Laura Aglr

After taking the BTS shoots for Samantha’s movie, I asked Jasmine that if she needed an assistant I would love to help her out. She invited me to be part of the team for a personal project that was shot last Monday in Margate.

It was such a great experience to be in set with her and her lovely team and I also got to take some behind the scenes shots for them. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to share them until the film is out.

The location looked amazing, it was a kitch house designed by the set designer of the movie, Amy Exton; the makeup artist (Natasha Lawes) mostly works for films and she did such a great job. And the hairstylist, Judit Florenciano, and stylist Sian O’Donnell were also so experienced.

I learn so much every time I get to assist any photographer/videographer and I feel I am taking every opportunity I can to be in as many sets as possible.

I spent all Monday at school. First, I developed and scanned some negatives from an editorial I shot on Saturday.

After that, I got some A2 print tests at the Media Lab to decide how I want my photos to be printed and do some drawings or paint on them afterwards. (Pd. People at Media Lab are not really willing to help).

Then I did the cyanotype workshop, which I found so fun. I feel that trying these new techniques makes sense with my initial concept for the shoot, Movement and the Body, as I think I am actually interacting with the photos in a physical way.

We have been filming Jessi’s video for the last two days. She helped me out with my shoot and I offered to film her movie, I wanted to do some moving image since my FML project is just still images.

Women Behind the Camera (2007). A really interesting documentary that explores the lives of different camerawomen around the world.

After the workshop a few weeks ago, I have been developing and scanning my own negatives. It saves money but definitely doesn’t save time.

I am quite happy to be able to do it myself tho, I am learning a lot from the processes (both developing and scanning) each time I do it. Here are some snaps from it, I will also post some of the photos I got soon.

I freaked out when the medium format film came out as I thought I had lost all the photos by putting the film in the machine the wrong way. It turned out the first part of the roll is completely black and all the photos came out afterwards, thank god!.

Hi Vicky, this is just the transcript of the tutorial we had earlier. I barely understand your handwriting and I feel I won’t be able to remember what we talked about without transcribing it.

Practice Based Project: developing tests for incorporating graphics into images (on top of large prints) / gestures suggest movement.

Writing (2500) – AIMS

– Develop an understanding of objectification of models in fashion photography in 2019.

– Explore non-sexual representations of models in fashion photography.

– Develop a new style of analogue photography using research and new techniques.

I developed the photos I will be experimenting with the next couple of weeks.

I took these pictures with the medium format camera (Mamiya) with the help of Fiorella (styling) and Jessi (MUA).

Since the very beginning of my BA I realized the best way to learn how photographers and videographers work was to be in set and observ them working, so I tried to get involved in as many shoots as I could.

I have taken BTS photos for Fiorella’s and Samantha’s films and I will develop the negatives myself tomorrow (will add them to the journal), really excited to see the results. But the main reason why I did it was to learn how their DOPs were filming.

The easiest way to be in set is starting as a runner, which I did and didn’t like; that’s why I tried to get in film sets as the stills photographer. The photos shared below are from different film sets for the last couple of months for Print Room Productions and the fashion news channel CULTED.

I had the opportunity to go to a shoot this morning for a baby magazine at the Conservatory at Barbican. I was not allowed to take any pictures for the blog for obvious reasons but it was a good experience to see how the photographer works with baby models. It was also extremely cute.

Inspirational pictures from Dora Maar exhibition at Tate Modern.

Camera-less photographs. Photograms.

I would also like to share my friend’s reflexion about the curation of the exhibition. Both of us were very surprised about the fact that there were two whole rooms (out of nine) dedicated to Picasso.