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‘We have all found something beautiful or intruiging by chance’-anna gerber

‘The photograph becomes ‘surprising’ when we do not know why it has been taken’ -roland barthes

‘The photograph becomes ‘surprising’ when we do not know why it has been taken’ -roland barthes

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Unexpected outcomes is a project exploring the unintentional and

chance outcomes that film photography can offer. In order to unleash

the possibilities one must take themselves out of the process, stop

focussing on composure and actual outcome and allow the camera

to work in a playful experimental way. The project consisted of many

different experiments. In total twenty films were used which allowed me

to collate a substantial amount of material and investigate many different

and unexpected outcomes one may come across when photographing

in such a mindset. This project aimed to explore and highlight the ways

in which chance can effect a process in a beneficial way.

It aims to open up our minds to something fresh, new and creative and

show the viewer something they are not use to. This project consisted

of photographs created from the process of chance which lead to

outcomes of an unexpected nature. This project aimed to embrace all

different outcomes regardless of how in focus or damaged they were.

I wanted to show that through unpredictability and the unexpected,

taking ourselves out of a process can offer more dynamic, interesting

and alternative results rather than constantly trying to control the

process. Rather than planning something let the possibilities of chance

work to your advantage, embrace the unknown welcome mistakes.

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If we choose to use a film camera in a playful and experimental way,

rather than one frame per exposure, we can explore many different

converging lines within images. We encounter an element of surprise,

the unexpected. Unaware of what may happen and what result will come

of it, this adventurous approach allows you to capture photographs of

what isn’t actually there. This allows photographs to work much like our

memory, melting and converging lines of images together allowing for a

tangible image and a moving memory captured in one photograph.

We can explore chance by being creative with the negative itself before

development, by investigating the chemical reactions that occur

when the film reacts with different types of substances and heat. Of

course, you choose the effect which is applied, and the time it is left

to effect the negative but inevitably you are out of the actual process

as you cannot really control exactly what change takes place. You are

unaware of what has happened to the film until it is developed.

Take yourself out of the process, stop thinking too much about what

you are taking a picture of and just shoot, see what happens. Inevitably

you do control the process to some extent but not thinking too much

about the composure of the image can expand the range of results

achieved. This explores possibilities of the unexpected and welcomes

chance, mistakes and accidents which consequently can work to your

advantage as potentially answers can be found unintentionally.

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‘We have all found something beautiful or intruiging by chance’-anna gerber

‘The photograph becomes ‘surprising’ when we do not know why it has been taken’ -roland barthes

‘The photograph becomes ‘surprising’ when we do not know why it has been taken’ -roland barthes

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