Nir Arieli is a contemporary fine art photographer who focuses on capturing movement through layered images and long exposures of dancing. John Stezaker is a historical photographer who creates collages by combining found images, such as combining portrait photographs with landscape images placed over faces. Luca Biada is a contemporary landscape photographer whose work is edited through heavy post-production to look like miniature worlds.

1. Different Artists (Task 1)
Hayley Roberts

2. Nir Arieli
• Nir Arieli is a contemporary, fine art photographer and his images focus on dancing and also on portraits as he captures the
movement and layers up images that he has taken to show movement in several ways. He chose to focus his ideas around
dance because he observes dancing constantly and it simply fascinates him overall and he likes the gentleness which is
portrayed in his photographs. He is a contemporary photographer as his work is modern and his work is non-traditional as
post-production is used throughout some of his images. His images are classed as experimental because of the way he
expresses movement and how he uses post-production to achieve this fits in with experimental photography. His work has
appeared in Fine Art galleries in NYC and his work has also appeared in a few magazines, such as, Kaltbult magazine and in a
few other Fine Art magazines.
• To achieve the method he uses to create the layered effect is all based on post-production (Photoshop). So this can be done
by collecting a series of images taken after each other and then opened up in Photoshop. When the photos have been
opened they are all placed over the top of each image and then the opacity of the images that have been placed over the
top are then turned down so they aren’t overpowering and then all the different positions can be seen. To achieve this
method in a more traditional way, is by using a film scanner and while the original photo is being scanned, placing different
images over the top will create a double exposure effect. He also takes images of movement and tries to capture it as it’s
happening. So for example, in one of his images there are a lot of people falling backwards and so to capture the movement
of them falling back he will have left his camera with a longer shutter speed on a tripod so when they fall back the
movement of them falling is captured and this creates quite a blurred outline to the figures.

4. John Stezaker
• John Stezaker is a historical photographer who uses very traditional methods to create his images. His images all focus on
various relationships and he documents the truth and purveyor of memories by creating collages with images found in
books, magazines and even postcards and then he uses them as ‘readymades’. His series ‘Marriage’ focuses on the concept
of portraiture and uses images of classic film stars to recreate different interpretations of them. He also has a series called
‘Masks’ which are portrait images with another image over the top of the models face of landscapes. One of his images
which is called ‘Mask XIII’ and it involves a unidentified actress from the 1940’s and a coloured photograph is placed on top
of the image and it is of a ruined stone building and its turned upside down to interpret the image like her face is broken and
empty (e.g. the darkened arches represent where her eye sockets are). His work was nominated for a photography prize in
2012 at the Photographer’s Gallery in London. A book about him has also been produced and his work is shown in it.
• This method is really simple the traditional way or the more non-traditional way as it doesn’t take long to achieve at all. To
do it the traditional way that John Stezaker did it, it involves getting a postcard or image from a book that he has taken and
then cut up another image and place it over the top and make it line up as even as possible and cut it up any way possible
(for example, he cut up images in a triangle shape or square shape to make it different)). Then for the postcard/portrait
images he got an image that looked similar to a facial shape and then place the postcard over the top and take the pictures
manually and this is the method. Now you could do it using Photoshop and it would give the same effect as doing it the
traditional way but it would take a little longer doing it the non-traditional way. To do it the non-traditional way, you would
take an image of the portrait photograph or scan it and then take an image of the postcard. You would then place both
images in Photoshop and crop the images so they would fit together and then make sure one image is on top of the other
image so they overlap.

6. Luca Biada
• Luca Biada is a contemporary, non-traditional photographer, who’s work is all based on post-production. His work is all
based on landscapes and then edited so that they look like mini worlds. His work is not classed as traditional because he
uses a lot of post-production to achieve his images and he is a modern photographer so that’s why he isn’t classed as a
historical photographer. His work has appeared in a show called ‘Blood’ which his work was included in and the show was
all based on dance but included photographer’s artwork. But apart from that he hasn’t had any books out or appeared in any
galleries so his work must be at a starting point for him. I find his work really interesting because it’s interpreting different
everyday images that may be simple and he is changing them and making them a lot more interactive and extraordinary and
it is a really easy method to achieve.
• To achieve this method, means using Photoshop and a lot of post production as this method would be too difficult using
traditional methods. In Photoshop it can be achieved in two ways. The first way is getting any image and cropping it
horizontally so your left with half of the image. You then go into ‘Image’ then click ‘Image size’ and ‘Constrain Proportions’
needs to be unmarked and the height and width need to be the same (e.g. both 1063 pixels). Then rotate the canvas to 180*
so it’s upside down and then go into ‘Filter’ and into ‘Distort’ then click ‘Polar Coordinates’ and select ‘Rectangular to polar’.
Then rotate the image back and with this process there can be some lines and failures so using the ‘Clone Stamp’ you can
mess around and get rid of the failures. The second method is to use a panoramic image and make the width and height
again the same and rotate the image 180*. Then apply the ‘Polar Coordinates’ again and remove the failures that have
appeared and by missing out the first few steps and skipping straight to the ‘Polar Coordinates’ step and not rotating the
image, it creates a completely different effect.