Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Alphabet Photography

I have been set the task of taking photos of objects or things that look like the letters of the alphabet. This task requires a good observing eye and taking a good look at one's surroundings.
Here I have two examples of other people's work which I have taken off of Flickr, an online photo sharing network comprised of artists and photographers from across the world:

Untitled, Thomas Fredriksen
Firstly, I have a photo from this website taken by Thomas Fredriksen. For this series of photos, Fredriksen was inspired by Abba Richman's collection.
Pictured below is the photo collection that inspired Fredriksen.
















Coloured ABC, Abba Richman
Here is Abba Richman's photo, also taken from this website. Here you can see the similarities between these artist's series of photographs. For example, you can see both artists have kept an eye out on their surroundings, they have found items and structures similar to the letters of the alphabet. Some photos are hard to decipher if taken out of context, for example Fredriksen's letter Y wouldn't look like a Y if one was viewing that image alone, but alongside the rest of the alphabet letters one can clearly see it's a Y.