One of the tasks we were given was to search for a journal article either online or in the library that had some of interest to us. I chose to do some searching online and when looking on the British Journal of photography, I came across this article written by Izabella Radwanska Zhang.
http://www.bjp-online.com/2018/08/group-projects-obsolete-discontinued/
The reason this article interested me was mainly by the images that were created from the darkroom papers. However, taking time to read over and discuss it in class made me realise that although it may have been a boring subject, I was somehow still interested in the idea that these images were processed on materials that had been alive for decades. I loved the connection that was created between the old and new.
It was brought up in discussion that this article is hard to grasp; it was argued that the article would have more influence if we could hold the images in our hands and get a feel for the materials rather than looking online. I had to disagree, as a part of a generation surrounded by technology, you can only look at this as a positive. We have so much more access to images around the world through means such a JPEG that we can still connect with the image and the context behind it, without having to hold it in our hands or stand in front of the original version.
Although this article is something that may not have an influence on my process in terms of my project brief, I enjoyed the concept of merging the old and new together to form a creative piece of art.
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