Nadeem Chaudry 

Nadeem is a textile artist that goes to uni, He has managed to get a lot of the work he has created into galleries so he can show the world what he does. Nadeem gave us a talk at college on how he started out and to this day is slowly pursuing his life goal as a textile artist. 

Nadeem is a Pakistani Muslim born and raised in England but has a few members of his family that are from very different ethnic backgrounds such as his grandparents and parents who were actually brought up in africa. 

Nadeem bases most of his art on thoughts from his head which relate to sexuality, religion and culture and the way he sees each subject and what they each mean personally to him as an artist. A lot of his work is mainly based around sexuality though which we saw a lot throughout his presentation. Some of his sculptural pieces can be very striking but beautiful at the same time. I feel that a lot of his work is hard to understand when you first look at it because some of his sculptures are not at all like what the average artist would normally create.

I love that some of his work needs an explanation as this means that when people first take a look at his work it is up to them to decide in their own minds what his pieces might mean, i think Nadeem likes to leave a lot of the work down to each individuals imagination because that way it becomes more exciting when he reveals to people what his piece is actually all about and it is also interesting to find out what other people's first impressions of his art were. 

Here are some images of the sculptures he presented to our group at the talk and explained to us... 

Fujifilm competition update wednesday 26th march  

Originally for this shoot I had planned to take black and white film images of people walking around Burton town just getting on with everyday life.

When it came to taking the images I changed my mind last minute as i felt taking pictures of people just walking around was a bit too original and had been done too many times before so I wanted to do something a little different.

In the end i decided to look up some photographers on the internet i'd been given the link to by my dad and i came across some great location images of dangerous and dirty slums visited by photographers who had taken a real interest in the way that people live in those conditions. This inspired me to try and recreate some of the scenarios i had seen in some of the images using the dark room in college as my location.

I set up a tripod in the dark room with the camera on top to help keep the camera steady when taking my images. I set the shutter speed to 300 and kept the shutter open for 5 seconds for each image to make sure i captured every image properly.

I used Molly and Kirsty as my models for these images and got them to sit down on the floor in the dark room and used bits of rubbish and molly's coat as props to help create the scene. I also turned off the light while taking these images and used the torch on my phone as a spot light directing it at molly and kirsty, again this was to help set the scene and make my images look a little 'doom and gloom' like those taken by the photographers that visited the slums.

I really enjoyed doing this shoot as i thought it was a really interesting idea that not man people had attempted to do before, it is also very different from anything i've ever shot on film before.

Proposal 

For this competition I have decided I am going to take my images in digital first to practice and make a final decision on what i would like to photograph in film. 

At the moment I have a couple ideas of what i'd like to photograph using film. I am definitely going to shoot in black and white film because I prefer it to using colour film as I feel it always looks a lot better when it's been developed and gives it a nicer feel

 I think i'd like to take black and white portrait images of people out and about in town with other people in the background walking past, getting on with the usual everyday things. Or I think I would like to take black and white fashion images of women wearing clothing that is seen as the most on trend  outfit to wear today.

I will make my final decision on what I would like to take images of by firstly practicing taking them using a digital camera before i move on to taking the rest of my shots in film. 

Fujifilm competition 2014 introduction

Every year Fujifilm give young photographers the chance to present their photography skills and the chance to win prizes by entering their competition where you can take as many photos as you like using a Fujifilm film roll and then send copies of them off to the website before the 31st of March (closing date for the competition)

It can be any style of image you like, The only rule is to take the images using Fuji film roll, you can also submit as many images you like, they can all be linked or all be different.

 Previous enteries: 

Here are a few examples of some of the work that has been submitted for the Fujifilm competition in the past few years..

 Over all winner in 2012

Runners up..

 

Overall winner 2013...

Runners up...