Sixth Post.

These images are made by Joachim Schmid. He re uses images that are unwanted or lost and creates something new with them, by putting the into the context of 'art'. I think his work is very strong and I would consider this a very modern way to present and use found imagery. The best thing about these images, I think is that we are left to create our own response to them, they're completely ambiguous. This is definitely something I want to consider in my work, do I want people to be able to create there own ideas of the work or do I want my work to be quite obvious and tell a story..? I've recently been sourcing images from books for my project, and I find it really interesting that I'm taking something from one place and changing the context of it.. By doing this I hope to achieve something that will be contemporary.

Fifth Post.

I've become fascinated with social classes and how there is still a big divide between them. Although August Sander's images aren't current images, I feel we can still relate to them, they tell us something that is still very relevant today. Not only does he photograph his subjects in a respectful way, he manages to capture the essence of what they do for a living and how it affects their class. I want to use social classes in my work, I don't want to take any photographs, but I want to source some images from books, Magazines and the internet and come up with something modern.

Fourth Post.

BBC - Genius Of Photography. Unititled Film Still #14, 1978. Cindy Sherman has some very interesting work and this series 'Film Stills' Is one of my favourites. These images are completely constructed, and in such a simple way. "She turned a familiar children's game, 'dressing up as someone else,' into art by photographing the result. In her series called 'Untitled Film Stills' Sherman created over a hundred publicity shots reminiscent of scenes from old B movies." This is quote from the article 'Genius In Photography' which I find very relevant. Something so simple can be turned into something that seems so provocative and new, I find it fascinating. When I look at these images I feel as though I'm looking at some sort of fleeting paparazzi shot, but I know that is not true. The backgrounds work perfectly and seem so real that you wouldn't question if this was a studio set up or not. I've been really interested in constructing my own images since the start of my second year when I started this module. I think it's really important to hold some control into what you're photographing or making.

Third Post.

http://www.choppedliver.info/people-in-trouble-contacts/ People In Trouble Series. 'The Belfast Exposed Archive occupies a small room on the first floor at 23 Donegal Street and contains over 14,000 black-and-white contact sheets, documenting the Troubles in Northern Ireland. These are photographs taken by professional photo-journalists and ‘civilian’ photographers, chronicling protests, funerals and acts of terrorism as well as the more ordinary stuff of life: drinking tea; kissing girls; watching trains.' I find this series of images fascinating, they are a very strong selection of photographs. Broomberg and Channerin are producing some very interesting work, and they recently won the deutsche borse award. This series of images is taken from the Belfast Exposed Archive, they show marks on them where people would often come in and deface them, it's because of people wishing to hide their identity. I think this adds to the images, they have this sort of playfulness which works quite well with the horrible context of the images.