tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84257044429404761162024-03-13T12:12:03.398-07:00The Good the bad and the ugly. Personal work.Art, conceptual and personal photographic work of Sammi Sparke Photographer. Plus some ramblings every now and then. Enjoy.Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-75981628183428588252015-03-30T07:48:00.000-07:002015-03-30T07:48:31.264-07:00Motivate MondayThemed Days continued......
I'm torn today on what to give you guys on this #motivatemonday. A meeting last week really got me thinking about my creative self and the conceptual photography I used to do and love. With this in mind I think today is best suited to showing you Erwin Olaf. Olaf is a fashion photographer I discovered at uni who explores, very often, dark themes in his work. Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-34832243567295858532014-10-31T04:10:00.000-07:002014-10-31T04:10:43.971-07:00Japanese Urban Legend - Toire No Hanko SanI was having a dig around on my computer and found this old uni work - perfect for a Halloween giggle. Enjoy:
So here it is, script and photos from the Japanese children's urban legend :
Toire No Hanko San
A group of Japanese school girls have crept back into their school at night to do a Wiji board in hope of talking with the ghost of Hanako-San. Hanako-San is the spirit of a girl Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-77478768760040101252014-07-23T07:16:00.000-07:002014-07-23T08:17:57.216-07:00Fertile WorldHere are (a recap for those who have followed this blog for a while) some of my favourite conceptually motivated university projects. I blogged about most of these projects when they were in the early working stages and if you would like to see those early experiments please feel free to look back through the posts here.
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Fertile World
The series focuses on female Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-48027538187950489382014-07-23T04:56:00.001-07:002014-07-23T05:02:51.969-07:00Surrealist Work
Here are (a recap for those who have followed this blog for a while) some of my favourite conceptually motivated university projects. I blogged about most of these projects when they were in the early working stages and if you would like to see those early experiments please feel free to look back through the posts here.
www.sammisparke.com
Surrealist Work
In the final year of my degree Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-64912747670134211062014-07-23T03:56:00.000-07:002014-07-23T05:03:44.323-07:00No Man's Land
Here are (a recap for those who have followed this blog for a while) some of my favourite conceptually motivated university projects. I blogged about most of these projects when they were in the early working stages and if you would like to see those early experiments please feel free to look back through the posts here.
www.sammisparke.com
No Man’s Land
No Man’s Land is a conceptual projectSammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-89179786849907863452014-07-23T03:45:00.000-07:002014-07-23T05:04:47.575-07:00Object to Subject
Here are (a recap for those who have followed this blog for a while) some of my favourite conceptually motivated university projects. I blogged about most of these projects when they were in the early working stages and if you would like to see those early experiments please feel free to look back through the posts here.
www.sammisparke.com
Object to Subject is rooted in theories of the ‘Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-24124301506833015132012-08-20T14:38:00.000-07:002014-12-18T09:37:23.919-08:00Taylor Wessing attempt 2012I just found THAT email in my inbox telling me my portrait hadn't made it into the Taylor Wessing portrait prize this year. Arse.
Well this is the 3rd year I've tried and if I'm here and well I will try again next year I am sure.
May as well just show you the image now.
If anyone has any crit it would be welcomed but only if you are familiar with the Taylor Wessing portrait prize.
Caroline Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-18738485355227300542011-05-04T05:57:00.000-07:002011-05-04T09:49:01.854-07:00Kornelia Shoot - No Man's Land ProjectAgain , this blog is for criticism and I would appreciate any after you have read what i'm trying to achieve (below).
The images here with Kornelia intend to show how teenage years can feel isolating and unsure, this goes two fold for Kornelai as she is Polish and came across here a few years ago with her family.
Kornelia is 15 (believe it or not) and I'm trying to bring out the serious side of Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-60887716361469646362011-04-30T09:00:00.000-07:002011-04-30T09:03:06.729-07:00Park shoot with the girls (No Man's Land Project)
This blog is actually to get some crit off my uni mates so I'm uploading a few of the same sort of images, which you wouldn't normally see.
I've decided to play on the different personalities and ages of the girls. For the younger one, Natalia, I'm focusing on her playfulness and with Kornelia, the older one, I'm going for a more serious feel.
My aesthetic is meant to bring out the whimsical, Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-14797705725140878242011-04-28T14:52:00.000-07:002011-04-29T14:45:14.884-07:00Beach Shoot with Natalia and KorneliaThis is a shoot from a few weeks ago.
My flash wouldn't work, which I was gutted about as I think fill in flash is going to be the thing that makes these images look the way I want them to. Basically the only images I've been happy with so far is the shoot before this one with Natalia and her friends.
