Photo Remix
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"A Change of Pace", by Sabrina Schellkes
I was delighted when I came across this photograph, at how simple and classy Broadway Avenue (in Palmerston North) appeared in 1940. I set out to take a photograph at the exact same position the origina image was captured and was taken aback by how much it has changed. Not only different architecturally, but there also appears to be a significantly different philosophy to how businesses advertise and the over all presentation of the street. There is a complete change of pace between the era's and it seemed appropriate to capture this suggestion through having the images integrated into one another. I hope this image wills you into pondering about your 'change of pace' and has you reminiscing about how it used to be.
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"A Tale of Three Cities", by Casey Carsel
This entry won a student prize sponsored by DigitalNZ
I'd like to leave the image up to the viewer's own interpretation, but I will say it's about the importance of buildings to the culture of our cities and how much it can mean, but compared with how much it should mean. I think a particularly interesting part of my image is how long it takes people to realize that there are three major landmarks within the same landscape that really really can't be seen like that. In this, it causes people to look at how they view things or how they don't really look. -
"Botanical Gardens, Dunedin 1923 + 2011", by Melanie Middlemiss
My entry is a mashup between an old and a new photo of the Botanical Gardens in Dunedin. The old photo was taken by Robert Percy Moore in approximately 1923. The new photo was taken by me in 2011. I have combined them both using photo editing software. I decided to make the combined image in black and white so that it is a bit harder to see which parts are from the original photo and which are from the new photo. When I started out with the old photo I thought it would be quite easy to find the location and angle that it was taken from. It turned out that when I visited the Botanical Gardens and tried to line my photo up with the original - there has been quite a lot of landscaping in the interim years. However, I managed to find the approximate spot, and am happy with the result.
Selected judges' comments
"A subtle remix, that isn't clear what is old and what is new, but that's why I like it. Deliberate decisions have been made across the image, rather than a straight merge. Uses the strength of Moore's original composition."
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"Forgotten in time", by Sabrina Schellkes
I came across a photograph of the opening of the second Fitzherbert bridge in Palmerston North which was built in 1933-1935. I recognised the railing in the photograph as the railing that is now part of the esplanade footpath and was astonished at how I had no idea about the history of a place I had walked through many times. I set out to find the area in the photograph and capture the exact path of the people who were forgotten in time. On my way to recreating this image, I discussed the photo's history with people of my generation and to my dismay I came across no-one my age who knew about the second fitzherbert bridge or where it used to stand. The manner in which my ignorance about the history of places I have seen many times resonated with me when recreating this image, and I found myself dwelling on the sombre idea of being forgotten. I hope this photograph encourages you to acknowledge the history of the place you are at in this very minute and remember the people who once walked the paths that you have walked as their translucent figures are captured in an image and then, once again, forgotten in time.
Selected judges' comments
"Obviously put some effort into taking a new photograph from the same site. A lovely anecdote detailing the research the entrant undertook when creating the work."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bohemiansimplicity/6149762572/in/photostream/
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"Past Augmented: an imaginary app.", by Richard Robertson
The image I remixed is of Willis Street, Wellington, captured some 80 years ago. Now remixed as part of an imaginary application: Past Augmented. Today, we can walk down a street and see it as it once was, with applications like History Pin. But what if you could go further, and see what the people of the time saw, how they lived, what if Google Street View time travelled to capture this view! And then take the museum and the archive out on the streets. I think this image captures the theme of “Past and present, then and now, yesterday and tomorrow” very well. The fictional augmented reality app shows When the next tram is arriving, Where it is going, What the street is. The app has a search function, using the term 'entertainment' with related results and locations popping up. The resulting information panels are based on actual businesses I researched using the likes of Time Frames and Papers Past. I used out of copyright film's posters, and creative commons shared images as well as creating my design using open source graphics software: GIMP and Inkscape.
Selected judges' comments
"Neat idea: I'd buy that app! Good to see the entrants research coming through in the image."
