This is my response to my photographer Jen Rinaldi. This photograph is of an angel holding a book in one arm with the other arm in the air. The angel has had one of it hands removed. I think the mood of this photograph is sadness. The facial expression that the angel has looks quite sad and the fact it has had it's hand cut off makes it look even more sad. The angel statue is central to the photograph. the background is the sky which is very grey and abissmal and then some tree's behind the statue. The background is out of focus.

I like this photograph because the sky was grey but it was quite bright this would usually meant that the statue would be a sillouette but all the features are clear on the angel.

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These are some more of my graveyard photographs.

I went to a graveyard in the city centre to get some pictures for my response to my third photographer Jen Rinaldi. These are just some of the photographs I have taken.

I have chosen to study Jen Rinaldi because her cemetery photographs are linked to my question, Nursery Rhymes.  Nursery rhymes make harsh subjects less serious. This was to teach children about harsh subjects. Having a beautiful statue in a graveyard makes being in a graveyard less upsetting because some of them are beautiful. The content of this photograph is a gravestone with Russian writing carved on it. On top of the stone is a cross carved out of stone. The mood of this photograph is togetherness. I don’t read Russian but I’m guessing that the two people’s faces that have been carved on the stone are related or married and they have been buried together.

The Gravestone is central to the photograph and in the background there are more gravestones. This photograph is monotone. There aren’t any bright or lively colours. The colours used are black and white. I would like to use the colour theme element in this photograph in my own work.

I like this photograph because unless you know Russian you don’t know anything about the people that have been buried. This makes me think about how they know each other and if they are buried together they were obviously inseparable.

I have chosen to study Tiffany White because her photographs are hidden. This links to my question of Nursery Rhymes because often they are very secretive. In this photograph there is a small green building in the middle of nowhere. The mood of this photograph is loneliness. The building looks like it is in the middle of an open area surrounded by a forest.  This building would be very hard to come across and it also looks abandoned. The building is bright green and yellow so it makes the photograph very contrasting, it also makes the building stick out. I would like to use the emotion of this photograph in my work.

 I like this photograph because the building is very eye catching because it’s very bright, however even though it is eye catching not many people would find this building easily. Another reason I like it is because I’m not sure what the building is used for, why it was built or who built it. It makes me think about why the building is there.

Sarolta Ban's work  is very unusual so i'm studiying her for my project on Nursery Rhymes. In this  photograph there is a picture of a wolf howling at the moon but the moon has replaced the face of a red alarm clock. I think that the alarm clock having a moon inside of it is really clever; it is like an alarm clock for the wolf that tells it when the moon is out. The mood given off by this photograph is mild. The photograph isn’t boring but it isn’t very exciting.
The alarm clock is central to the photograph but it isn’t slap bang in the middle.  The red alarm clock stands out from the dark grey and black background but the photograph as a whole isn’t very contrasting. One element I will be using from this photograph is the colour palette and the other element is the fact that the photograph is heavily edited.

I have chosen to study Jen Rinaldi because her photographs show the beautiful side of death. I think they show this because the statues she photographs are beautiful but they are put in a place that some people hat to go to.

This photograph is of a statue that has been made to look like a woman holding a small child. Behind the statue is a soft toy from the T.V show Spongebob Squarepants. I think the mood that this photograph gives of is happiness. Seeing a gravestone of a loved one would obviously make someone upset but the statue would make it seem less depressing, but I think that the toy was put on the statue by a child, seeing this on a gravestone of a loved one would cheer me up.

The statue is the main focus of the photograph, it’s not till the whole photograph is looked at till you see the toy which is obviously a surprise. The photograph isn’t very colourful, even the toy is quite dirty even though it should be bright yellow.  I think that this photograph seems to brighten up a horrible subject and this is the element I would like to take from this photographer.

I really like this photograph because a toy isn't something you would see on a statue in a graveyard. I really hate the T.V show Spongebob Squarepants but i think that a child putting one of their toys on a gravestone statue of someone they know is a very beautiful idea.