Openings
What can you see?: In this image You can see a man that appears to be on a phone call. It looks like he is in his living room. this is because you can see some sofas and what looks like a foot rest but could also be a table. We are looking at the man through a window and it seems that the photographer is outside. I believe this because of the way that there is no light on the frame of the window on the outside but on the inside there is. The light on the inside is coming from multiple different angles. From the celling hallway and there is also a lamp in the bottom left corner of the the room. We can also assume that this photograph was taken at night because there’s not any light on the outside window frame. In this image we can also see some paintings that could be something that he made and could be a hobby of the man.
What type of photo is it?: I believe that Shizuka Yokomizo Uses photojournalism with her photographs. I believe this because she doesn’t meet her subjects for that long. What she does is find her subject and send them an anonymous letter. The letter normal reads that she wants them to stand in front of a window inside of their house and the letter also contains a time and date. Then when that day arrives she shows up and sets up her tripod and camera takes the photo then promptly leaves. Her work is somewhat unusual because she doesn’t actually know her subjects and her subjects don’t know her. They just got a letter telling them to stand in front of a window in their house. It is also a little bit freaky because you just get a random person that you don’t know telling you to go somewhere in you house.
How do you think Shizuka Yokomizo created this image?: I think that what happens in the images is all up to the subject. This is for many reasons. One of them being that all she does is send a letter to her subject and doesn’t tell them what to do. only that they should stand in front of a window in there house. Another reason i believe this is because she has no contact with her subject except her letter in which like i said doesn’t contain details about what her subject should do. My final reason for this is because her subject could be doing anything at the time that she sets for the photographs to be taken.
How does this picture make you feel?: this photo makes me feel a bit freaked out. This is because if you are a subject and you randomly get a letter from a random person telling you to stand in front of your window at a certain day and time you would think that it is some weird person that wants to hurt you or something.
If you could talk to the artist, What 3 question would you ask?: one question that i would ask Yokomizo is what made her do this kind of photography. Another question that i would ask is that what did you fell the first time that you done this. My final question would be do people always respond/show up when the time comes.
How does some basic research help you understand the picture and the artists practice? How does your understanding of the picture change/Improve?: After doing some more research about Yokomizo I have came to the realisation that it is not all natural but it is also a bit staged. what i mean is that Yokomizo did have some say and that the background of the people is mostly natural but what they are doing isn’t.
How does this picture relate to the theme Openings?: This images relates to openings because of the window. The window shows an opening between the Subject and Yokomizo.
What type of photo is it?: I believe that Shizuka Yokomizo Uses photojournalism with her photographs. I believe this because she doesn’t meet her subjects for that long. What she does is find her subject and send them an anonymous letter. The letter normal reads that she wants them to stand in front of a window inside of their house and the letter also contains a time and date. Then when that day arrives she shows up and sets up her tripod and camera takes the photo then promptly leaves. Her work is somewhat unusual because she doesn’t actually know her subjects and her subjects don’t know her. They just got a letter telling them to stand in front of a window in their house. It is also a little bit freaky because you just get a random person that you don’t know telling you to go somewhere in you house.
How do you think Shizuka Yokomizo created this image?: I think that what happens in the images is all up to the subject. This is for many reasons. One of them being that all she does is send a letter to her subject and doesn’t tell them what to do. only that they should stand in front of a window in there house. Another reason i believe this is because she has no contact with her subject except her letter in which like i said doesn’t contain details about what her subject should do. My final reason for this is because her subject could be doing anything at the time that she sets for the photographs to be taken.
How does this picture make you feel?: this photo makes me feel a bit freaked out. This is because if you are a subject and you randomly get a letter from a random person telling you to stand in front of your window at a certain day and time you would think that it is some weird person that wants to hurt you or something.
If you could talk to the artist, What 3 question would you ask?: one question that i would ask Yokomizo is what made her do this kind of photography. Another question that i would ask is that what did you fell the first time that you done this. My final question would be do people always respond/show up when the time comes.
How does some basic research help you understand the picture and the artists practice? How does your understanding of the picture change/Improve?: After doing some more research about Yokomizo I have came to the realisation that it is not all natural but it is also a bit staged. what i mean is that Yokomizo did have some say and that the background of the people is mostly natural but what they are doing isn’t.
How does this picture relate to the theme Openings?: This images relates to openings because of the window. The window shows an opening between the Subject and Yokomizo.