Is there any sense in which Lee’s work could be considered voyeuristic or even exploitative? Is she commenting on her own identity, the group identity of the people she photographs, or both?

It looks like a sense of both to me. An almost kind of look at me and you should be looking at me. Some are easy to understand others id had to look twice and try and understand her concept. Her concept of a point and shoot camera I think works well only due to her being in character. Had this been a studio type set up I don’t think she would have had the same overall effect.

Voyeuristic

1. relating to or denoting sexual pleasure gained from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity.” women as objects of voyeuristic pleasure.”
   • deriving or relating to enjoyment from seeing the pain or distress of others.” the voyeuristic pleasure of spying on relationships under pressure.”

Exploitative

1. making use of a situation or treating others unfairly to gain an advantage or benefit.” an exploitative form of labour.”

Would you agree to Morrissey’s request if you were enjoying a day on the beach with your family? If not, why not?

Yes, I think id be open to the suggestion, although I do find it a little strange, once she had explained it I would find it rather intriguing to see the final image.

Morrissey uses self-portraiture in more of her work, namely ​Seven​ and ​The Failed Realist​. Look at these projects online and make some notes in your learning log.

There are some compelling images within here works. Some I find quite disturbing in a way, I’m not a huge fan of portraiture and at times find it hard to see what a photographer is trying to show, this is the same when I look at portraits in an art gallery whether they are oil or watercolour pictures. Some I see the person some I wonder what it is I’m looking at. The ones I find that hold the eye are her failed statement. There is a sense of fun I see in these images from trying to work out what they are before reading the title. Had they not had a title, then I wouldn’t have understood them to be honest.

 

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Creators. (2010, July 21). Photographer Nikki S. Lee Can Turn Into Anyone. YouTube. Retrieved April 15, 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI8xpJItPVI [assessed 20200415]

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recreate a childhood memory in a photograph.

Brighton View from Windsor

Well, this has been a challenge in itself with the whole lockdown. How will I create something when we are in lockdown and not allowed to travel. Exercise yes but it wouldn’t be a good decision to travel to where I was brought up in Brighton. So what are we supposed to do in these strange times?

Who better to ask than family members. I thought about the views I enjoyed as a child. First, that comes to mind was the seafront and views of Brighton’s West Pier. If your not aware of it, its become a mystical place in my eyes. It’s pretty mesmerising when you’re sat or stood looking at it. But that wasn’t going to be achieved and not the kind of burden id place on my Dad.

My Dad was the person that got me into photography in the first place and knew he still has a camera and thought about using dad to take an image I wanted. Growing up as a child we had great views over to the South Downs and the fields that surround Brighton, in particular, the view I had from my shared bedroom with my brothers. I would look out to the hills and wonder whos out walking and venture out. The place I could always see was the Chatri a War memorial for the Indian Soldiers from WW1.

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It gave my Dad something to do and assist me. The idea was for dad to take and image of which I could use. No editing just SOOC image not worrying about the state of the picture just about building the memory.

To build this image was something id thought about for some time, overly this image on an image from my window in Windsor. Using myself in the image with a double exposure trying to portray one view from Windsor and the other from Brighton. Using photoshop to blend both images and reduce the opacity so that the image can be seen.

Double exposure and use of layers in PS

Bibliography

Wikipedia. (2020, March 29). Chattri, Brighton. Wikipedia. Retrieved March 28, 2020, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattri,_Brighton [assesed 20200328]