1 min 1 image: Sara Hedgren

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Sara Hedgren

Sara Hedgren
Katerina Plotnikova, "Untitled"
2012, Russia

After looking into the artist's work I was completely breathless. Katerina works with the elements of nature, gothic horror, surrealism and supernatural and occult concepts.The photo I have chosen really speaks to me; the palette is beautiful and I love the way the photographer uses natural light and an additional light source to create some kind of eerie mystical, dreamy feeling. The artist have captured the mystical and magical feeling that can be found in deep in the Swedish forests and maybe that is why I love it so much. The photograph tells a story that can be told in many ways. The surrealism and the mythical fairytale is something that captures me. At first the photo felt threatening to me but the more I look at it the more I sense calmness in it.

ABOUT

This blog was inspired by the 1 Image 1 Minute written column in X-TRA and subsequent live iterations of the project by Micol Hebron. The inspiration for the 1 Image 1 Minute column was a similar project produced by Belgian director Agnès Varda (and later written about by Rosalind Krauss) for French television in 1983.

For this blog (and their assignment), students in Niku Kashef's photography classes are asked to select a photograph (that they did not make) that inspires or intrigues them in some way and to speak about it for exactly 1 minute (roughly 150 written words). Students post their name, the artists' name, title of the photograph, year the photograph was made and the medium along with their ~150 words.

In the second part of the assignment, students are asked to either use the image they chose to speak to OR a new image and make an inspiration image based on the photographic/2d design aspects of that image (eg direction/type of light, perspective, depth of field, focus, color palate, etc).

To add to this blog and contribute a post, please contact niku(at)csun(dot)edu