Tag: Christopher Day

Christopher Day – New Reading Order

When I visited the Centre for Contemporary Photography , Christopher’s photos catch my eyes. The  alternative processing techniques he used in exhibition is collage. The whole photos are black and white tone.These six pictures present are my favorite. At the first , i can’t really understand about these photos, then i read the article on the wall. It said there is no exactly meaning of these photos, but need the viewer have their own reading of these photos. Christopher may have a lot of reading through these collage in his mind. All of these college photos are from his own photos. The artist focus on the link between everything. He said that he start adding information to introduce an artificial language, like a documentary would, blurring fiction and reality. And he also know to deep the things which have history. He also said his collage could be from a personal experience, a comment, a part of a movie – or practically anything. Viewers may not get the reference, but hopefully they will have a own idea about his photos.

As i do the collage photos before, i like combine different materials in a idea too. So the way of i doing collage is very similar to Christopher. And in his way, I can learn more about where can i find these ideas and how can i have ideas, it is really important to link everything together. And i think the collage which take materials from myself is really interesting. It need you to have a carefully look of the things around you or find out some, and combine them together. It is a real challenge for artists to do these things, but it increase the collage’s interests. I real wanna have a try in future, combining things or ideas together and using own photos to create a collage photo. It will let photos more meaningful.