Jitka Hanzlova
http://www.jitkahanzlova.com/
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/jitka-hanzlova/
Artist Jitka Hanzlová (born in 1958) was suggested through peer discussion for me to refer to and research in relation to my project. through viewing and understanding they way she creates her images, i did find similarities in what we are trying to convey through our work. like Hanzlova i have focused on the landscape in which i grew up in, revisiting sights and areas i remember as a child, in order to document them and give them a sense of visibility, allowing these strange places to finally be seen. I grew up in an area of 'outstanding beauty', yet was never interested in the picturesque scenes but more the mundane and grotty areas of village life which i try to bring to life through my photography.
Hanzlova's images are actually all portrait (images have been cropped to fit Weebly template), something that confused me in relation to her landscape imagery, but due to her thoughtful composition and subject matter the framing works and works well. also the colours within her images are so bright and complimenting at the same time, although a lot of green is present, a lot of texture seems to break up the image allowing for detail.
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/jitka-hanzlova/
Artist Jitka Hanzlová (born in 1958) was suggested through peer discussion for me to refer to and research in relation to my project. through viewing and understanding they way she creates her images, i did find similarities in what we are trying to convey through our work. like Hanzlova i have focused on the landscape in which i grew up in, revisiting sights and areas i remember as a child, in order to document them and give them a sense of visibility, allowing these strange places to finally be seen. I grew up in an area of 'outstanding beauty', yet was never interested in the picturesque scenes but more the mundane and grotty areas of village life which i try to bring to life through my photography.
Hanzlova's images are actually all portrait (images have been cropped to fit Weebly template), something that confused me in relation to her landscape imagery, but due to her thoughtful composition and subject matter the framing works and works well. also the colours within her images are so bright and complimenting at the same time, although a lot of green is present, a lot of texture seems to break up the image allowing for detail.
"Hanzlová explores in her various series of photographs the individual, his surroundings, and the landscape in which he lives. In so doing, she often approaches the sites of her childhood, an aspect that she describes in the following terms. “The path that I take is a path back to look into the future.” She dedicated her first extensive series Rokytník, made between 1990 and 1994, to the small Czech village of the same name, which she visited regularly over a period of five years. While in this and other work groups, she prefers sociological aspects with a documentary-seeming aesthetic, in the series Forest (2000-2005) she allows mythological dimensions to resonate. Hanzlová took photographs in the forests of her Czech homeland near the Carpathian Mountains. She shows the forest as a metaphor, as a concrete landscape, but also as a site where the line dividing fantasy and reality becomes thin. Her photography, which is never subjected to editing after being taken, is striking in both its objectivity and its sensitivity. Their composition always seems refined, and yet random, the tones are tender and fragile, and yet lend a palpable materiality to what is represented, making them seem unnaturally close."
"she has sought to explore her experiences through photography, producing a body of work at once poetic and truthful. Hanzlová’s photography is in constant pursuit of the relationship between the individual and the context in which he or she lives. It scrutinizes the ways in which home and surroundings indelibly shape identity. Drawing on her own life story, Hanzlová’s photographs also speak to a more universal longing for a sense of place."