WEEK 6: SUPERVISOR SESSION

Some pictures.

M O O D B O A R D / I N S P I R A T I O N  —  not my own pictures! (mostly by Saul Leiter, Kat Irlin, Elizabeth Hibbard, Eliot Lee Hazel and Elizaveta Porodina)

More pictures (that I took).

And more.

All images are unedited, straight out of the camera, as I actually don’t know what to do with them.

·    robe needs more light

·    dog under table without door frame

·    Saul Leiter's image with the headband is incredible but so difficult to do something similar. It lives from its background.

·    weird pictures are good

·    rather classic with the wet hair

·    rather the umbrella with colors

·    flower in puddle: subversive commentary about isolation/loneliness and how we connect (spiritually, emotionally, physically, metaphysically) with things (META NARRATIVE OF WORK)

·    rather the pic where the palm leaf touches the door handle

·    a picture to shift the mood (melancholic, poetic, melodramatic); in a book like a punctuation, between images, not as a single image)

·    not so much as a typology (which the mirrors remind of)

·    voluming: sequencing, not single shots, maybe 12 shots and the aim is to shift perception around (like in DARK, stepping in and out of stories)

·    one after the other (no grid)

·    strength comes with numbers (every image individually doesn’t have the power)

·    psychological/visual sensitivity (human connection)

·    META NARRATIVE: longing and desire to connect (to world, objects, each other, places) > broader way of dealing with that

·    NEW RULE: EVERYTHING I SHOOT GOES IN (SHOW EVERYTHING). See things as a whole, every picture has a purpose.

·    I have to change my project. The project with Jas can run on the side but give it maybe 1 1/2 years to develop.

… cool. A week before handing in the project. Easy.

·    human condition of the 21st century

·    isolation emphasizes the situation

·    deep disconnection

·    hyperisolation

·    interconnectedness

·    take away food, no restaurants, forced to physical separate (removed) > no physical interaction

>    no face-to-face communication

>    needs emotional/psychological aren't met

·    online doesn't satisfy that (social media, porn, attachment to characters in tv shows)

·    presence of human but anonymity

·    Which needs can be met?

>    food – yes

>    luxury and comfort – yes

>    but we are longing for something else

·    Pierre Bourdieur: loss of social connectedness (there have been a lot of attempts to measure this but it's hard to do that)

·    Robert Putnam »Bowling alone« (no churches, no bowling clubs etc): decline of social capitalism

>> how does that come down to the individual?