Ashley Selbe Senior Portfolio: Sunday Aritsts A Selbe 9.6.09 Flickr research

When I get really tired of searching the internet for artists, I turn to flickr.com. All of us know what flickr is; a kind of community where all different types of photograph, good or bad, exist in one place. I sift through the images, all of the over photoshopped images and generic “365: 1 photo a day” projects, to find something more real. In relation to the diptychs I am planning on doing, I searched “diptych” on flickr.com. The search results were a mixer of crazy colors and some interesting comparisons. One diptych was of a farmer digging up potatoes and potato salad. The most interesting images are ones that have similar patterns within both images.

So my most recent search on flickr.com brought me to Doug Chinnery. He is a photographer from England and he works in wedding photography, and various different types of landscapes. I was looking for inspiration for the calm side of my diptychs. And a few of his photographs were inspiring to me.

I really like the way he used time to smooth out the water in the two water images. I think that it is a physical evidence of the calming of the "water" or a situation. I think that paired with the right image this could really express the feelings of being in a calm place. I also really liked the image of a plant growing up the brick wall. The color contrast between the green and the red brick is really interesting.

I really like these images and even though i haven't found an artist who is working with a concept like mine yet, I can imagine putting images like these with others that i find.