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Bit of a project for my AS photography exam title which is Evidence Of Human Presence. I was kinda working along a Weegee/Banksy theme for these. Had a lot of fun doing this :D
Futuro 001
Futuro, or Futuro House, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The distinctive flying saucer like shape and airplane hatch entrance has made the houses popular among collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, measuring 4 metres high and 8 metres in diameter.
The WeeGee Exhibition Centre, Tapiola, Espoo, Finland is a cornucopia of museums, exhibitions and events, includes five museums, a modern art gallery, a café and three museum shops. This building, originally designed as a printing house by architect Aarno Ruusuvuori, has been transformed into a unique exhibition centre for culture and different events. It contains over 20'000 square metres of living culture, art, exhibitions and events.
Futuro 001 has been owned by TV celebrity Matti Kuusla since its manufacture. It is worth noting that despite the 001 numbering this was not the first Futuro manufactured - the prototype was numbered 000 and that Futuro has been fully restored and is on display at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Futuro has spent its life on a lakeside property in Hirvensalmi where, mainly because it has never had an electrical supply, it has been only used in a very limited way.
We were going to go to a bar called Violet Hour so we could refer to it as High Violet Hour, but instead we went somewhere else and Emily had a cocktail with something called Creme de (High) Violette, which I thought was going to be horrifying but which was actually amazingly delicious.
For this assignment, I attempted to emulate the photographic style of Weegee. He is known for photographing New York's streets and night life. Weegee was also a photographer for crime scenes. Most, if not all, of his photos are taken candidly, meaning that the subjects in it do not purposely pose for the shot. Instead, Weegee uses the stylistic technique of having a decisive moment in which he captures people going about their lives and behaving like they normally would in the environment they are in. If it is not daytime, Weegee uses a regular single flashbulb as lighting for his pictures. When used in dark environments during the night time, the flashbulb creates a noir lighting effect which produces intensely dark shadows and illuminates the subject that the light falls upon. To mimic this, I had my subject look at the moon during night time. I asked her to say anything that came to her mind when thinking about the moon and the stars. I captured the shot as she was rambling and laughing, using a single flash as my source of light to recreate the light and shadow contrast Weegee had in his photos.
Mrs. Leonora H. Warner and her mother Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, are shown at the Metropolitan Opera opening night, New York, 1939. Mrs Kavanaugh is one of the subjects of the famous photograph by Weegee called 'The Critic'. (Photo by Bert Morgan/Getty Images). For information about licensing this image, visit: Getty Images
Bob Parent, 'Weegee and Mel Harris looking at pictures for the Naked Hollywood book', c.1940.
Source: Wikimedia Commons.
© Weegee (Arthur Fellig) / International Center of Photography / Getty Images.
The family droid Weegee in Morgan Katarn's worshop at the Katarn homestead on the planet Sulon.
From Star Wars Jedi Knight Dark Forces II.
Frankly, this was the most rewarding match because I killed Weegee at the end for the win and didn't even realize it. GG