Week six and seven combined to create a chance to work on a small project commissioned by one of our peers. Presenting the result within the week seven webinar.
Stage one of the exercise was to create a brief for a peer while they create one in return. The brief required restrictions based on the weeks’ discussions. Partnered with Steve Rabone we engaged to discuss what was possible with outside commitments. I would be working at the lifeboat station for the following days and with that in mind Steve put forward a brief to photograph behind the scenes. As part of my brief to Steve, I had asked for 7 images so to level the field he asked for the same.
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I felt that I would attempt a series of selfies of the work that I undertook at the station.
At the start I had no pre-ideas about the output of the images however in post black and white pulled the images together as a collection or series. To undertake this style of work I would prefer not to use myself as the limitations of using a remote and limited position a tripod could be used.
I find the results resonate with the work of Lee Friedlander in his series of self portraits with a direct comparison to the 1966 print titled Haverstraw, NY which depicts Friedlander at the wheel of a car. His work in the series expands away from the simple self portrait utilising shadows and reflections to create a more diverse body of work than I produced.
Robert Mapplethorpe is another example of a practitioner that I feel has adopted the use of self-portraits to create a series with a sense of style and fun early on, the later longer exposure, showing signs of confusion in old age. I can see that the technique can be effective in the creation of images and without the constraints of the location of the brief I may well investigate this further in the future.
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