Locating Unit

For my Locating unit, self-initiated brief, I decided to push my boundaries, step out of my comfort zone and explore more of a digital side to print. After seeing an image of a friend’s photography work where they had layered the same image onto of itself, I decided to look more into a similar style of photography. Through looking in books and researching online, I found that there is a specific style of photography layering different images on top of one another. This 'Double Exposure' photography really appealed to me, and so I decided that this is where I would start for this unit. . Whilst researching I found photography Jon Duenas who has a collection of double exposed images, and whilst the subject is predominantly portraiture, I think this style of photography, just using other subjects would be an interesting and different starting point for my self-initiated unit.

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The main success of these images I think comes from the contrast between the two images. Having a large focused subject to create a shape, which is then filled and layered with a busier image. These photographs by Dan Mountford really inspired me, especially the one on the left, mostly because the subject of the images is similar to what I would like to explore.

After deciding this, I had to think of what types of images I want to merge and so I took to Pinterest to find any style of images that caught my attention. I found a couple of different things appealed to me. The first was landscapes and nature, mostly because it is an area of photography I have always wanted to explore, but I also thought that it would make a good subject for my busier photographs. The second area that I thought would be interesting is street photography, Using images of straight lines on roads, mixed with the soft blurred edges of puddles. Similar to these I found below.

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