burning [Liverpool]

This chapter of the blog revolves around an area that had a glorious past but now just another district that calls for regeneration. Mostly, residential but with empty terraced houses, some dilapidated churches and empty streets howling with gentle winds.

"It is just one of those days, when you feel like doing nothing, when you feel wasted, when you just feel to be all on your own… and then you decide to take a walk in wilderness."

But… I decided to go to Liverpool 8. I guess, one of the most silent walks that I ever did during my stay in Liverpool. The time was somewhere close to the sunset… yes, fortunately the sun did shine for the whole day.

Theme of photography 

[ Losing Glory ] 

Photography tip - the idea was to photograph the area in silhouettes. The lens of my camera faced the sun directly giving me some wonderful images showing outlines of houses, trees and some people.

If talking conceptually - I believe the sun is a symbol of 'hope' in all of these photographs, highlighting that the area can rise to its full potential one day if the authorities are considerate enough to invest in regenerating its past.

[Competition] Submission

I have submitted artworks for this particular competition.

The client's brief is:

Fantastic Opportunity to be Part of an Growing International Hotel Brand

The Client, Ashall Projects (NJS) Ltd; Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Balfour Beatty have opened up a fantastic opportunity for the

winner of this Artwork competition to design the new headboard artwork, which will not only be installed in the new Liverpool Aloft

Hotel, but the winner will also get the chance to visit the European flagship Aloft Hotel in Brussels on a weekend break.

Moreover, all the artists were supposed to submit their proposals according to the client's specified criteria and that was:

Criteria – Create two images, final and colour scheme below of the Iconic Liverpool City Scape, in a style similar to those depicted in the images in Photoshop PSD or JPEG files at 300 dpi (i have not displayed the sample images).

My entries for the competition...

I am hoping to win it. :)

the [rain] began again

Stop Motion Time-lapse # 4

This is another compilation of photographs I took one fine day while in Liverpool... only that it was raining. The video shows transitions from how the bright sunlight was overwhelmed by the raindrops. Just an ordinary day but with a little bit flavor of clamminess.
 

the [rain] began again from Sameer Aftab on Vimeo.