Trip To The Science Museum And The V&A
Alex Sloth
'To me the most beautiful thing is vulnerability'
Alex Sloth was born in the late 1960's and wanted to be one of the world's most known documentary photographers. He was also admired for his experimenting by visiting other type of exhibitions, books, magazines and other different type of digital form. Sloth wasn't like the other photographers, Sloth took the open road as his subject but he doesn't just stands there thinks about the formal elements and takes the picture, he would try and think how he could change it and make it unique. Which his first achievement was 'Gathering Leaves', he had achieved that by haunting, intimating portraits and landscape and a range of open wildernesses, his work captures the meaning of what it is to be human for example expressing tenderness, joy, disappointment and fear which his portraits captures the emotions of different peoples and tension between the conflict side and community side.
Richard Learoyd
“Quite often I think we’d like to merge with others, but there’s always something in between. In this case, its the surface of a photograph.”
Richard Learoyd was born in the 1960's and he had transferred his whole room sized into a camera obscura and by doing that he is able to create any different types of photography using that technique. He has carried on with the career for the last ten years now and he has perfected with this type of processing which that just creating a whole image just by using photographic paper and an entire room, he was able to expose the images directly onto the photographic paper inside the room. The thing I mostly like about the images is that they have been created with a camera obscura which he has used an entire room and the thing that makes me confused is that how does he get that much detail onto that photographic paper without any camera or a type of lens. The technics he used within the images were that the photographs were made in really large camera images, this could mean that the room was really large and so they had to use even larger paper so that they could get every little detail into that photographic paper. Which also there is no negatives, transparency or digital files used to create the multiple versions for the single image. And also another thing I loved about these images are that they are all unique there nothing similar to each other there all separate and meaning totally different things to one another and another than unique, there positive images which he has made is by using 'Ilfochrome' paper and maybe the reason for him to be using that type of paper could be that, by using that paper it is the only way to create your own handmade photographic prints which has colour in them and the unique characteristics it has are that the paper is polyester base meaning it has exceptional dimensional stability and another thing is that the paper is also chemically inert giving the paper a bright neutral white colour.