Adam Hale
ADAM HALE:
Adam Hale is a designer and collage artist based in west London who publishes his work under the Daily Spice, however he started his career in 2015 when he would publish his work on Instagram as a creative outlet. After studying Graphic design at the University for Creative Arts, Adam Hale began to collect in 2015, collecting those which were freely available on his daily commute and began to work on his graphic design projects in his spare time experimenting with analogue collage.
Initially, Adam Hale collages inspire a sense of wonder . It emanates a strange form of almost organic beauty, due to the way in which he has blended tsort of image that has been created through his manipulation of the camera and light. The use of vibrant yet almost antique and aged lights and colours, creates what I believe to be joyful sorrow, as although the composition alongside the choices of colour do not lead to this conclusion, I do feel as though there is a depth to the images, within which there is some sort of sadness that has been captured within them. In hindsight this could also have been caused by the darkness that surrounds the subject of the images.
Within Gjon Mili's work, light is the vocal point of all the photographs he has taken, it has consistently been the subject and focus of the art he has created. This is prevalent not only in his work of light drawings but also in is images where he manipulates the lighting of the room in order to capture multiple static images within the same photographs in order to capture some overall movement. Within the work of Light Drawings Gjon Mili has used light of varying hues and brightness in order to draw and image into the air, which was then captured by the camera. This was enabled by Mili's manipulation of the formal elements alongside the utilisation of his knowledge of the camera stemming from his many years of study. In terms of light and focus, the only parts of the image in which there is any light is from the light drawing itself. Generally speaking this is the only presence of light within the photograph, everything surrounding it being negative space filled with darkness and thus it is hard to distinguish whether anything other than the light is in focus. Despite this I believe that Gjon Mili has used a higher aperture level as this would enable the entirety of the light drawing to be in focus, especially since in many cases they are ample distance away from the camera. Furthermore, due to the nature of Gjon Mili' drawings being created by light and captured by the camera after a certain amount of time through the manipulation of the shutter speed, most if not all of his photographs rest within the 2 dimensional plane and whilst they feature a great variation of lines yet they still indicate some sort of movement. Despite my mention of the variation, it is still true that they are mostly geometric, in that they lack true curves and are on the most part thin.
Gjon Mili seems to prefer a monochromatic colour pallete, and whilst this is true there are still ample amounts of examples where he has made use of varying colours to create differing effects, maybe even to inspire different emotions. Furthermore the images have different depths depending on which you look at, some seem to be very shallow, however there are many in which you can see a distinct foreground and background due to the addition of Gjon Mili being kept visible within the background. The texture of the images would seem to be soft, as there is no suggestion they they would be course or rough in any way due to the nature of the composition and props themselves.
As previously mentioned it would seem that Gjon Mili has made use of a higher aperture and shutter speed in order to capture his light drawings in complete focus and just to capture them as this would not be possible with a low shutter speed. Furthermore it seems to be somewhat overexposed, however this might come as a necessity due the the way in which there seems to be only one light source in each composition. Moreover it would seem that he has made use of a lower ISO as the image is clear and does not have any noise to it.
Gjon Mili's work seems to be similar to that of Mari Mahr in that he also has stuck to a monochromatic colour pallete, yet he is probably more easily comparable to artists such as Michael Ross, as light is also the primary focus within his work, albeit his focuses more on vibrant and strange colour combinations which contain many lights within them.
Gjon Mili's work inspires a certain sorrow within me specifically, and this might not only stem from the work itself but also due to the fact that many would have been made towards the end of his lifetime. However maybe spurred on from this, I believe that this makes the joy from these pieces resonate even more with me due through its juxtaposing nature to my initial emotions. These works however, certainly are enjoyable and quite interesting to behold.
Contact Sheet
My photoshoot turned out adequate as I ensured to stick to the instructions I left for myself in my photoshoot plan, including the fact that I needed to pay attention to the different angles that I was taking my images from, to ensure that I had enough variety when it came to my images, as this was an issue that I encountered with my other artists. Furthermore I decided that I should have a strong idea of what my work would look like beforehand and took pictures with this in mind as I found that with my other artists my raw images would often not enabe me to do some of the edits that I wanted to try out.
First Developments
For these developments, in order to create these what I decided would be the best way to create a digital collage was to base them first on the material that I could find in magazines or newspapers in order to create a digital collage. I would find different images I found interesting, take images of them and then use them in my developments. For many of these in order to create them I would first decide on the variation of edit that I would create and then erase the parts of the image that I decide and allow for the collage material to be there. Often for these, in order to ensure that the lines and curves were the smoothest I could make them, or that only specifically what I wanted was in the image, I would erase the different parts pixel by pixel. In the future I will have to get a wider range of images from the newspaper as one of the difficulties I encountered was the limitations of the edits I could make simply because there was not enough different images I could use.
Highlighting Success
These are my most successful developments, and i believe this
Second Developments
For these images, I changed the contrast and saturation of my first developments. I took inspiration from my first artist, Jesse Draxler, and the way in which it made my images more successful, not only because that is what the artist required, but also because the much more obvious contrast in the lighter and darker tones would make the work much more bold and compulsive. I also believe that for some of these images, because of the monochromatic colour scheme the emotions of the faces are brought out much more, either because the colours compliment the negative emotions portrayed, or the contrast between the serene, happier face and the dull hues made them much more obvious.
Highlighting success
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These are my multiple exposure edits. To achieve these I layered images that i thought would compliment each other on-top of each other, moving their positions to where i thought they would be more interesting, and then I would change the blending option in order to achieve different results, including different textures or completely different images from the original work. For many of them, I believe that they were successful because of how the double exposure added different faces and the different angles that the faces were facing made them much more intruiging.
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