from the black background.


I then took the background off by cropping them on the computer, and I think this closeness makes it look more like an artwork, rather than a series of photos.

I really enjoyed working in the photography studio and darkroom, and doing the whole process from start to finish, taking the photos and developing them into an end product.