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Polaroid Portraits
Last weekend I was fortunate to be asked by Shape Arts to work with them on a one day residency as part of the Liberty Festival in Stratford. I’ve done portrait sessions at events before – see here but I […]
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Nosferatu
Thanks to John for being my guinea pig for a practice session in the studio. The idea was to use one light (a narrow soft box) from the side and use my Lensbaby for the tilt-shift effect. I wanted the […]
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Polaroids Lifts
Spent the morning at the Photographer’s Gallery with Heinz from Impossible learning how to do a Polaroid emulsion lift. This is the process we went through: Use a craft knife (X-ACTO etc) to cut along the back and bottom of […]
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Breaking Pictures – Broken Camera
As I continue my travels with my broken camera I have been looking for more images that contain text – billboards, advertisements and included here, weather-worn canvases covering some old fishing boats that have faded words and numbers. I like […]
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They rode on…
I’m reading Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant and very brutal Blood Meridian at the same time as I created this image from a light leak at the end of a 35mm film roll. The two seemed to fit together. The line “They […]
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Breaking Pictures – Pixel Portraits
Have found the positioning I’m happy with and have added the corresponding hexadecimal colour code to each of the large pixels. I think this has the right balance between emphasising that this is a digital construct and being an interesting […]
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Breaking Pictures – Pixel Portraits
I’m interested in how digital images are really algorithms, working with code. This code could be interpreted in multiple ways – a song, a video, an image etc. It’s just one and zeros existing as electronic impulses on a memory […]
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Breaking Pictures – Billboards 2
Somewhere in this mess of ripped billboards there lies a hidden message. The layers of time worn away to reveal something secret. Maybe.
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Digital Feedback
Been thinking about the digital world we live in. Every time I get on the train I look around and see practically every person engaging in some way with their phone: listening to music, playing games, checking email, some even […]
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Breaking Pictures – Deliberate Glitches 2
Continuing on from my attempts to deliberately break or glitch images I’ve been looking at how digital files are downloaded and what happens when some of the data is missing. Torrent sites host illegal downloads of movies, software, music etc […]
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Q & A on Shape blog
Some questions that were put to me re residency at the Shape Gallery. https://www.shapearts.org.uk/blog/mark-tamer-blog
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Breaking Pictures – Deliberate Glitches
I’ve been manipulating the inner workings of images for a while. Essentially, it’s a digital image that I have opened up in a hex editor, changed the code around and then resaved. For these portraits I thought it would interesting […]