"This work immediately stood out as an highly imaginative concept. The idea comes from left-field, but answers the creative brief very well. The mix of old images and information, with a futuristic augmented-reality overlay made me think about the piece from two very different perspectives. Living in the past, but with modern tools, or wandering round the modern world with our view changed to that of the past. Both of these are engaging visions and fulfil one of the most fundamental purposes of art, and that is to help us see things in a new way."
http://richmadethis.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/entry-for-image-remix-comp-mix-and-mash-2011/
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"Polaroid from uncertain times", by Chang-Hsin Wang
This entry won the Photo Remix category sponsored by DigitalNZ
The Cathedral is damaged, the square is cordoned off, but the memories of the good times we spend there have survived. This polaroid is a remix of 23 photos, all of them taken in the Christchurch Cathedral Square from different periods of the past. In the polaroid people are happy and smiling even they are in front of the damaged cathedral, much like Christchurch residents who have grown amazing strength and resilience during the times of uncertainty. -
"Snow in wellington, past and present", by Francoise Padellec
I came across this competition during the coldest week of the winter, when the country was being bombarded by a polar jet stream coming from Antartica. The Wellington regions was covered in thick snow. Many people were cut off for a couple of days up on the hills. The city was shivering and yet there was a holiday atmosphere. People were excited and marveled by the novelty of having snow at their doorstep. Skis and sleds appeared from garages and attics and had a once in a generation outing onto the slopes of the capital. The headlines emphasized the rarity of the vent and I went to hunt for newspaper articles in PapersPast for similar events in New Zealand’s past. I ended up finding some references to heavy snow falls in the region back in 1918 and found some free from copyright images from 1918 and 1992. I started a process of integration to create a tableau that would mix past and present to convey the timeless feel of exhilaration that snow always brings to a community. I created a diorama out of the images I selected and mixed and photographed its various elements, to create a sort of memory album. Memory not from a single event but from similar events from the same place at different moments in time to try and create the feel rather than the specific facts related to the weather, so important in our lives.
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"The Keyboard of New Zealand", by Casey Carsel
This entry won a student prize sponsored by DigitalNZ and a Lead Judges' special award sponsored by Department of Conservation
My keyboard is an amalgamation of what makes New Zealand New Zealand. It uses a mixture of New Zealand and international images from a range of sites that are under both complete public domain and restricted Creative Commons licenses. The keys that are alphabet letters have pictures that correspond to the letter, however I won't say specifically what they stand for or why I've included them, because that would ruin the magic. This entry is so gosh darn awesome because people will be able to stare at it for a long time and still find new meaning from every key. I also want to influence viewers to question of themselves what they think makes New Zealand New Zealand. I have also put it on DeviantArt to show both the national and international community what New Zealand is all about. By using the keyboard, I wanted to mix modern life and the past and show that our past is still present in everyday life. I also wanted to show the significance of our culture as a whole; if even one key is missing, it become difficult to communicate. In the same way, if part of our culture is missing, we will no longer be what we are today. There is also the combinations of these different keys that I am using to make words even now. In the same way, different combinations of understanding of New Zealand culture can lead to different understanding of selves. On the surface, putting New Zealand culture to key is only aesthetic, but so many meanings and views of life can come out of it when further explored. -
"The re-forming of New Zealand", by Douglas Campbell
Connecting 'then' and 'now' through visual form. The form of daily life in NZ in 2011 is both the same, and different, as it was a century ago. The past is gone but its echoes can still be seen in todays' forms, and no doubt will be seen again in another century - in the year 2111! Each panel takes stunning photos in their own right and cheekily re-mixes & re-forms them to tell a story of the re-forming of New Zealand.
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"Your type stands firmly on its feet", by Donna Robertson
I love typefaces and would get a thrill each day walking past the Caxton Press. I had photographed it, and the Christchurch Writers' Trail plaque for Denis Glover. When it was badly damaged in the September 4 earthquake, and part of it was demolished I would walk past on my way to work and home, as it gradually disappeared. When the old damaged piece of the building was gone, it was great to see the Caxton Press still working, still printing. I noticed beautiful wires in the rubble. I was excited to be able to bring Glover himself into my picture and the typefaces let me think about how words stand while buildings fall.
Selected judges' comments
"More of a completely new work than a remix compared to the other entries. A real tangle of text and image, using snippets of each to create more of a poem than an image."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kebabette/6145334673/in/photostream