#349 ASSIGNMENT: MARISSA ROTH #1
Former Pulitzer prize winner with the LA Times Marissa Roth sets the first of three in a series of photographic challenges that will have you today reaching for a camera and a pen! The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page.
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The two photographs referenced by Marissa Roth in setting this week’s assignment.
The words penned by Marissa for ‘Wind Shadows’:
“In a gusty autumn wind, soft shadows from a linden tree danced and swayed along a freshly painted white wall that served as a perfect blank canvas. This unquiet movement of the leaves and branches felt cinematic as the sun darted in and out of the fast-moving clouds, dappling the light.”
BY ROBIN CHUN
Please consider my 6x images and accompanying text for this assignment. I have interpreted 'nature' to my own ends - i.e. nature of the streets.
Five of the six images were taken inside the time frame over one day and two nights, with the sixth taken a few nights before but fits well into the brief.
The location is a bus shelter in Hanham, a small suburb of north Bristol, not far from my home and a local haunt for my photography so an area I'm very familiar with, and even though my wife chastises me for walking there at night with an expensive piece of kit in my hand I feel safe and secure based on my knowledge of the area.
I approached the assignment with some misgivings as I'm normally more of a 'hunter' than a 'fisher' but as I settled in, as it were, the time I spent, overall about 3 hours or so, I started to think about the text and how I could use words to accompany the images... so the idea came to me to steal from a Kate Bush song and album title '50 words for Snow', in which Stephen Fry's rather salubrious tones recite 50 words for snow over the music... so I have chosen 50 words to be spoken in a hushed and revered way while viewing the images, therefore adding, I hope, a somewhat surreal effect or feeling... anyway that was my thought process. As I say, if this is too 'left field' then, well "c'est la vie."
‘50 Words for Billboards.’
advert/advertising/bright/barker/colour/curiosity/cinema/depth/dark/display/eye/evening/energy/film/furtive/festive/grand/grandiose/highlight/hoarding/image/inquisitive/juxtapose/journey/looking/luxury/move/moving/neon/night/obscure/oils/optical/painting/picture/pictorial/resolution/renaissance/see/seen/scene/texture/tales/topographic/usual/visual/vison/watching/waiting/yellow
