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‘We have all found something beautiful or intruiging by chance’ -anna gerber
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Introduction Unexpected outcomes is a project exploring the
We can explore chance by being creative with the
uninterntional and chance outcomes that film photography
negative itself before development by investigating the
can offer. The project constisted of many different
chemical reactions that occur when the film reacts with
experiments and in total ninteen films were used in order
heat and substances. Of course you choose the effect
to collate a substansial amount of material and investigate different and unexpect outcomes which one may come
which is applied and the time it is left to effect the negative but inevitably you are out of the actual process. You
across when photographing in such a mindset.
cannot control how the chemical will react and effect
This project aimed to explored and highlight the ways in
negative will react differently. You are unaware of what has
which chance can effect a process in a benefical way.
happened to the film until it is developed.
It aims to open up our minds to something fresh, new and creative. Something we are not use to, photographs which may not be in focous, may not be the colour we are expecting to see or may look so damaged that some may disregard and ignor. Rather than ignoring and disregaring these images this project aimed to embrace them and show that sometimes different is good. The unpredictability and unexpected outcomes offered when we work in such a way as to take ourselves out of a process can offer much more dynamic and interesting
the negative as each frame and each colour on the
Take yourself out of the process, stop thinking too much about what you are taking a picture of, just shoot the multiple exposures and endless panoramic, see what happens. Inevitably you do control the process to some extent but by not thinking too much about the composure of the image can open up what you can achieve, it explores possibilities of the unexpected and welcomes chance, mistakes and accidents. This can end up working to your advantage, answers and potential can be found in
results than if we were to control that process.
something you didn’t mean to create.
If we choose to use a film camera in a playful and
Often something we initially see as a failure will offer us a
experimental way rather than one frame per shoot we allow and embrace exploration of converging lines within images. We encounter an element of surprise, the unexpected. Unaware of what may happen and what result will come of it, this adventures approach allows you to capture photographs of what isn't actually there. This allows photographs to work much like our memory, melting and converging lines of images together allowing for a tangible image, a moving memory captured in one photograph.
surreal, interesting and alternative answer. By letting go and allowing an uncontrollable method of working it embraces the chance of failure and an unexpected outcome. Rather than seeking perfection and an ideal answer it allows chance and the possibilities of something unplanned to work to your advantage and offer a alternative answer. The unexpected can sometimes be the most interesting, embrace the unknown welcome misstakes.
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‘You learn something new because you see something new ... and, by the way, I am not fixated on making something new. I just love the journey of learning and exploring.’ -april greiman
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‘When something malfuncations, it doesn’t necessarily mean that something is working against it, but rather that something is working in tandem with it to maxisize it’s unforeseen potential.’ -anna gerber
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‘An accident conjoures up the chance principle in which all things, situations, ideas are present simultaneously and just ‘happen’ to juxtapose in an unusual or different way that you would have expected.’ -april greiman
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‘Error and it’s emotions. On the brink of error is a condition of fear. In the midst of error is a state of folly and defeat. Realizing you’ve made an error brings shame and remorse. Or does it?’ -anne carson
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‘No matter how hard we try to control the creative process, it is inevitable that we encounter an element of unpredictability something unexpected.’ -april greiman
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‘The photograph becomes ‘surprising’ when we do not know why it has been taken’
-roland barthes
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key process how it is done