I thought the idea of taking logos and brand icons and changing them quite interesting, like the work that Richard Prince does, but with more of a funny twist to them.

I took these three logos to edit, mainly because they were easiest to edit, and also because they had names and fonts that I could edit into other names, I had particular fun while doing the Adidas logo, as it has particularly cocky/chavvy connotations, and you can pretty much guess where I was going with it. FedEx was quite fun too, as I’ve been left too many times waiting for a delivery, sitting indoors getting very annoyed because it’s late, or I missed it the first time. Snapchat too was quite interesting, as I personally quite like Snapchat as an app, but never really post much in the way of selfies, I find it interesting to look at people’s lives and what they document on this app, if only for 24 hours, but at the same time, some people do document a little too much, and you end up flicking through some real ‘crap’ (like someone’s hot chocolate, why document that, mate?)

For this brief my mind was pretty blank; I didn’t really know what I wanted to do/make, so I just wandered around town and picked up a few things I thought would be interesting to photograph. My friend Ali’s work really inspired me, so I tried to look a little bit into creating interesting angles with my objects.

I  really like these photos, I feel like the colours and the angles work really well with the objects. I also like the way the leather of my sofa looks in these photographs, I feel like it worked well as a background.

For this brief I thought about the fact that people hide things – you can see a part of them, the part that they allow you to see, so I thought that taking portraits of people with part of their face concealed would be an interesting idea

My flatmate, Sarah’s face is more exposed than the others, because, since I came to uni, she has been the most open of my flatmates/friends, and I know her very well, she’s a very open person, in many ways, whereas the others are slightly more closed off (no offence to them <3)

I’m quite pleased with these photos, as they are all a bit personal.

Here are some images I rejected:

Some of Rachel’s photos are a little blurred or not flattering, so I decided not to use them, and the one of Matt seemed a little too posed, so I decided against it.

For this brief, I had the idea that I would initially take my family photos and remake them with my flatmates- essentially my new family (if only for this year). I couldn’t quite figure out how to make this work, with my flatmates being generally very busy, throughout the week and throughout the day, so I struggled to have them all in the flat for a long enough time to take photos with them. So instead I decided to go for the concept of Spaces Filled, with the idea of it’s not the area that makes the home, but the people in it, so I took photos of empty spaces, and then photos with people there.

I drew upon Brian Law’s few photographs of Empty Spaces and Frank Callaghan’s photographs of Empty Spaces

This photo in particular resonated with me, because I began to think about the idea of home being characterized by the inhabitants.

These spaces interested me as I thought about what I spent most of my time doing whilst at Uni/at my flat, either studying, cleaning up/cooking, or sleeping. I used Jake as a model because of convenience, plus as he’s doing media, he has the same schedule as me, and knows how to act around a camera. I’m pretty happy with how these photos turned out.

Here are some of the photos that I rejected:

Most of these photos were rejected because they were out of focus, or had poor exposure, or weren’t quite the look I was going for, as is the case with the first three photos.