Precedents:
"Smoke Signals" A 2008 documentary project focusing on the ‘boy racer’ scene in Christchurch, NZ. The output for this work was a photo book accompanied by 6 prints in an exhibition.
2008 Christchurch, NZ
Photographed Images/Photo book
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Methods/Techniques/genre
Long shot taken from a distance encasing the street, taken in landscape to give a wider perspective, taken from a higher ground to express power as we look down upon the street, rule of thirds used effectively within
Description
Street shown in the image consisting of a T-junction. long straight street with skid marks on the streets, looks like an old neighborhood houses look old, taken from a height to give a better perspective as well as make it look as if were looking down on the image.
Context and Ideas
Context within this image expresses how this street is transformed into a drag strip at night but in the day it is a general road uses for traveling from A-B
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Response
In my own series I want to incorporate that sense of showing a space which is my context and express what is made for but then photograph what that boy racers use it for, i.e a car park which is for cars to be parked is used as a skid pad to provide entertainment and adrenaline rush.
Car park at shopping mall
Tokyo Japan, 1996
Photographed Image
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Methods/Technique/Genre
Taken from a height, most likely a tall building, rule of thirds used effectively, two main spot lights but no light source.
Description
Image taken from a height of six cars parked in a shopping center car park, two spot lights illuminate two spots on the image. Asymmetrically spread out, looks effective and works effectively.
Context and ideas
Gueorgui Pinkhassov is a photographer, born in Moscow in 1952. He began his interest in photography in his teens, and enrolled at the Moscow Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1969.
No true context related to this image, constructed with cars in an open space
Response
For my own series I want to incorporate that kind of shot trying to get a good height on my top of my area to get a good perspective off the entire area and the surroundings
Port Or Ravenna
Italy, Ravenna 2011
Photographed Image
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Methods/Techniques/Genre
Taken from a height, rule of thirds used with the man skid marks in the center, effective use of color as the yellow contrasts the entire scene
Description
The aftermath of a well used dock, tire marks show the tracks of vehicles using the space around them and the direction in which the vehicle travels, looks like art
Context and Ideas
Alex Majoli (born 1971, Ravenna, Italy) is an award-winning Italian photographer associated with Magnum Photos known for his documentation of war and conflict.
Ideas behind the image portray the tracks of a well used dock in Ravenna.
Response
This image portrays my idea effectively which I want to achieve, I want to create a similar scene expressing the skid marks left behind by boy racers creating a piece of art work.
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