23 Things Photography
- Ahmad Ahseek
- Nov 11, 2020
- 2 min read
After a tutorial whereby it was finally decided that a photographic piece would be better I was suggested to look into abstract photography and given a few practitioners to study.
Among those practitioners was Wolfgang Tillmans where by his work was very abstract and intriguingly appealing.
This is one of the work that intrigued me the most. It's basically a form of timeline illustrating how in the past he had a linear perception of life and now his perception is more complex.
I was really intrigued about how he achieved something like this since it seems rather impossible thinking of photography.
Of course the best way to learn such thing is.... via YouTube....
These are a few videos I studied... the second one is more educational... explaining the roots and the method used previously while also mentioning some other abstract photographers such as Henri Becquerel who was trying to detect radioactivity visually and came up with abstract images, Alvin Coburns who used mirrors to obtain some intriguing effects or Herbert List who was playing with the focus n everything to sort of create a hallucinating feel to his work. These are a few interesting artist I found but there's many more from the video.
From there... I did my attempt to it. However at this stage I wasn't trying to create anything representational yet.. more like experimenting with my camera and see the various possibilities.
Only the second image was further edited on photoshop to sort of bring the crispiness to it since the focus was on that 1 single coil of dust. All the other hasn't been touched at all, the camera itself was set on monochrome (B&W).
They were taken using a Nikon P900 which is a budget model but still very flexible and workable.
Here are all the tryouts including the failures and the raw of the only image I edited from this batch.
However, these images remained without any context even though that some look quite interesting... and for the next batch I was to try and give it a concept.
References
Serpentine Galleries. (2020, May 15). Wolfgang Tillmans. https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/wolfgang-tillmans/
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