Photograph a damaged photograph, and damage the photograph you took in a different way than the original was damaged.

Photograph that, then damage that output in a different way than the first two were damaged, and photograph it.

Repeat the process as many times as you feel comfortable with.

Alter this idea, augment it, or add to it as suits you - by ( Read more... )

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Chemigrams

• An experimental photographic technique that involves using photosensitive materials, chemicals, and unconventional tools to create unique and abstract images.
• Experiment with unconventional materials and chemicals to create abstract photographic prints.
• This will require a more formal setup since chemicals are involved.

Photograms

• Photograms ( Read more... )

Pick a specific period of time - a week, a month, etc. - and take a picture of the same thing at the same time on each day of that period, or do so on the same day every week for a month or a year, and create a collage or framed wall piece or something else out of them.

This project works great with the outdoors where things can change from moment ( Read more... )

(reduce colour depth)

• turn a colour photo into a black and white one
• lower the number of layers of colour to a satisfactory level to obliterate the image, or merely posterises it
• do this with other colour options as well

You will need:

• a camera, cameraphone
• Polaroids or other images
• substrate - canvas, board, poster board, journal
• adhesives

Do:

• Gather some old Polaroid photos or print out small pictures from your phone, computer, the web.

You will need:

• printer / scanner / photocopier
• paper

Do:

• Select whatever images you like to work with - photographic, illustrative, or other.
• Scan them.
• You might want to experiment with different scanning and printing settings - resolution, brightness, contrast.

(etrecissements, layering, decoupage, etc.)

You will need:

• images to work with (magazines are easy sources)
• multiple versions of the images (optional)
• scissors or X-Acto knife
• a substrate - mixed media paper, poster board, watercolour paper, etc.
• decorative papers or other images (optional)

Damaged photos are not a lost cause. You can augment them by adding embellishments, washes, mark making, stitching, sketching, colouring, or other alterations to bump their visual interest ( Read more... )

If you have damaged photos that you don’t want to just throw out, you can repurpose them for a myriad of different creative projects.

• Alter them such that you can transform them into something else entirely. This could involve adding fantastical elements, abstract elements, additional body parts such as wings, augmenting with contrasting or abnormal ( Read more... )