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‘We have all found something beautiful or intruiging by chance’
-anna gerber
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Unexpected outcomes is a project exploring the unintentional and chance outcomes that film photography can offer. In order to unleash the possibilities one must take themselves out of the process, stop focussing on composure and actual outcome and allow the camera to work in a playful experimental way. The project consisted of many different experiments. In total twenty films were used which allowed me to collate a substantial amount of material and investigate many different and unexpected outcomes one may come across when photographing in such a mindset. This project aimed to explore and highlight the ways in which chance can effect a process in a beneficial way. It aims to open up our minds to something fresh, new and creative and show the viewer something they are not use to. This project consisted of photographs created from the process of chance which lead to outcomes of an unexpected nature. This project aimed to embrace all different outcomes regardless of how in focus or damaged they were. I wanted to show that through unpredictability and the unexpected, taking ourselves out of a process can offer more dynamic, interesting and alternative results rather than constantly trying to control the process. Rather than planning something let the possibilities of chance work to your advantage, embrace the unknown welcome mistakes.
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If we choose to use a film camera in a playful and experimental way, rather than one frame per exposure, we can explore many different 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 adventurous 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 and a moving memory captured in one photograph. We can explore chance by being creative with the negative itself before development, by investigating the chemical reactions that occur when the film reacts with different types of substances and heat. Of course, you choose the effect which is applied, and the time it is left to effect the negative but inevitably you are out of the actual process as you cannot really control exactly what change takes place. You are unaware of what has happened to the film until it is developed. Take yourself out of the process, stop thinking too much about what you are taking a picture of and just shoot, see what happens. Inevitably you do control the process to some extent but not thinking too much about the composure of the image can expand the range of results achieved. This explores possibilities of the unexpected and welcomes chance, mistakes and accidents which consequently can work to your advantage as potentially answers can be found unintentionally.
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