Ori Gersht

I think that at this point it's a good time to begin my research, and so I've started by looking at a photographer who I'm also using as part of my dissertation, his name is Ori Gersht.
In particular what I'm looking at here is his Rear Windows series, where Gersht has photographed the night skies above London from the window of his flat, over a period of two years.






What Gersht wanted to show were the dramatic optical effects of light and atmosphere. The photographs were shot at twilight, and mingled together with the light pollution on the sky, they make a series of really beautiful images.



It is the aesthetics of the photographs, and not the comments of light pollution that I'm interested in here. He has used a various filters throughout to enhance the colours, making them in some cases more vivid, and others more dull looking.
I think the photographs look fantastic, in particular the change of gradient in the colours as they run from top to bottom in the frame. The colours are so striking and simply make the sky look amazing.



There is certainly a lot that I can take from this series when looking at what I'm am going to be doing. Due to the fact that I am going to be shooting at night, the use of filters could be something interesting to play with as a way making the colours really eye catching. What I also like about Gersht's images are the compositions he has used within them. Having the sky as the focus and the the city below as only a fraction of the image really works well, and could be something to experiment with in the future.