MA Proposal
AD7801 Photography 1: Establishing Practice
Industrial Aesthetics (name pending)
New Delhi Municipal Council Building, Kuldip Singh
| Photo Credit: MIT Libraries, Rotch Visual Collections, courtesy of Peter Serenyi
For this project, my aim is to capture the atmosphere that large, ominous, bleak, brutalist heavy engineering and Industry imposes upon the beholder; The awe-inspiring and/or bleak oppression of these monoliths. As part of this focus on Brutalist structures I will also be exploring the aesthetics, textures and impact of Industry. This might take the form of shots of…
Rusted metal/ machinery
Pylons
Heavily concreted areas
Foundries/ steelyards
Abandoned spaces/ areas
The monoliths in question will vary in their forms and functionalities wildly. Since I’m not approaching this project from a Documentary viewpoint on Industry or Brutalism, whatever and wherever I find the right atmosphere from an environment will be suitable for the project. I’ve begun my search for this atmosphere by sourcing some potential subjects…
Leckhampton Train Yard
Dowdeswell Reservoir
Gloucester Docks
Shipyards in Avonmouth, Bristol
Brutalist Sites in London, Barbican, NT, Tate Modern
Berkeley Site, Decommissioned Nuclear Plant
The methodology and equipment I use will make up a substantial amount of my own personal development as I aim to use equipment and techniques that will be pretty much entirely new to myself as a creative practitioner. These include but are not limited to…
Shooting Medium Format
120 Film
Digital
Working more extensively with film
Developing my own film
35mm
120
Printing, Mounting and Display
I plan to print my final photos fairly large (A2/1) and mount these upon black backdrops, either fully or on a card mount. If I have the opportunity to display my photos, I will present them in an ambiguously lit environment and just above eye level in order to subtly maximise the imposing nature that the project intends to capture.
Throughout the progression of this project it is my hope that questions around multiple characteristics of the work will come to light, including…
Binary Opposition
Environmentalism
Sustainability
Existentialist Sentimentalities
The core of the project is something that I myself am aiming to be self-critical with as I feel that this atmosphere that I’m setting out to capture, is one that has always been present during my photographic progression as an incredibly indefinable sense of direction and as an aesthetic focus. I plan to use this project to further understand my own influences and drives as an emerging photographer.
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