Day One: During the first day of the workshop, we worked on creating designs for our screens. To keep within the timeframe and make it easier to work in pairs (as we were sharing A1 screens between two people), we were allocated only four layers per person. I decided to work with four images that […]

One of the first hanging sculptures found in history amongst Nordic, Germanic and Slavic cultures is called Himmeli, which were traditionally made of natural fibres like straw by the Finnish. The original purpose of these mobiles was to be hung above the dining table and the Finnish believed that the larger the

Below are my notes from the mounting workshop: Trimming the print doesn’t have to be precise if the board is oversized. Be careful with A3/A1. The blade has to stay vertical when cutting. Switch on at the wall, and wipe down rollers on the mounting machine. The red switch on top is an emergency switch. [&hell

After these past two photoshoots, I have created three new pages for my zine using two images from these recent ones and an image from the first photoshoot I did for this project. I selected this image from the first studio photoshoot because I felt it portrayed the right emotional tone for the short section [&

(fig.1) untitled by Paris Naik-Neenan In figure one, my best image from the photoshoot (06-05-21), a woman is holding up her clenched hands in a manner that strongly suggests frustration while her face is surrounded by her hair, evoking a suffocating mood. I like this image best because it portrays my mother’

At the start of this photoshoot, I intended to capture water spraying from the model’s mouth and use the Speedlight I was using to freeze the droplets in time. Still, my model struggled to spit out the water to prevent the photoshoot from ending without any useable images. I had to improvise how to demonstrat

(fig.1) untitled by Paris Naik-Neenan In figure one, the subject leans back with their arms behind their back, facing toward the sky, which demonstrates a state of tension within the subject, symbolising my mother’s state of mind of being contorted, twisted and pulled in one direction while seeking to head in