Jay Tapp: Light

Proposal Update

By discovering Paul Politis, I completely changed the style that my project will be shot. Paul specializes in black and white photography that would work well at night. This then gave me the idea of a contrasted style series of photos, where all my photos were black and white and were taken at night. I wanted to portray the areas of Wellington where during the night, the light source would give off an emotional kind of feeling to it, showing this through light and such things as patterns, shapes and shadows. Most of my images I plan to be still life but I am contemplating including light trails in a couple photos as well, just to show the street side of Wellington and how the light from the street is contrasted from the background, which I'm hoping is just plain black. My main idea was that at night, the walk from the centre of town to the waterfront is always an interesting journey itself. I realized how the light source was very minimal in some parts but yet shined onto a certain part of the area/objects. For example a lone street light in the middle of a car park just shining down on one spot.

Precedents and Research

Paul Politis