Drunk Work
Drunk work is something that doesn't happen very often, but when it does the results are always quite interesting.
The camera usually comes out because it makes for brilliant and interesting photo opportunities when you are under the influence of booze. You'll find that the images are quite Raw, in-filtered and true to what you are currently photographing.
Usually, I don't bother photographing people, since I find most images that people take to be quite in-appealing and they all seem the same after a while. In my opinion, something else needs to be done in order to create a more interesting photograph, and I somehow came up with the idea of being under the influence of Alcohol in order to capture something that's interesting to me personally.
It isn't quite the people that I capture that interests me, it's the lighting and light effects that appear whilst I'm slightly swaying/moving and whilst the shutter speed is slowed down due to it being quite dark.
Many of the drunk images that are capture are also of other people who are also intoxicated, creating more movement for my camera to capture. To me these images are overall just quite interesting,, I've never used them within my own main studio practices and I've never taken them any further than this, but to me, they speak for themselves.
Camp.
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Camp is a small series of three, the images are taken at a campsite in the peak district that we where staying at for just a night or two. Everyone was drunk the night that I attempted to take photographs, these three images where the best three out of the collection and where actually the clearest images out of all of them.
Captured in 2017, I used the images as a main reference within my Studio Module at the time, but unfortunately never came back to using them as much as I thought I would.
At the time I was working with the stereotype of students drinking, and having some sort of problem with alcohol consumption; with these photographs I've done the opposite, and worked with an older generation of drinkers who do exactly the same as students, but still think that the students have some kind of issue.
Very contradicting.
Town.
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Captured in 2017, the Derby City Centre became a drunken light show. Whilst having a casual night in, drinking with friends, we decided to venture out and find a Pizza place, whilst walking through town, I decided to capture the moment.
These photos, to me, represent what it visually feels like to be under the influence of Alcohol and be in a public space. The light blurs resemble the motion of swaying, the camera movements whilst I was walking created a distortion affect which worked very well with the final images and the final outcome.
I definitely achieved the effect that I was hoping to get when I took these images, to further the work, I was also going to produce a project on alcoholism and the lasting effects that regular consumers will suffer from. Unfortunetly, that project never developed, but I still reference these images within some of the work I do now.
Night Out.
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These images where captured at my student halls of residence in 2018, the idea was to use the lighting of the outdoors and the slow shutter speed to take images that either represented how people see others when drunk, or, how people see others when under the influence of certain drugs. I do feel like I should of taken more of these images, since some of them came out great, whilst others did not.
The images where then taken further, and I used them within my own studio practice at the time.
Before taking these images, I did reference the other series of photographs titled "Town". I drew inspiration from those to the blurred lighting effects and the way that my own movements captured distortion within the images. With the shutter speed slowed down, and my friends highly intoxicated, I managed to get some really brilliant references for my main studio module at the time.
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I also chose the location of halls due to the communal atmosphere there, it's a common miss-conception that all students do is drink and go on nights out, and by creating this series of photographs, I've filled that stereotype nicely.