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i like instagram because it makes my life look like it was shot by rinko kawauchi
username: hayleylouisebrown ;)

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this set of images is more...eerie? very annoyingly i shot 4 rolls of film and out of them this was the best that i could retrieve, i wasn't very happy let me tell you! eventually found out the reason for this, whoever used the camera before me left it on a long exposure setting which i didnt know about. everybody needs a set back in a project as big as this and i'm hoping that this is my main one, definitely can't afford any more disasters. i'm yet to get my feedback on whether this set is salvageable as something i can put towards my SDS work or not. anyway, even if they aren't useable here are the ones i quite like. creepy:

here's my pick of the third set of images from trips home! has it really only been three? i feel like i spend half my life there. i'm so unproductive! anyway, all of these were taken on ISO 400 film as opposed to the 100 i'd been previously using and i think i'm going back to 100, it was better! it's hard to tell with these because i've edited them to sort them out but they were all really flat and dark, not cool.

anyway, aside from my film issues i think i'm improving as i go along.

rinko kawauchi..obviously

very predictable of me now to be looking at rinko kawauchi, i can't help it, they're so beautiful! useful research for photo's of around the home. also my lecturer wants me to perhaps look at photographing my family/relationships a little less literally....i'll give it a go i suppose.

beautiful beautiful images by queen rinko:

collin lafleche

collin lafleche - right after.

this series has been everywhere recently. i absolutely love it. even though it doesn't relate much to my project i'm still putting it in my research file because theres something about it i can't quite forget.

here's how lafleche himself puts the series into words:

"In late 2006 I met a group of high school seniors on their way towards graduation and struggling with the transition from adolescence into adulthood. I photographed them for the year following as they finished high school, had a last summer together, and went off to college. The resulting images—of teenagers running through the streets, kissing on a front porch, watching fireworks over Manhattan—were candid moments of an anxious, uncertain and occasionally tumultuous time. Having recently grown out of adolescence myself, I took an interest in the banal and everyday aspects of their teenage experience, and in their quest for an identity as they struggled with the loss of adolescent abandon. It is found in amongst the awkward, arbitrary, and disjointed moments of social sparring, sexual exploration, conformity, vulnerability, and rebelliousness that shape and define coming of age. It is a monotony that is always apparent yet never directly addressed, showing itself only in the quiet, in-between moments, the moments that are not spectacular or funny or frightening, the moments when these teens are entirely alone with themselves."

amazing. here's some images for you.

http://www.collinlafleche.com/

second set

went home this week for 2 short days and managed to shoot 2 films, and i think i've finally mastered the lightmeter! definitely always using as much natural light as possible from now on. heres my faves:

emma hardy

will start slowly posting some project research here. emma hardy is a photographer that was recommended to me by my lecturer and i think some of her family shots are pretty great and have inspired me a lot, check it:

must try and be more inventive with the photos of my fam, note to self: get them out of the house?