Laura Et Tantawy
Laura is the main Egyptian to be granted the esteemed W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund grant, which she got for her drawn out series I'll Die For You. The honor praises photographic artists whose work follows the practice of W. Eugene Smith's humanistic photography and committed empathy. |
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In 2016, she was among the four specialists designated for the lofty Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, granted every year to a photographic artist who made the main commitment to the visual medium in Europe during the previous year. Her work has been distributed in The New Yorker, Afar, Le Monde, Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Time, New York Times, Huck and Foam.
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In 2020, Laura joined Canon's worldwide Ambassador Program. Joining a worldwide list of in excess of 100 visual experts, she addresses the fate of visual narrating, Canon's novel image and "its quiet saints - the staff and visionary designers who make my work conceivable" she said. Laura highly esteems her free way of life as a visual imaginative. Her objective as a craftsman is to deliver socially drawn in, novel and intriguing work. She frequently works together with similar people, foundations and associations headed to illuminate capably, contribute positive change to the world and energise invigorating idea and imagination.
My responses - Identity Portraits
This is my interpretation of Laura Et Tantawys work, I to choose to take images that i thought represent me without showing me in the images. I took a lot of shadow images as i think that shadows are something that we can't always see fully and we have to look much harder to identify what the silhouette of the object is, this relates back to me as I'm quite a closed of person and you have to look a little closer and get to know me better before i start opening up to people, but once i get more comfortable and i warm up to someone i show what I'm hiding under the 'silhouette'.
Zine
A Zine is a little dissemination distribution of unique or appropriated texts and pictures. photographers use them to exabit a series of there photographs.
Zine one
Evaluation:
For my first Zine i was really just experimenting on what i wanted to do, i kind of gravitated to the idea of family and this Zine. i then went into shrimp zine and applied my images into the website and played around with the set up and partitioning of my images, once i did that i printed out the finished project and binded them together to complete my first zine.
Zine two
Evaluation:
in this Zine I chose images that represent family and home for me, i took images of my family and the surrounding areas of my grandparents house as we spent some time there during Christmas and the time with my family. I was doing this and decided i should get more images and do more variety of different images to give more choice for my final product.
Zine three
This is my first draft of my phonebook I was experimenting with different verities of paper and hoe they would effect the images and photographs I have taken.
Photographs in the City
For this project we were asked to take a series of images in the city, showing our identity and where we live, we were asked to get around 10 images to show our identity in this project, these are my identity images:
Evaluation:
We were asked to take a series of image in unusual places so i took images of different things around London, from different and unusual angles from where people usually would see them. I think this went well as there are many different images that express individuality and a uniqu view of the city.
Photo And Text
My Annotations
Max Pinckers - The Fourth Wall
Pinckers integrates text into his book by having twofold pages with little segments of text in a huge textual style, which is perused across the two pages. What's more, he incorporates pictures of another book (displayed at 1:40). I like the way that the composing is easy to peruse and it connects to the pictures (the twofold pages), but I loathe the book inside a book. The idea is fascinating, but perusing it turns into a battle and I'm not genuinely certain regarding the reason why it has been incorporated/the setting behind it. The paper utilised in the book is the paper utilised in a paper, making the pages inconceivably fragile and causes the photograph book to feel remarkable. Every one of the pictures are spread out and shown in various sizes and ways, and it helps me to remember the format of a paper because of its inconsistency.
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