Hanging continued...

Our task for this week was to finish off hanging our exhibition from last week making sure all pinhole prints and collodion images were composed in a way we thought appropriate. 

Putting nails into the wall to hang the clips off of. 

We had to measure out equal distances along the wall making sure each image had four equal places to be hung off. 

The finished hangings.

The Wet collodion images were hung using the same composition as the Pinholes which I think worked well and allowed for a symmetry within the exhibition. 

Wet Collodion Hangings.

Front on.

Looking back on the hanging process I feel the way in which the images are hung reflect the process in which they were made successfully. The way the Pinholes are hung allow you to see they were made in a large round object like the bins they were created in. 

Seeing the work coming together after weeks of work allowed me to see all that went into just one collection of work.

Hanging.

This week we've gone back to continue progressing on with our first 3 weeks work. We learnt how we should hang work. The best positions, heights and the reasoning that goes with it.

Measuring the height of photos in relation
to wall space to work out distancing.

Using a LED spirit level to make sure the
work is hung in a straight line.

We spent time deciding how high to hang the images and the best heights for audience viewing to do with eye level etc. We then decided in terms of light that lights each wall which images should be positioned where and what goes next to each other in terms as narrative and tones.

After this we spent a considerable amount of time choosing pairs of images to be hung together. We decided upon this by looking at tonal qualities within images, comparisons of depths of fields and narratives and so on.

I'd never hung my own work before so didn't really know what was expected of me and the best way to go about the process so in this respect I found this lab very helpful.
It opened my eyes to not only the different ways of hanging, for example, using bull dog clips and nails or using glass headed pins. It also showed me all the different elements that need to be considered such as lengths of images and average eye height for people.