Reflections – Jennie Meadows MA Photography

AGM62 Multiple Reflections 12 December 2020

While waiting for the test prints to arrive from DS Labs, I thought I would try something different. Inspired by the photographic collage technique and methods of Noel Myles, I created the following compound image.

These are images taken in May 2017 when I first started experimenting with interval timer shooting and timelapse photography. The piece is comprised of 24 individual images that I’ve combined using Adobe Photoshop. The subject is the Longford River, which flows through Bushy Park. They were taken on a particular stretch of the river where the sun hits the water at a certain of day, creating the most hypnotising reflections.

This piece was inspired by Myles’ similar obsession to mine of going repeatedly to the same place and taking extreme amounts of images. This is a thread that runs through my own practice and the basis of the majority of my work. I was always criticised by my classmates at Richmond School of Art of ‘taking too many shots’. At the time, I took this a negative aspect, but now I realise it’s how I work.

I also realised that I had tried something similar during the AGM60 Research & Experimentation module.

References

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Myles, N. Youtube.com. 2020. [online] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0XVBoywgWQ> [Accessed 8 December 2020].

Noel Myles – Artist in Residence at ITN. Youtube.com. 2020. [online] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDwPiAzWIdo> [Accessed 11 December 2020].

Noel Myles | Reframing Photography. [online] Reframingphotography.com. Available at: <https://www.reframingphotography.com/resources/noel-myles> [Accessed 7 December 2020].

Shaw-Miller, L., 2020. Noel Myles: Joining At The Edge :: September 2012 :: Cassone. [online] Cassone-art.com. Available at: <http://www.cassone-art.com/magazine/article/2012/09/noel-myles-joining-at-the-edge/?psrc=photography-and-media> [Accessed 11 December 2020].