Girls walking in Jerusalem

HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT WEEK 4 OCT 22-28 2012

Day 22 22 oct 2012 A man in a Russian pub in Jerusalem called “Putin” checks his emails and surfs the web. Unrestricted access to the internet is considered a basic Human Right by the United Nations; this means they think all adults in the world should be able to see the same internet. Internet …

Kits Surfing on Tel Aviv beachfront

HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT WEEK 3 OCT 15-21 2012

  DAY 15 15 OCT 2012 The East Jerusalem school run, children walk through the ancient streets to school before the shops are open. Without an Education economically and socially marginalized adults and children cannot lift themselves out of poverty and participate fully as citizens. The right to an education is a universal and also …

Sreet Art Tel Aviv

HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT WEEK 2 OCT 8-15 2012

  Day 8 8 Oct 2012 A plain clothes security guard takes a call during the “Round Tel Aviv” cycle ride which had 20,000 riders. There are 3 levels of security at events like this: armed semi military police, marked visible security guards and undercover plain clothes security operatives. There is clearly a need for …

Tel Aviv

Human Rights Project Week 1 Oct 1-7 2012

The Idea For this project I wanted to do something instant. Instagram inspired me, it gives me pictures taken right now and that gives these images connection with the present, it makes them about today. I will produce an image a day on the subject of human rights through the whole month of October. I will …

Solid Sign

New Topography

The image above in one of my own and a response to the new topographers and their love of signs, a lot of my pictures were taken in India and are as such a “New Topography of India” rather then a new topography of America or Europe. An exhibition called “New topographic: Photographs of a …

Hill Station India

Landscapes 2

More images I have made from landscape pictures I have taken the picture featured above is from a trip to India it is the view from a hill station in Maharastra. The same picture black and white with filter adjustments to bring out the definition in the hills. The same picture cropped square with a silver film retro filter applied. The final edit with …

Farmers Talking

Landscapes Research

The picture above is titled “Farmers Talking” it is my own picture and a response to the pictures and photographers I have researched below. Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American environmentalist photographer known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park Ansel Adams developed the …

The Queen in Jersey

Binary Pictures 5

More experiments with using multiple versions of the same image to include a feeling within the digital information. The image above has been created using scans of Jersey Bank notes from different eras the image of The Queen is taken from notes from the 60’s, 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s. Taking a strip of windows from Edinburgh here …

Shyness

Playing with symmetry.

To highlight the artificial pseudo sexuality of pole dancing I also ramped up the colours and contrast. This is a picture of a dummy used for the practice of floor work in Brazilian Ju Jitsu. I have turned it on its side and turned up the colours so it appears the dummy is standing fighting itself. This is a …