Edited Images (final)

 My final,edited images for the emulation project. 

My original (raw) emulation images

Clothes, mobile phones, mp3 players, headphones/earphones are priority things in todays teenagers world so I decided to base my theme on those things.

In the first two images we can see nicely dressed girl busy texting somebody and listening to music and not being interested in anything around her. Second image shows a girl holding chip earphones with nothing to plug it in looking with envy at her duobled twin.

Here my idea is to show a poor girl holding an empty hanger and looking at the mirror where is a reflection of a nive dress which she really would like to have.

 Again,, here I took two images of my sister ( rich and poor version) I'm going to stich those images at the stage of postproduction mainly using different layers, selecting tool and masking.

(Additionaly I used light reflector to reflect the ambient light coming from the window and to light the shadows on the left side of the subject.)

My chosen project

'In a shaded place' is a project that I chose. It is very inteersting series of images which are full of mistery and ambiguity. Beside this, the emulation of this project will require some technical/digital (doubling subject) skills and I think that, this is my strenght.

The idea for my own interpretation is to produce images which will present a young teenager (doubled) in two diferent material/financial situations or in two different statuses (rich and poor)

Doppelganger

Doppelgänger is a keyword in one of the Wendy McMurdo's projects called 'in a shaded place'. I've put some information about this word:

In fiction and folklore, a doppelgänger (German "double walker") ( is a paranormal double of a living person, typically representing evil or misfortune. In modern vernacular, the word has come to refer to any double or look-alike of a person. The word also is used to describe the sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection. Doppelgängers often are perceived as a sinister form of bilocation and are regarded by some to be harbingers of bad luck. In some traditions, a doppelgänger seen by a person's friends or relatives portends illness or danger, while seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death.

Emulation images (my first attempt)

This is my first emulation image preseting my own interpretation of Wendy McMurdo's 'Young Musicians' project. My aim was to prhotograph the subject playing invisible imagined keyboard. Throughout the face expression and a pose of a model I wanted to show her gaze and concetration which is a key-aspect in McMurdo's work.

Here I wanted to emulate a 'in a shaded place' series where Wendy McMurdo digitally duobled the subject so that they become twins. I took two images of my my sister sitting at the front of the mirror. First one I used as a reflection in the mirror evoking a 'twin' with a finger. Second image I used as a main subject sitting and gazing at someon on other side of a mirror.

Just like in the first image I wanted to show a young musician concetrated just on her invisible instreument who seem to be slightly out of this world.

*I cropped all my images to square format to make them look like a medium format photographs.

The Skater

This is an information about Her most recent project found on her official website:

http://www.wendymcmurdo.com/
















 

The Loop film

'The Skater' images are not conventional images of young, able-biedied athletes captured in motion, in control of their bodies. Instead, McMurdo's skaters are suspended in mid air, their limbs thrown back, their heads hanging, held aloft by invisible forces. 

 (British Journal article)

In a Shaded Place

In a Shaded Place

In McMurdos 'In a Shaded Place' project, each child is digitally 'doubled', so that the become twins These digital mirror images act out scenes of curiosity, cooperation or competition where each child becomes the other's playmate or rival.

Despite the fact that these images were produced in 1995 the manipulation (doubled subjects) of them looks very natural. This shows us McMurdo's long-term experience and  skills in digital media.

She takes her images with analogue medium format camera which probalby makes her work harder in terms of image editing. Nevertheless, this tells us how good she is in combining those two (analogue and digital) techniques.

Projects

Wendy McMurdo's projects

In a Shaded Place 1995

Early Play Project 1997/1999

Young Musicians 1998

Introduction

In this assignment I am going to focus on photographer called Wendy McMurdo. I will look at her work and analyze it in terms of technical and ideological aspects. Beside this, I will produce a series of  emultion images to show my own interpretation of Wendy McMurdo's work. 

Wendy McMurdo (born 1962 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a British artist who specializes in photography and digital media. She attended Edinburgh College of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she first became interested in photography. Her work centers around the relationship between technology and identity and she has produced several influential bodies of work which explore this theme.

Wendy McMurdo works with traditional photography and computer technology to produce pictures of children who seem slightly 'out of this world'. Her images exist somewhere between fact and fiction.