Week Seven - Preparing for the next exhibition

This week all we had to do was chose an image from an exhibition we like (if we didn't attend the workshop) or chose one of our own (if we did attend the workshop and rather presented our own work), and write about the process that had gone into creating the image.
I went with my earlier idea and chose one of my own images. The final result looks something like this:

We had been given a template to work with so that everyone's result would look more or less the same, and printed them in A3 for the gallery. The exhibition was put up the week after on the Monday.

I also did some more research into Cyanotypes and Argyrotypes this week. I found a book in our library which showed few examples from several photographers. Out of the photographers mentioned in the book I preferred the work by Anna Atkins, who is often called the first woman photographer.

Examples for Anna Atkins:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital_dev/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=col_id%3A188&sScope=images&sLabel=Ocean%20Flowers%3A%20Anna%20Atkins%27s%20
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http://thecraftbegins.com/wordpress/tag/anna-atkins/

I find her work interesting, because her cyanotypes are some of the earliest ones there are. It's interesting to see that this process is still being used and that her images, even though they were only early days then, were already of such good quality and were used for scientific research. She has obviously gained quite a reputation as "the first woman photographer", and I can see why.

Also, here are some of my other results from the workshop: