Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Gatecrashing a guest lecture

I gatecrashed a CLM/Photography lecture from Thomas Enderby, who is a part of the Post Production team for Rankin. I didn't necessarily expect to find anything relevant to this project I was just in need of anything visually interesting.
Half way through the talk, these photographs came up on the screen and 2 people simultaneously turned around to me mouthing 'GLITCH'.























Not all Rankin's work involves fashion, editorial, commercial etc, they also do a lot for charities. These are part of a campaign to raise awareness of Ataxia. Rankin photographed people who suffer from Ataxia and then the glitch effect was created by moving the photographs as they were being scanned.
I really like how it wasn't created in post, it was the physical process of making a print digital and the effect moving the prints that resulted in the effect of the final outcome.

I'm fond of the black and white portraits to contrast against the harsh, bright colours in the glitches.

Similarities to my past work:


This is how I integrated glitches in my last project, this time I am looking to do it more subtle and less intrusive to suggest slight malfunction rather than entire body glitches.










Portrait by Maria Blackstone

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