Level 2 - Bill Brant

This project explores the lessons I took from Simon Ellingworth's challenge based on the work of Bill Brant. Rather than attempting to imitate Brant's photographs, I was inspired by his ability to see the ordinary as something fresh, strange and poetic. The centrepiece of this project is a series of landscapes created from nothing more than piles of flour. Through careful lighting, viewpoint and monochrome processing they become mountains, glaciers and moonlit scenes, inviting the viewer to question their first impression. Familiar objects lose their identity and take on an entirely new meaning. The remaining images continue this exploration through form, shadow, texture and atmosphere, seeking beauty in everyday subjects and encouraging a more subjective way of seeing. The project is less about recording reality than about transforming it, discovering how imagination can emerge from the simplest of materials. The challenge taught me to look beyond what an object is, and instead ask what it might become.