How B/W Shoot #1 Turned out

This shoot is so far my favourite. Not only does it look great, there are some good themes to it too. As I'm sure I've written about before, the whole idea behind this shoot was to do with my thought processes and my mind, which is all represented through the different shapes and patterns in architecture. This shoot is more of a proverbial self portrait, because I don't actually feature in any of them. You have to think a little deeper in order to make the connection instead of just looking at the photographs.

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When I was receiving feedback for this shoot, I was told that it reminded them of MC Escher's work. I can see the connection aesthetically, especially in the photographs which have all context (the beginning or end of the building) removed to make it abstract. However, Escher employed more mathematical and scientific themes, mostly to do with the impossible, like his piece "Ascending and Descending, 1960, Escher MC".

That piece is a mathematical trick, mostly on perspective, but it also serves as an existentialist piece, where the people on the eternal stairs are trapped there forever. There are also two figures not on the stairs, one looking up at the onslaught of stair climbing, and another sitting down on a staircase of their own, this one with an end. They refuse to join in in this forever going climbing, however they will sooner or later be brought to believe the error in their nonconformity. This shoot is very similar to some of Escher's work, however I think if I were to try to make more of a connection then I would think more about mathematical impossibility, society, and perspective rather than patterns and shapes alone.

Just as an added extra effect, I froze this film canister, and then after two days of intense freezing I placed it in some boiling water. I think that this is why there are some colour shifts despite there being any colour, because it distorted the film by making it curl and crumple, so when the light went through it in the scanning process, instead of it being completely flat, some bits were closer to the scan bed than others resulting in some greens and purples. I'm not entirely sure, but due to a lack of knowledge, that is my hypothesis.