Update

So it's been a while since I last posted (sorry!) and with only two days to go before attending my first competition exhibition - I'm beyond excited! In between now and my last post I've been working on getting my work up to date but that didn't go quite to plan with the week I spent back home being far from productive! :s

But what I did manage to get going AND complete before I left was my 'Out Of The Ordinary' photography project :) The project was broken down into three sections:

- Influential photographers

- Location

- Character

My initial and influential photographer was Sarah Hobb's.

Sarah Hobb's work explores and makes visual, many forms of human behaviours, habits and compulsions. In her work you can really see the amount of thought and planning emerge from the well though out detail and deliberation within her images.

Untitled (overcompensation) 2006

She stages each of her photograph scenes so that they embody phobias, neuroses and common obsessions people have.

untitled (perfectionism) 2002

untitled (indecisiveness) 1999

untitled (escapism) 2009

Many critics find her work both profound and witty, reflecting Hobbs’s understanding of the way the human mind works. In her object based photographs she strongly indicates these characteristics, without the aid of people. As a photographer I think she is a great example to look at for my location shoot, because her work really stresses the importance of a good concept.

untitled (insomnia) 2000

I was really intrigued by this last piece by Hobbs and found a great description of the piece's concepts and ideas online, which describes how: 'Hobbs depicts those undesirable and unwanted thoughts using Post-it notes, placed menacingly above the pillows, closing in on the absent sleeper, inverting the comfort of the bed. This leaves a lingering thought of how the vacant sleeper may have been driven from their bed by these thoughts.  The sheets tossed wearily aside ‘there is no room for sleep here’

Her work inspired me to further explore the theme of insomnia in my own way, with my own location and unlike Hobbs my own characters! I'll get the location and character shoots up in the following post :)

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quote referenced from : http://www.utata.org/salon/24091.php