Lights that look like Sounds

Ages and ages ago, when I first got my camera, Ted and I thought we were so cool doing experimenting and so on.

It was for my 18th birthday, and my mum and dad got me a Canon eos 400d. I was still on my Graphic Design course but I knew I wanted to concentrate on photography for my degree.

My birthday is the 16th of December and the house was full of fairy lights. Me and ted took turns pressing the shutter release and then slowly, or quickly, moving the camera around. The results we all completely individual and un-reproducible photographs.

A time before this, when I was 16 or 17, I took a lot of pictures of Ted with an older set of christmas lights. I was only using a compact and had no control over the shutter speed. The results are still some of my favorite photos to this day. :)

Compact Pics.

Xmas Pic

Final Major Project of year 2...

My theme and starting point was Alice in Wonderland and threw in ALOT of feminism and poetry and growing up symbolism. Enjoyed it a lot, and it was nice to get to think about fashion in a very contextual way.

The First picture is Alice when she is young. white/virginal. Innocence. Fresh.
The second is the Queen. She is in the prime of her life. Think fiery red passion. Lust and sex. She is having her cake and eating it too.
And the third is the Mad Hatter. Cast as a women in my project. She is demure and more sensible. Lessons have been learnt.

For this project I looked at Emily Dickinson poetry, feminism, Roni Horn, colours and of-course, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol.