London Photography Trip - Exhibitions

Trip to London:

We visited the science museum in London, to view the exhibitions of Alec Soth, and Julia Margaret Cameron. These are both photographers of different periods. We could take photographs in Alec Soth's exhibition; however, in Julia Margaret Cameron's we could not, therefore I only have photographs of Alec's work. 

Alec Soth was born in 1969, he is an American photographer, and has a variety of series of photographs including: Sleeping by the Mississippi, The Last Days of W, and Broken Manual. Soth uses a large format camera, so he can get wide frame images. He has won awards such as the PhotoVision award in 2008, and the Santa Fe Prize for photography in 2003. 

Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer, known for her portrait photographs of celebrities of the time in the 1800's. Julia was born in 1815 and died in 1897, aged 63. Her technical involved using a soft focus, as she saw photography as an art form, as well as a science. Her closely cropped portraits affected modern photography, showing how influential her work has been even to this present day. 

I liked this image as it creates an wary atmosphere, as it makes the viewer question why the man is standing alone in the forest? The wall in the exhibition compliments this image well also as it's dark too. A wide depth of field is evident in this photograph, which creates depth in itself as you can barely see through back to the end of the forest, implying the trees are dense. 

I liked this image also, this image is similar to the image above as it creates a natural feel as they're both linked to nature. In addition in both the images there's a single man standing in the middle of the images. The colours in this photograph all compliment each other well as they're all muted colours. 

This was my favourite image of Alec Soth's as I admire how there's two different photographs which combine into one, even though they're separate this is evident. This image is interesting as it's unique because you rarely see a house in a mountain. This image creates a slightly industrialised feel, due to the building. 

In the Alec Soth exhibition there was also some of his inspirational sources. A few of these are shown in the images below:

Julia Margaret Cameron:

Julia Margaret Cameron:

Julia Margaret Cameron also featured at the exhibition, next to Alec south. We were not allowed our cameras out in this exhibition, so all of the images below come from the Internet. 

Julia was a British photographer, known for her portraits of famous people at the time, she was born on the 11th June 1815, and died on 26th January 1879. Julia took up photography late in her life at the age of 48, when she received a camera from her children as a present. Julia manually manipulated her photographs, for example framing them with flowers. She'd often take her photographs close up to the individual, as she saw this as a rejection of the norm, she wanted to focus on emotive photography instead of structure portraiture. 

Some of Julia's work is shown below: