Author: Mumutawhae Stevens

For me this process was filled with experimentation of light. It was extremely rewarding as I learnt a lot through doing pinholes for the first time, taking photographs in a very raw form taught me a lot about the basis of image creation.

In these images I tried to capture nature through a childs perspective, with raw and fresh eyes. These images for me almost appear as memories or snippets from a day out in nature. As a child I would often pick flowers and put them in between book pages until they would dry out and flatten. The photograms of flowers are reminiscent of past memories from my childhood.

To me this piece is a visual representation of life and success. I used red because for me red is the color of passion and love which is success and the spiral is a metaphor for the passageway to success because the journey can be a spiraling and challenging journey. The birds are an addition to the idea of success because birds are creatures of travel and exploration. I was also trying to achieve the concept that your viewing experience can differ depending on whether you see something from one perspective or another.

photoshop video animation

Nan Goldin

For the just a minute brief I said a set of verbs and told my friend to express it using her body. A way to use the body as a part of the outcome of the images.

For this brief, I called out a set of verbs such as to leap, to roll, to jump, to fold, to bend, to twist and I told my friend to express them using her body however she wanted. Which to me is making the body a part of the artwork and giving her creative control over the outcome of the images, and the photographing of it as a documentation of this process.

I love how effortless his photos are in the sense that they are not perfectly staged and composed yet they are very captivating. With these images, it’s more about what is captured in them and not too much the way he captured it, yet they are still well composed but not particularly set up intentionally. Yet they told such a story and showed life and fashion at that time on the streets of NYC and fashion shows.

Ren Hang was a Chinese photographer and a poet, his images are very bare and natural which I like. He uses the human body a lot in his artworks and also their intervention with nature. I love the way his images capture the subject in quite a vulnerable way yet very beautifully as it is just them and the nature of what is around them. His works give me a lot of inspiration towards the Intervention and Just a minute themes.