Artist Statement:
James Wayling: University of Northampton
Architecture Photographer – Analogue Photographer and Darkroom Practitioner
The exploration within the architecture of the University of Northampton: Park Campus, capturing the characteristic and nature of each individual building textures and details with the canon a1 (35mm camera).
The expression of feelings to capture the individual character of the buildings to represent not just the notion of change, but also the disappearance of the buildings in the future which is being demolish, removing the history and pass of the University nourishing history of grown from the 1970s and onwards.
As a student who live at Park Campus within the First Year of studying at the University, the character of the place help grows my own character, gaining confident and personality towards myself not just as a photographer but as a person, becoming more social-able, friendlier and approachable also shinnying within my own photography work, looking for different perspectives and creativity through the influences of photography.
Presenting the notion of change from then and now, feeling similar to the notion of how I feel towards the change within my hometown of Milton Keynes. Which concededly changes every time I leave to study, I come back to a different town each time, changing not just the shops and areas but also the location which I grew in becoming alienated to what it has become and how society is affect overall.
Architecture of Park Campus:
Creation of the Architecture Photography and Understanding Darkroom
Exploring each building character and nature, finding a surreal human character per each building, object and pathways within the exploration of Architecture photography at Park Campus
Brief:
Exploring the surreal and abstract of arts within architecture photography, creating a notion of surreal human-like characters with each object that is encountered through the capture of the camera of each shapes and tones given from the buildings of University of Northampton Park Campus before it vanishes through history.
Expressing the feeling of how the photographer feels of change and what is going to go as a representation of the University of Northampton.
The use of architecture photography, will demonstrate the skills of the analogue and darkroom practitioner representing the final months and years of the 2018 university student, feeling forgotten and vanishing from existence as similar to Park Campus being removed/forgotten this year and people moving to the new campus to learn in a new format and location of Northampton.
Through the tones and textures of the imagery, it will create a notion of emotion and feeling towards change from my perspective, will can be described a mixture of good and bad feelings but odd to have it happen pretty fast throughout the studying years at the University of Northampton.
Link to the Blog:
www.jameswaylingphotography.com/blogpage/fine-art-photography-portmanteau-project
