Klaus Pichler

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After completing my contact sheet I researched more into photography of mouldy food and saw these photographs on the National Geographic website. These photographs are very similar to the ones I plan on taking. Except with these ones they often use a prop with the photo, giving them an almost royal look. I really like the very dark black background and hope to achieve this with my photos as I think it remains the focus on the object and creates a photograph, rather than a object. The main difference between mine and Pichler’s work is that he waited 9months for his food to mould, with mine the maximum time would be a week. However with my intended objects, Apple, bread and a tomato, these mould pretty quickly in the right environment.

The lighting on these photos also makes the fruit and mould look neon, another element I wanted to look into. This is also seen in David Maisels work.

More of Pichler’s work on the National Geographic website:

National Geographic (2014) Visualising Waste: Klaus Pichlers gorgeous rotting food. National Geographic. Available from http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/07/16/visualizing-waste-klaus-pichlers-gorgeous-rotting-food/ [accessed 06 February 2016]

The meaning behind is work is to represent how much food goes to waste in the world and how it gets the chance to decay over time, yet there are still people in the world who are starving.

Alan Sailer

“A pellet shreds three lit cigarettes in one of Alan Sailer’s impressive photographs. He creates amazing images of everyday items being hit by projectiles. Using high-speed photography, he can capture in stunning detail the moment items such as marbles and air gun pellets pass through objects.” (The Telegraph)

I like the flat background Sailer has used and how the focus is completely on the object in frame. I like the effect of the marble going through the cigarettes and the high speed shot and how it has focused on them, however this wouldn’t be possible with the equipment I have.

The Telegraph (unknown) Alan Sailer’s photographs of objects exploding as they are hit at high speed. UK: The Telegraph. Available from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/8850580/Alan-Sailers-photographs-of-objects-exploding-as-they-are-hit-at-high-speed.html [accessed 14 April 2016]