Hamish Fulton and Richard Long

Hamish Fulton and Richard Long are two artists who use photography and type in their work. The relationship between the type and image is difficult to achieve without giving a advertising edge. Both of these artists have achieved this by integrating the words with the image in such a way that they become one object. I think this is the solution to my project and I want to use similar techniques to them to solve the problem I have with combining the type and image. I want to use descriptive words about the object in the photograph and from my feelings of the atmosphere of the place as the type.

Richard Long

Hamish Fulton

layouts

I have decided that I am not going to make my final piece an advert for chatham. I originally wanted my outcome to be less commercial than my previous projects. I want to concentrate on the images and words that reflect my experience of the place. Maybe the chatham advert could be used to just show an application for my images.

I can't make the images work with text and image separate so I have started to concentrate on making them work together. I think this gives a less commercial feel but still reflects graphic design within my photography. Here are a few mock ups for text on image.

I want the final pieces to be as big as the space will allow and I want to screen-print the text over them as I tried in previous tests.

Layouts for Chatham Dockyards advert

Distracts from each image, they are too close together. Each image needs its own space.

This one is ok but i think it is too grid like. does not bring anything to the theme of my images.

This works well I think, the text fits nicely on the polaroid style of the images. Gives a feeling of a personal experience.

trial for photo hanging

I have mounted a photo on wood and hung it with string. The small piece hanging underneath the photo would be where the text goes. I think this works as a composition and 

complements my photography well.

How to display my photos?

I can't decide how I want to display my photos for exhibiting. There are so many options. I want them to be very eye-catching to show that these things are not hiding anymore and are out for everyone to notice. I want to re establish the fact that these things are all around us but also bring it bak to the fact that it is Chatham Dockyards. I have some examples of what i could do:

This may be nice for small photos but i think mine may be bigger than this. Also this does not expose the individual images enough.

This would be great, it works with small photos, but im not sure it would with bigger ones. It shows the fact that the things are all around us well.

I love this idea, would be great if i had enough space to display a lot of images in one line, but i think it would work in a grid as well. This technique shows the images in a bold way and the way you can walk around them shows that the objects are just there in our world too. Maybe I could do them double sided? I need to work out where i should have the text. On the photo or not? If not, where? I could hang the photos with rope to link to Chatham dockyards.

Shape My Language at the design museum - This may be an idea of how to hang the text.

Square photos

I have decided that I will just concentrate my project on Chatham Dockyards. It is a classic example of a tourist attraction crawling with amazing things people dont even notice. I want to show the dockyards from my eyes, using photography and words. Here are some recent photos. I have decided to make them square as I believe it suits the abstract quality of the photo more than a standard photograph shape.

Scans of A3 screen prints on photographs

I think the textured text works nicely on the dull photographs and that the simple textured photos work best out of all I have tried so far. The photos look great large (A3) but I think they could go even bigger, I want to try A2 or A1 on a really thick textured paper.