Thomas Ruff Machines

During the second shoot that I did at the forge, as well as building a better report with the men who work there, I also saw different potential routes to go down for the assignment. One of these potential paths was influenced by the work of Thomas Ruff, a photographer who recontextualizes images originally taken from an industrial pattern book. He reworks the images so that the end result is a hybrid of pre-existing photographs.

Below are examples of his work.

Whilst walking around the metal work factory I noticed an abundance of machines similar to that in Ruffs photographs, I obviously subconsciously photographed these with the images of Ruffs in my head helping me when setting up the photograph. Below are a few of these type of photographs that I took whilst at the forge, these are still very ruff and I have planned to rephotograph these machines on a white back drop.

I can see that there is much room for improvement in these photographs but I am using these purely as inspiration/ the basis for future photographs.