For the second assignment, we had to work on the same topic as our first assignment. Since the word freedom is a very vague term, I picked a topic from my first assignment. One of the freedom that was shown for my photo is freedom from worry. I feel like this is something a lot of people can relate to, be it work, study or even relationship. We are required to find 15 – 30 images, be it found images or from old photo and make an image sequence from them.

For the first assignment I did double exposure, which was a really nice experiment on photography for me. I had a lot of fun and learnt new things through the process. For this assignment I thought that maybe I can use both taken images and found images to tell a story through there, be it through photo manipulation or through the photos.

I actually went to search on google and typed in Freedom in the search box to see what are the images. Somehow the images that are there are generally of birds flying away , people with wide open arms or photos of the sky, etc. I guess this are probably one of the few things that will pop up in ones mind when the word freedom is mentioned. So I thought to myself what are other things that one would link to the word freedom, should I make it more personal to me or not?

Since I was kind of stuck, I went to look on different photographers. While I was searching for images related to freedom, I came across this photographer called Julia Nimke. Her photograph are really beautiful, she also using double exposure for some of her photographs. The thing that actually stand out to me a lot when looking through her photographs is that her photos contain a certain depth to them. You could actually feel the vastness and space of the place through her photos, its really comforting in a sense to me too.

I really how the people in her photos looks like they are feeling very wild and free. The shot somehow feels very natural and it gives off this very calming feeling looking at her photographs, for me at least.

Another photographer that I actually found interesting is Flora Borsi. Even though the work she do may not necessary mean freedom, I really like the way she portray identity and dreams through surrealism. She using photo manipulation using metaphors, or even dark fantasies to make one think and feel through her photos. Something that I actually really like about her is the fact that her photos seems so right but yet wrong at the same time, I really pushes ones boundary.

I was actually thinking of something like conceptual photography for my assignment two, but I am actually quite worry about how I would execute it since conceptual photography is something that I myself think is a lot more harder than double exposure photography.

Ashley Edwards really intrigued me with her photo montage. Her photos have this really vintage touch to them, but even if I were to do photo montage I would not do this kind of vintage pin-up style. However what I really like about her is the way she put her photos together. She expressed a story through the photos using a mysterious yet  abstract way.

I have always wanted to try out photo montage, it is such a unique way of photo manipulation. In a sense it is like graphic design yet also photography at the same time. I am really curious on how all this type of photography techniques will work out, perhaps everything will work out when I get the feedback.