CHARTERS SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT
1 HOUR CREATIVE CHALLENGEChoose one of the questions below to respond to.
Create a presentation showing your thinking, ideas, methods, mistakes, successes and final outcomes. You can include photographs, diagrams and text as your response. Try to link the work to your chosen theme. All of these ideas have come from The Photographers Playbook by Fulford and Halpern. Well worth a read if you are interested in creative ideas. Creative Challenge 1: Douglas Beasley - Excerpts from Vision Quest Assignment Cards
Idea 1: Go for a walk without your camera. Go back and make one photo of something you noticed along the way. Idea 2: Use negative space with "wild and reckless abandon," making your main subject a very small part of the composition. Idea 3: Walk an area you would normally drive past. Bring your camera and make photos of what you might normally overlook. Idea 4: Create a still life using objects and props. Take a photograph of it. Eliminate one element and retake the photo. Repeat until there's nothing left to take out. See how many steps you can make. Creative Challenge 2: Shelby Lee Adams - Find your reflection
Ask a model to look into your camera lens and find their own reflection, and be prepared to take the portrait. In that singular moment, people are less focused on projecting an image of themselves for the camera and are more looking to find themselves. |
Creative Challenge 3: Amy Arbus - Not necessarily to be taken literally
Photograph: your favourite possession your best friend your favourite place something you covet something you don't understand something timeless somewhere you have never been a mundane moment a fleeting moment what you cant see Creative Challenge 4: Michael Ashkin - Revealing an Enigma
Assemble an installation that includes one photograph, one object and one text in such a way as to produce or reveal an enigma. All three components should be ready mades (pulled from the real world with or without some modification on your part). Creative Challenge 5: Jane Evelyn Atwood - Storytelling with Pictures
Telling a story with pictures is just like writing with words. Something is seen, or thought of, or imagined. I would like you to tell a story with images that you make and put together, one after another, to recount something - be it abstract, conceptual, documentary or journalistic. You can follow one person, a group, a place. Inside or out. It can be vast or very small. It can be realistic or abstract. You should use no more than eight photos and no fewer than five. Each image must add something that hasn't yet been seen in the images that precede it. Creative Challenge 6: John Baldessari - Assignment 96
Using photography prove a point in science e.g. does gravity exist, how does force work. Creative Challenge 7: Tim Barber - Findings
Find someone else to take your photographs for you. Tell them what you're looking for and then see if you can find it in the photos they take. Creative Challenge 8: Reid Callanan - Cameras Don't Take Pictures
1. The camera is blind and doesn't understand mood. Make an image with your camera of a mood. 2. Make a portrait of something you love. Now make a portrait of something you hate. 3. Recreate a dream in a sequence of ten images. 4. Create an image you don't understand and create an image that asks a question. 5. Make images where the subject is on the edge of the frame and then make images where the subject is outside the frame. Creative Challenge 9: Keith Carter - Garden of Earthly Delights
Every time someone says something negative, hurtful, annoying or critical take a photograph of your face. Create a display of your portraits by the end of the week. Creative Challenge 10: Bruno Ceschel - Shooting Happiness
Take five photographs of things that make you happy. Just do it insitinctively. For example: 1. Spend time with people you like to hang out with. 2. Take the train /bike/car to visit that place you always wanted to see. 3. Photograph the secret space in your garden when you were a kid. 4. Organize a party for someone special. Creative Challenge 11: Lewis Chaplin - Lessons learned from a failed attempt
1. Get your camera ready 2. Tape your watch to the camera and walk out of the house. 3. Head north. 4. Every time the second hand of your watch reaches the top take a photograph. 5. Do not put the camera up to your eye. 6. Walk for 36 minutes or 24 minutes. |