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Global Studio B| Task 1a
Here is the first version for task 1a. I do not have a concept of photographing yet. Here below is my first impression of San Francisco. It is rough but it can be a summary of these three days——What I saw, what has really interested me and what made me concerned.
*Dogpatch Area
In my point of view, Dogpatch is to San Francisco what the Rocks to Sydney. Especially, both of these two places are offshore, located on the edge of the harbor. They are the places where artists, publishers gathering in. What’s more, Dogpatch reminded me of the 798 Area in my city, Beijing. Industry factories, intensive art galleries, and studios.
When I meet a new city, I’d like to visit the ‘Art Area’ which I think is the heart of one city and the place where culture inherited and developed.
‘Just art for a just city’. (Sharp D., Pollock V. & Paddison R. 2005)
* Up and Down
The city I live in China is located in plains, so I was just excited to see the roads have their ups and downs when I arrived in Sydney. But the crazy ups and downs in San Francisco were made me surprised and concerned. I have never seen a city like this. I had a very complicated feeling of these ups an downs: I wished I had had a car when walking on the steep ascents out of breath while I was worried about me, a noob driver, how could I safely control? The question——how often do San Francisco car owners change their brake pads, will there be a lot of dead brake pads in the metal recycle bin... And if it were true, it inspires me of creating a documentary of those brake pads...
‘Read a million books travel a million miles’, Chinese sages once said. It indicated the importance of the practical study. I must say that San Francisco is far away from what I learned from other’s comments. The experience was super personal and irreplaceable. As a photographer, I also think one’s identity plays a vital part in representing a new city. I will go further in the relationship between place and identity.
More images will be coming...
Sharp D., Pollock V. & Paddison R. 2005, ‘Just Art for a Just City: Public Art and Social Inclusion in Urban Regeneration’, Urben Studies, viewed 12 February 2019, <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00420980500106963>.
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I plan to shooting Bay Area around Dogpatch tomorrow afternoon, for the very first version of my task. As for the first version I want to document the landscape what I see. And I will definitely refer to how those ‘Bay Area-based’ photographers represented this city.
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Global Studio A | Task 1c
In Task 1c, I put Vaseline lip balm in my UV lens to approach abstraction during the process of making photographs. Also, I set the lens in manual focus mode.
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Global Studio A | Task 1b
In 1b, I selected 3 typical Tokyo cityscape photos, then enlarged and cut them. The following 30 images were abstract but the real Tokyo views ‘under the magnifying lens’.
[1] Tokyo City View
[2] Asakusa Temple
[3] Shibuya
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Global Studio A | Task 1a
In Task 1a, I have documented Tokyo in an abstract way with my Canon 5D2 by shacking the camera while shooting at night. It was a very interesting experience that exploring the city while creating images.
Asakusa Area
Tokyo Skytree
Oshiage Station
Shibuya Station and Nearby Area
Osaki Station and Nearby Area
Shinjuku Station
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TASK H: An image looks ‘digital’.
This image looks like be edited in Photoshop. Actually, I used a red paper filter and portrayed my friend in the studio.
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