Multimedia photography involves using more than one medium to create an image, such as painting over a photograph. This creates a textured collage effect. The document describes examples by artist Maureen Gubia who used paint and digital techniques over photographs. Scanography creates photographs using a photocopier by leaving the lid up while scanning to distort images of objects or people placed far from the scanner. Examples show clear images of objects on the scanner surface and blurred distortions of objects farther away.

1. Multimedia Photography-
Multimedia Photography is the use of more than one
media to create an image. This could involve painting
over a photograph. You could use fabric or paper
over the photograph. This technique creates a
textured, collage type effect. This first image
demonstrates the multimedia photography
technique. From the image, it looks as if the artist
Maureen Gubia has used paint and perhaps some
pencil over the top of the photograph. She has used
white and blue paints, and lots of different brush
strokes to create added texture. The second image
was also created by artist Maureen Gubia. She has
created a repetitive pattern over one half of the
image. This was probably by using photoshop or
another digital technique. It also looks as if she may
have added some white paint to the image. As some
of the white paint overlaps onto the black boarder,
she may have printed out the photograph and stuck
it onto a black surface.
Photography by Maureen Gubia

2. If I were to use the multimedia method myself, I would want to use paint over my photographs. I
would try not to use too much paint in order to not distract from the original image. I would like
to experiment with adding extra texture and dimension to the image by folding them, creasing
them and crinkling them up. I like this idea as it would distort my images without needing to use
photoshop. I could consider using fabric or paper over the top of my image, or as a boarder to
create nice textures. I could also paint the fabric or card I use, and if I use a method such as
paint splattering or a sponge I could give the image another dimension. If I were to use this
method I would probably photograph people or scenery. I think it would look good to use
images of peoples faces as I could distort their features by printing off the image and folding it
up.

4. Scanography-
Scanography is the way of creating photographs by using a
photocopier. It can enable you to create interesting
distorted images, or perfect images or patters using objects
under the scanner. By leaving the scanners lid up white
scanning, and having your objects or people far away it can
create distorted, slightly blurry images. By having
something moving around on the scanners surface it can
create interesting distortion, and you can see the
movement clearly on the image. My first example of the
girl and the flowers, you can see that everything that is
laying flat on the scanners surface is seen clearly, and
everything further away is blurred. My second example is
of a rat walking across the scanners surface. In the image
you can see exactly where the rat has walked. The rats feet
have been multiplied over the image and some of the
edges have been distorted outwards and blurred.
Photograph by Whitney Justesen
Photograph by Dorota Pankowska

5. If I were to use the Scanography method I would like to use animals as I think that their
movement looks really interesting when using this technique. Movement when using the
scanography method creates repetitive patterns, blurring and elongation of features. In order to
capture an image on a scanner, the subject matter has to be on the screen or facing down
towards the screen. Making a person or animal look down at the screen would make their face
appear distorted. Another thing I would consider doing is moving objects for myself across the
scanners surface. If the object I used had bright colours it may create a very interesting pattern.
Though one problem with doing that is that you may be able to see me moving the object in the
background.