Monday 10 October 2011

Portraiture by Chelsea Blackburn

The following work

For this project I wanted to create a set of images that showed a range of different people from the North West. I decided the best bet would be to take a series of portraits of people that either live, or go on holiday at a place called Three Rivers Woodland Park, which offers homes, camping, or caravans for people. All of the people you see below are taken there.
I then took a few shots of the homes and caravans that people live and stay in on park to accompany the portraits to show how these people live, and to show the small community in which they live.

I took the images on an old Hasselblad camera on film, and for the portraits I set up a mini studio in the club house bar on park. The caravan images are all taken on the same camera. As the images were all on film after processing them at University I scanned them into to a computer to enhance them digitally, leaving on the edges of the negatives as a border.










































Gathering influences from everything surrounding me, amazing photographers, fantasy films, the characters I meet, books, nursery rhymes and the pure beauty of nature. I love to bring all of those things together to create something new and exciting. As quite an eccentric person, immersing myself into stories and scenes seems to awaken me.

Monday 4 April 2011

The Cape Town Project

The Cape Town, South Africa project is an exciting opportunity for Blackburn College Photography students to benefit from a cultural exchange with students from Cape Town Peninsular University of Technology.

A group of fourteen students from both the further and higher education Photography courses will be creating a portfolio of images that represent the North West of England. Their work will take into account the rich history, landscape, culture and sporting achievements for which our region is known.

Once completed, this body of work will be taken, by our students to be exhibited in South Africa at the University in Cape Town. This amazing opportunity will include a seminar discussion about the work with their South African counterparts and a series of visits exploring the landscape, community and history of Cape Town.

Our intention is to auction work at the exhibition to raise money for the Kay Mason Foundation.