Louise Orwin

Pretty ugly is a project by Louise Orwin. There is a trend where girls upload videos to youtube asking if they were pretty or ugly and awaiting their replies. She said there was at least half a million videos and the girls were from 8-13 and she was horrified by some of the comments. So Louise Orwin did the same thing but in wigs and waited to see what replies she would get. Roughly 70% were negative. In her show she explained what the project was whilst rolling on roller skates and at the end she asked some of the audience whether they thought she was pretty or ugly and then skated backstage without speaking to us after but I like how she just went off without speaking. 

I found this the most interesting out of all the other people we have seen as she wasn't just standing there talking and it's about something that is an issue.

Raphael Daden

Raphael Daden is a Nottingham/UK based sculptor working mainly with light. Raphael has been combining different materials with light for over ten years and has been working professionally on commissions within this time.

My favourite piece of work of his is his 'Boxed in' project. He had squares with text hidden in dot forms. These were all in Hull. Like a word search, each line makes up a word or phrase relating to the situation that Hull and the UK are in that moment. The work mentions not to spend so much and looks at the rise and fall of the economy. 

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Amelie

RANKIN - 7 photographs that changed fashion

In January 2009, BBC 4 broadcast Rankin's 1 hour documentary Seven Photographs that Changed Fashion, in which he created his own tributes to the iconic images by Cecil Beaton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, David Bailey and Guy Bourdin. He interviewed an array of original photographers, models and assistants, and used contemporary models including Heidi Klum, Erin O'Connor, Jade Parfitt, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, his wife Tuuli Shipster, Mollie Gondi, Daphne Guinness and David Gandy.

My favourite part of the documentary was the remake of cecil beatons photograph. I think Rankin re-created that photo best.

David Stickman Higgins

David Higgins was born in Bury, Lancashire. He describes himself as a poet, actor, educator, conceptual artist and a father. He is also a drummer. Involved in creating and delivering a wide range of innovative arts projects since the mid 1980's. His Projects comprise connecting cultures and communities across generations, ages and abilities, in schools, colleges, museums, galleries, country houses and prisons. 

He started locally in Nottingham during 1997 it has since travelled across Europe engaging audiences in a highly thought provoking and educative experience.

Rear Window

Rear Window is a 1954 American suspense thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. This film is considered one of Alfred Hitchocks best.

These are shots from the film. I love the cluster of brown buildings and the rusty ladders. I love how most of the photo is brown because the buildings take up all the frame and the dark miserable sky makes the photo even better.

David Severn

David Severn (3 December 1918 – 11 February 2010) was a pseudonym for David Storr Unwin, a British writer. He was the son of publisher Sir Stanley Unwin of whom Severn wrote a biography in 1982, Fifty Years with Father. He had Who's Who entries throughout his writing career.

I find David Severn's photography quite plain compared to other photographers but theres still something attractive about them. The second photo is my favourite, i like the elegance and richness of the room and the green seats matching the soft green walls.

William Eggleston

William Eggleston is one of my favourite photographers. I love his colour photos. s not so much the object itself that matters in William Eggleston photography, it’s the colour that has always stood out. It’s the bright and saturated reds, blues, yellows, greens, browns – even in soft colors – that attract the eye and draw the viewer inside the image. Eggleston’s photographs display a variety of shades, both vibrant and turned off, with continuous tonal ranges from light to dark.

These are two of my favourite photos of his. I love the bright red shocking colour and the white lines coming from the light in the first photo. It reminds me of an old vintage record cover my mom used to have. In the second photo I love how the text seems slightly washed out and the sunset in the background is beautiful.

I love the matching colours of the wall, bath and toilet but I also just love the colour itself. I like the dark pink. It's a rather plain image but the colour is beautiful and one of my favourite images by William Eggleston.

My favourite thing about this photo is the car and the colour of it. It reminds me of a similar car colour on the front cover of Lana Del Rey's album.

I love the pattern on this sofa and think it fits nicely with the leaves in the background, and I also like the womans patterned dress although it clashes with the sofa.