Aliki Braine
Aliki Braine has created a series called ' Black Landscape'. This series is extremely relevant to my concept as sections of the image are not visible. Braine has taken images of generic, stereotypical landscapes. She has sot these at dusk so that there is a reduced tonal range of just three shades of grey and black. This has been done to simplify the images. She then hole punches the negatives of the images. This is to create a lack of clarity so that you are unsure of exactly what you are looking at.
The destruction of negative is generally seen as an unfortunate event as it ruins the moment that has been captured. In this series however you are forced to fill in the blanks which opens up new possibilities to the image and allows you to read the image differently. The idea is that this could be any of our traditional landscapes but without the details you begin to fill the gaps with your own memories of the country side. I find this very interesting because although it looks quite simple it actually becomes quite personal to the viewer as they become a part of the process by filling the spaces themselves.
Here is a short video to explaining Alikis work and thought process:
The hole punching allows light to flood in during the printing process and produces deep black circles. It also creates White scratches on the surrounding film surface which is clearly visible on the images. This emphasises the hole punched areas even more. This is the type of technique that I could use in my work instead of using objects to block the landscape.There are a variety of ways that I could damage my negatives to block sections out and I think that this could be the a better way to portray my concept.
