Where The Wild Things Are

Where the wild things are

Last night I watched where the wild things are to further my research into the idea of blending reality and a dream world. Max finds himself ignored and let down by family and escapes from reality to find an island where he is made king of characters who tower over him. As king he promises to keep everyone happy and through the film comes to realise that you cannot keep everyone happy and goes on a journey which makes the viewer consider their own experiences and look back at their childhood and path.

Andrew Burton - Childhood

This work addresses the development of children considering generational changes. He observed that children are being forced to grow up faster and I feel his work portrays this by showing the children in situations which they are too immature for. The work shows the children in fantasy explorations saying to the viewer that parents try to shelter their children.

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Caitlin     

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson is a very famous photographer known for making high budget and complex sets, obviously I cannot afford to work with a huge crew and get access to the equipment that he can but I intend to gain inspiration from his sets on ideas of lighting to create mood. I also like how his images are often about what you don't see.

Simen Johan

On the topic of dreams and wishes there are aspects from all of these images which I find relevant and take inspiration from. The children playing in mud I find really interesting as when we were children, being allowed to play in mud would not be allowed by our parents yet it is a dream to be covered in mud and eating worms like haribo. The bottom image looks like a dream catcher and the setting in the large isolated attic I find interesting as a potential location for a shot.

Wishes and Dreams

Researching through hundreds of photos I have realise a nice subject for my project will be dreams and wishes. This will not play so much on surreal but still work with imagination and the unreal.

Patricia Piccinini

Searching through blogs i came across the website for Patricia Piccinini and her husband who work as practitioners. I was mainly interested in Patricia who is a sculptor and photographer who has made peculiar images of children snuggling up to odd, walrus looking creatures.

Developmental Psychology

Thinking of Simen johan's imagery I started to think about why he thinks children have the dark thoughts so started to look at child psychology and found the obvious link to wikipedia which gave me a broad outline of the topic. I'm not keen on photographing children but rather teens and adults so I looked at the broad topic of Developmental Psychology. You can find the link to the wiki page here. I intend to read around the topic throughout this topic and then relate it to a darker side.

Simen Johan

For the last few years the work I find I have always been looking back at and becoming more and more fancinated with is the work of Simen Johan, he is a swedish photographer and the work that mainly facinated me was the work he did of children and their thoughts and darker sides. http://www.simenjohan.com