Image inspired by JH Engstrom

Above image by JH Engstrom - Trying to dance series.

My own image that has been inspired by Engstroms work.

"JH Engstrom’s Trying to Dance is the body, the self, the essence, the mind… the awareness, the alive… the heart beats… so, the opposite of dead. No, not the opposite… alive but also there is the part of the self that thinks it is dead, the imperfections, the flaws, the pain. The presence, the touch, the feel… the dance. As if looking out from a hardwired view into the head… fragments of nakedness, fragments of touch, cold and hot, the world, the dream that is jammed into the cracks. The structure of this JH work is to paint from the psyche, let the psyche bleed it’s colored memory shards on to your face… feel the drum in your head, in their head, in our heads, feel the smell of the fluids dried on the bed, memories shared, choices shared, the physical, the life… our lives.

Traps of the body…. traps of the head… trying to dance."

Jh Engstrom is a photographer from sweden, i have looked at a piece of his work from the series 'trying to dance'. often uses 5x4 large format cameras but also uses film throw away cameras. He is known for his powerful striking imagery containing nudity, human forms, nature and natural beauty, a lot of his photographs are shocking and very intermit. He uses a lot of soft lighting creating a natural light surrounding creating a neutral feel within his images. The way the images are capture and because of the soft film feel it portrays almost a fragile feel. After looking at his image i decided to take an image inspired by his own image which is referenced above, as he captured a city landscape from afar i though i would capture a view that i see everyday, i shot this image on a very misty and cloudy day which enabled my to capture it as if the image has different tonal layers. I also edited my image adding warmer soft tones and increasing the brightness slightly. I also then crop my image to a 5x4 format procuding a image that would be to scale if printed on large format.

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/03/jh-engstrom-trying-to-dance.html

http://www.vice.com/read/a-chat-with-jh-engstrom

http://www.jhengstrom.com/ex.html

http://www.jhengstrom.com/ttd2.html

http://www.weareoca.com/photography/jh-engstrom-on-becoming-a-photographer/