Jim Goldberg

Main inspiration, and my finishing works are very similar 

statements

These are some statements i can up with to originally put on the images
- i was not taught percentages/ tax's/ gst's in school
- i was not taught anything about black history
- i was not taught anything about the genocide in Papua New Guinea
- i was not taught to be creative
- i was taught how to draw and paint but not how to use photoshop
- i think there isn't enough one-on-one time in school, and i believe its because there are too many students in classes
- i didn't learn anything about the nazi, till i watched Schindler's List
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Steve and i had a talk about the previous image i made, and these points we agree on. 1. too much white space. 2. the language was good. 3. it was heading in the right direction. 4. they would look better in black and white So to solve the white space problem, i made the scanned images bigger, changed them to black and white.
So then i tried to see what kind of pen works better and were to place the writing. I like writing on the image but so much arrowing the people or objects out and writing who they are etc. so i decided that a little story that my family never talks about, a part of my family history may be better, so that it can also relate to the image.

Because i wasnt taught about black american history in school and i am very interested in it, i decided to take some old photos and put captions under then that will make the viewer think about black american history and whats happening in a america at the moment. Some of these captions were inspired by some images on instagram under the hashtag police brutality.

two weeks flew by...

Before this work was produced, Steve and i had a conversation about what my works will be about and how i was going to produce this, he gave my the artist  Lorna simpson to get inspired by, in the conversation we talked about not being taught what i want to know, which led to Lorna Simpson, who takes photographs of herself, she covers her face or captures everything below her chin the he said to take some photos of me sitting on a chair facing the camera only neck down. I took this mini task and instead of using myself, i got some images of my aunty because i really don't like seeing myself in pictures even selfie's arn't a thing for me LOL any who they weren't successful at all. Then a light bulb popped up above my head and i realised i could use old photos of me and my family members. This one of the works i started off with before i started scanning the old photos, i scanned part of my face and all of my hair and it came out very interesting so i decided to use it. I thought writing on this with a regular pen i used a twink pen.

tacita dean

i like the use of black and white, also the little white text that you can barely read

hmmm

Lorna Simpson

The postition of the images and the captions were interesting. and the relationship between the white oval covering the face with the vowels and the caption creates some tention

I like the amount of images and that its black and white. The boarders are perfect

KwanHo Shin

I like the way this artist has distorted everything in the portrait but you can still tell it is a face

I think these types of work id be doing in Frances' class

The kind of work i want to make .......

Erik Revelo

These works were interesting to me because they are powerfull political images that have messages and stories behind them

Double exposure

Another tutorial that could help me with editing photos

Shameless Maya from Instagram

These are a couple of the photos from her instagram that she took at a photoshoot with her cousin

These images are cool ! i really like the black background of the first two images. I works with flour in a project before but i didnt think about coloured flour or powder or it just being put on the body. Im thinking about doing an experiment like this 

Some Photoshop techniques that could come in handy for editing :)
This lady is also an artist and has interesting photo-shoots that i love

First Idea's

First pictures that i found very interesting, some of these images inspired my recent work

Im really interested in over layering of colours on the black and grey images