After a crit at uni, people liked the pared down background of the above shoot because it Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-78054960443150641422011-03-19T06:43:00.000-07:002011-04-21T03:01:42.344-07:00.....nearer I get
This shoot is from the other day where I followed 3 teenagers along the coast trying to get some useful shots of them. I'd asked for the three of them to participate instead of just Natalia, but by the time the shoot came about I realised that photographs of the three of them weren't going to be useful to my project. I took quite a few pics of them non-the-less which they can keep, while Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-43149489839829397782011-03-14T05:03:00.000-07:002011-03-14T05:07:07.287-07:00Natalia Shoot
Well I'm still largely off beam with the current lot of images I've shot. Finding it very hard to give my full concentration to this project with dissertation deadline looming. Unfortunately this project really does need my full attention. I guess this shoot could be considered a 'what not to do' with some, but few, images in line with how I want to proceed; the more whimsical images. A Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-64562356103310527712011-03-06T11:43:00.000-08:002011-03-07T02:27:29.100-08:00First Proper Shoot
What a day! A terrible start and not enough time to look at my log book of ideas to get my head in the right place but I did what i could. I met the girls in Stanley Park. Today was primarily a shoot to see how they react in front of the camera while trying out some poses that I've seen/found while doing my research. I didn't really get many shots I'm happy with but did get a better idea of Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-35181573929384277772011-02-20T10:13:00.000-08:002011-04-21T03:04:44.046-07:00Tempting fate is a silly thing to do......Ok, I have finally found a pair of teenage sisters (Polish in origin) to take part in my project. I met with them last week and discussed my ideas, which they seemed interested in.
I've had terrible luck with this project and finding a subject so far, so I'm keeping everything crossed that nothing happens to put the girls off. With all this in mind I still find room to tempt fate by blogging Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-82652457973388554312010-12-03T09:06:00.000-08:002011-02-20T11:19:37.330-08:00Object to Subject: moving directionOk, as much as you, and I, loved the experimentation with Surrealism I'm going to have to put it on hold with this project and concentrate on the side of 'Object to Subject' which looks at human emotion.
I'd lost my way a bit by going down the path of visual techniques as a way of subverting a sexual reading of my nude. There was nothing wrong with this per-say but it was too far removed from mySammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-91557449923596340192010-11-24T14:56:00.000-08:002011-02-20T11:21:55.487-08:00Object to Subject:Outtakes from todays shoot that I won't be using for a number of reasons, some because of the dimensions and others because they don't fulfil my criteria. But I like these images.
Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-31355476203382593732010-11-11T10:45:00.000-08:002011-02-20T11:23:20.371-08:00Object to Subject (in different approaches)More from the same series. I've refrained so far from putting the more graphic images from the project on here.
Mainly because I'm still shooting and constantly in the process of making decisions about images that work and don't work....also I wanted to preserve my model's modesty- The only nudity I want to show here is nudity necessary to the meaning of my project.
Comments welcome.
Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-13908534404805434672010-11-03T08:03:00.000-07:002011-02-20T11:24:50.541-08:00Current project rejects: Object to SubjectObject to Subject is a project based on deflecting a sexual reading of the nude.
The idea is rooted in the theory of 'the gaze' as coined my Laura Mulvey.
In the project I use visual devices and mechanisms which I project onto my nude to subvert a sexual reading of her.
I began with using light and shadow which I will post later but my second shoot involved distortion of the body using mirrorsSammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-40828505983533921932010-10-21T10:27:00.000-07:002014-12-21T13:48:32.965-08:00Blackpool PeopleOk,
Finally I'm uploading some images from the latest brief, which was to create images which would fit seamlessly into a book of our choice.
The book I chose was an Aperture Monograph by Diane Arbus. Arbus's subjects were usually odd, strange, on the fringe of society. Freaks if you will.
Here are some images I took including the final shots I picked:
This lady used to work as a medium- but Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-1780323551209014282009-11-04T14:07:00.000-08:002010-11-03T10:36:37.417-07:00Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-22437543241046342942009-11-01T07:08:00.000-08:002009-11-01T07:54:23.993-08:00Autobiography images deconstructedThis shot is about my nightmares, worries & fears.This shot is set on a beach because whenever I have nightmares they involve the sea and waves engulfing me. The shot involves a lot empty space, a feeling of vastness, to show my fear of loneliness.The clock which pays homage to Dali in its deformed form, represents my fear that time is not on my side and I don't know when my number will be Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-29374393714593053102009-10-13T08:45:00.000-07:002009-10-13T08:59:22.689-07:00Experiments with October LightAutumn is my absolute favourite time of year. It has always been that way for me. When I was a kid this was probably because my Birthday fell in October as well as Halloween which i have always adored. However as I have gotten older I have come to associate this time of year, particularly October, with this special light that can't be found any other time of year. Aside from that it is the Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-48315485965335135382009-10-07T11:32:00.001-07:002010-11-11T11:28:21.636-08:00Thoughts and stuff
Not done anything for ages because i'm a total loser.
Since we have been exploring autobiography for our first project at uni I have explored a concept I have been thinking about for a while now, inspired from my studies of Hogarth.
The Serpentine line: The Line of Beauty.
This S-shaped curved line (a serpentine line) that appears within an object( or as the boundary line of an object) Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-26332766786760934502009-08-04T04:34:00.000-07:002009-08-04T04:50:18.477-07:00Abstract brief- finally uploadedThis was our second project, set early on in our first year. We had to demonstrate our ability to light objects to show off their qualities as well testing our ability to use a large format camera. It was a brand knew learning experience for me as it was the first time i'd done any real technical learnng and experimenting with lighting still lifes. Here you are:This didn't come out as stretched Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425704442940476116.post-53484207471041306002009-08-04T02:24:00.000-07:002014-10-31T03:53:30.698-07:00Narrative stuff from last termI thought it was about time I put this on here. I really enjoyed making it but i'm not too happy with some of the final photoshop'd images for a number of reasons.
But it's good to have on here and hopefully next term I will look back and see how far I've come.
So here it is, script and photos from the Japanese children's urban legend :
Toire No Hanko San
A group of Japanese school Sammi Sparkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505876227130545914noreply@blogger.com5