Summer Photo-Journal
The photos below are a collection of photos i took while on summer holidays. Firstly I went to Devon for my week 1 of NCS, I took most of the photos while on a long hike so therefore they all include a lot of greenery from the forest we went to for the hike. After this I went to Italy, Rome for another week to visit family there, Rome has some very old architecture and i found it very unique, i took photos of myself in front of the Colosseum and and some photos of the Vatican City from the outside however i couldn't take any inside. After coming back from Italy i stayed in London for a bit and there i took photos of many different buildings like galleries. further more i went to Poland with my family, there i took many beautiful photos of the sunset at many different occasions, once from my window with clouds and some buildings, once out of the window of a fast food restaurant and once of a stunning landscape at a calm farm near my grandparents house. After a week or so spent in Poland my family and i went to Slowakia to the "Slowensky Raj" which is and amazing place with mountains and a great place to go on long hikes in, i took some photos of the long walks we took at 4 am to make sure there was no people, it was absolutely beautiful and i would love to go there again however next time i would take alot more photos looking at the nature.
Gallery Visits:
Gallery Visit 1-
Somerset House:
During the summer holidays i visited Somerset House as preparation for the photography course I'll be taking for the next two years. I chose this gallery because it has a mixture of modern and older work, for example when i went there was an exhibition called: Kaleidoscope: Immigration and Modern Britain. This was a photography exhibition curated by Ekow Eshun, and 10 photographers that were born or grew up in Britain many with family origins abroad including Hong Kong, India, Jamaica and Russia. In this exhibition was also the work of Chris Steele-Perkins called "The New Londoners". This project studies families from each of the 200 unrecognized countries of the world now living in London; the stories of their origins, and the reasons why they chose to settle in the city. Steele-Perkins spent around four years on this project, interviewing 164 families from 200 different countries that are now living in London. The New Londoners interested me because every photo has a completely different atmosphere. You can see the unique traditions the families brought to London from their home countries, each photo shows different ways in which people dress and behave. It shows how diverse London has become and that it is possible for people from different backgrounds to get along.
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Gallery Visit 2-
The National Gallery:
The second gallery I visited during the summer was The National Gallery. I decided to go there because it only has older paintings unlike other galleries like the Tate Modern. The National Gallery houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. It was founded in 1824 when the British government bought a collection of 38 paintings from the estate of the merchant John Julius Angerstein (1735–1823). The collection was first exhibited on May 10 of that year but in 1838 it was reopened to the public in its current premises.There was a display of paintings painted by Jean-Michel Cels in the 19th century called "Sky Study with Birds". Cels' work stood out to me in the gallery from the others as it shows a different and unique way of portraying nature. Cels also painted birds of different shapes and sizes in some of his paintings, due to him traveling a lot throughout his life he captured many different species. He also added many different vibrant oranges and yellows to his paintings but sometimes keeps the whole painting dull if he was drawing rain.
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Gallery Visit 3-
Tate Modern:
Lastly i visited Tate Modern during the summer holidays this was my favorite gallery because they have the most modern art out of the three. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group (together with Tate Britain. Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives and Tate Online). Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1900 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art. Tate is housed in the former Bank-side Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. It is directly across the river from St Paul's Cathedral. The power station closed in 1981, then opened as a gallery in 1997. The display of work that stood out to me the most was Josef Albers project called "Study for Homage to the Square". his work stood out because he investigates the interaction of colours with one another, adjusting hue, tone and intensity to explore optical effects. It also intrigued me because it is very abstract d it has both vibrant and dull colours in one painting for example the brown and purple are very different colours but Albers used shades that go really well together.
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