Anneka Douglas

My day at the Photographers’ gallery was definitely an experience to talk about! It was full of insightful work, one of which I was particularly intrigued with.

Joachim Schmid, born in 1955, is very known for cutting up or slicing and re-arranging found belongings. In ‘Found’, he has been quoted as doing this since the early 1980s.

I saw an array of unrelated photographs from shredded magazine covers all jumbled up to photos of a lady positioned in a sexual manner which clearly was unintended to be seen and was thrown away in perhaps… a dustbin! – which made me look deeply at other photographs; some negatives from passport photos of people from which in his early days he would collect from a booth?!

How evasive!! Where is the justice in that or is it just my opinion????

This work is different and unique but very intrusive as there are some personal things displayed without the permission of the person so in a sense I think that is a little disrespectful, but hey, creative he must be as he’s in the gallery??!

The National Portrait Gallery was another day to remember. I was impressed with the work there. It was very unique and diverse. There was lots of pictures that reflected emotions. The idea consisted of sexuality and beauty and even fame. It all highlighted the relationship between fashion and celebrities.

I very much enjoyed going to the gallery and museums and seeing and learning how powerful paintings/ portraits can be, especially as a lot of images captured feelings and emotions.

Some images were hard to draw up a conclusion to what it was trying to suggest, especially one I recall which was a woman naked with just wire tightly, painfully squeezed around her body. I picked up pain, suffocation, sorrow… which then led my mind to wander.

I think the museum was an interesting and controversial place. It held a picture of a controversial “Kate Moss” alongside her junkie lover, using class A drugs, possession of class A drugs and performances of a sexual nature – yet she’s named a ROLE MODEL – what has this society come to?!

I would say though for anyone to attend as it’s very creative and an eye-catcher for all.

Anneka Douglas

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