Exercise: Evidence of Action

For this exercise, you were asked to produce one photograph in which it can be seen that something has happened. As a suggestion, included in the photograph something that has either been broken, or emptied.

For this, I looked again at the work of Gregory Crewdson, and Jeff Wall.

Gregory Crewdson

Jeff Wall (The destroyed room 1978)

With both of these images, they show a ‘mess’ and items which are ‘broken’. Taking influence from these images, I decided to photograph a cupcake which had been half eaten but made to look ‘broken’ or ‘torn apart’ .

I decided to use a spot lamp with a diffuser for this image, as I wanted a strong yellow colour from the icing, but I didn’t want the photograph itself to be too exposed.