Rineke Dijkstra

- Rineke Dijkstra was born in Sittard, the Netherlands, in 1959
- Studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1981 to 1986
- A self-portrait produced during her rehabilitation, in which she is seen having just emerged from a pool, exhausted, sparked a new direction in her work
- These formed her breakthrough Beaches series (1992–96), which featured her young subjects in different locations in the United States and Europe
- She also commenced a series of images of Almerisa, an adolescent Bosnian refugee, whom she continued to photograph until 2003
- She has also focused on particular individuals entering the military, as in her images of Olivier Silva, a French Foreign Legionnaire (2000–01), and new inductees into the Israeli army (2002–03)





http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/01/14/what-s-in-a-portrait-rineke-dijkstra-s-almerisa

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/bio/?artist_name=Rineke%20Dijkstra&page=1&f=Name&cr=4

- Renike is influential to my work as she has created sets of images over a period of time. The series of images go on a journey with the subject or several subjects to show how their life changes throughout the time she spend capturing them.

Final Flower Time Lapse

This is my flower time lapse which is now finished. I am happy with it but I did miss one of the stages out so it does jump a little bit but considering I did not know the software and also its my first movie created by images, I am quite proud of it.
If I could do it again I would try and catc every stage that I could as it was not possible for me to be there 24/7. Also if i knew the software a lot longer it might have also helped with alignment and design.

Frames

For my exhibition piece I have today ordered 12 frames as there was not enough to go round the whole class due to the majority of people exhibiting print work not screen based.

I have ordered a2 frames also as my grid is would be far too big at a1 size. This is how much grid is hopefully going to look but I have printed off some 6x4 pictures to move round to see where is best to place the hands. However this is just a basic look to see how it might end up like.

Flick Book Arrives!

Finally today my flick book has come through the post. The first one got lost so I was starting to panic a bit. I did not know what to expect but `I was really happy with it and it is very good quality.

This is a video of how it looks like, poor quality but it gives you the idea!

Diptychs

I have started to create some of Diptych portfolio pieces and they are look quite good.

Here are some examples:







I am liking the way they are set out and I think that this format really works and the pictures fit well together and a lot more interesting.
I am going to carry on creating these until i got around about 12 or 13 images all together for my portfolio box.

Flower

These flower images are some of the images I captured to put into my stop motion time piece. This is just a brief collection to show a small version of what the sequence starts off with and end, also the composition and also the colours used within it.

Research Richard Maplethorpe really helped and showed me different ways that I could capture the flower in different compositions.

Flower Sequence

These are some images of the process of my flower sequence in flash to show the settings I have been using etc






Its taken me quite a while to start getting the sequence together due to the difficulty with the sofware but as you can see I am starting to get there!

Blists Hill Visit 3

My third visit to the museum was a lot easier due to knowing what I was achieving with my portfolio, the Diptych style. So I went with a clear shot list of what abstract and what full pictures I needed to match up with the ones that I had already. it was a lot easier to get shots that were useful to me as I know what my goal and outcome is.

Here are some more that I took:








My next step is to start going through all the photographs that I have taken which is about 300 in all, and matching them with the best possible match so that they flow through the whole picture.

These are my final hands that are going to be put in a grid. I have chosen these 12 as it is a good range of ages from 18 months all the way to 85 years.
Also they are the most interesting ones with clothing on their wrists, jewelry or reminiscence of their jobs on their hands and habits.
Each image will be in an a2 flame and bled to the edges so as I do not wish to have a mount in the frames, as I feel this will not make the grid as good.

What are Diptychs?

Elizabeth Halford: Elizabeth Halford uses Diptychs to story tell as well as to do with time. Such as the washing up and the Baby being washed shows either Day and Night or Dirty and Clean.





http://digital-photography-school.com/diptychs-triptychs-5-prime-examples


John Bernhard: John Bernhard has used Diptychs in a different way by matching two completely different subjects together but making them work as they are the same shape or bare a resemblance.





When i went to my tutorial we had a discussion to as how I should present my portfolio piece. My tutor suggested to me about using the formation of a Diptych. I had no idea what this was so I went back and did a bit of research around this type of format.

http://www.johnbernhard.com/Diptych/Pic01.html

Blists Hill Visit 2

Today I went to the Victorian Museum again to get another range of photographs which I did not manage to get last time.
Here are some examples of some that I took:







I am not sure how they are going to work as portfolio piece yet. I need to how a look to see how other portfolio pieces are put together and also techniques. I am also due a tutorial too so hopefully my tutors will point me in the right direction.