A number of years ago I was walking down a leafy country lane near Warter in East Yorkshire when a car approached me driving very slowly. The car had a very odd bull horn on the front. The apparition approached and past at a snails pace. I glanced in the car and thought I recognized the passenger.

Turns out this was David Hockney making a piece of film for the Royal Acadamy. The strange apparatus on the front was in fact a rack of cameras. Nine in total all catching a different perspective of the same scene which when combined fools your brain into seeing one image.

Hockney then presented the video on 36 55 inch screens. I don’t have those resources so will have to change my version.

This experience came back to me when I read the brief for this exercise. We have a very picturesque wooded lane near to where we live. This lane appears to be stable so I would be interested in its transition through the year. A year which will be massive in Europe’s history. Whatever happens within our exit from Europe the lane will stay the same.

I spend my spare time Diving and doing so we use transits to ensure we return to the correct area of seabed. I can use these to ensure I take my exposures from the same place. I took three transits and noted them in my notebook.

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Landscapes are usually 3:2 ratio so if I take my shots as square it will give a unit of 1. So 3 along the top with 3 along the bottom will give the 3:2 ratio required. Each completed photo will take 6 exposures. I aim to completed one every month so 12×6=72 photos to complete the set.

Whilst they are of the same scene they are not a stitch so wont be exact. Hopefully this will make the brain fill in the scene giving a similar effect to the one Hockney achieved in his work.

Thinking about presenting the work for assessment it may work in a high quality photobook format. Printed as large as possible. I usually put captions with my work however it may be interesting to use the headline of the day to record what happened in the media on the day each exposure was completed.

So below is my first attempt at this work eleven to go.

References

Hockney, David. Four Seasons 2011. 2011. Digital Colour Video. Royal Academy London.