Research
The following four pictures are not my work they belong to a photographer named Dragon Todorovic
- The dark surroundings of the widow make the window a heavy focus point.
- As the window is the only part of the picture that has anything but blackness, it gives of a strong Mysterious and dark aura.
- The side street or back alley this was taken in has a sinister feel to it.
- The picture is in black and white which makes the darks and lights of this street strong.
- To the left side of the picture there is a river or canal in which the light at the end of the tunnels reflects of.
- This picture has a sinister feel to as the light is like an only hope to safeness.
- In this picture to the lower middle of the picture there is a woman who looks at the light, as if she is expecting something or someone.
- The window is on a focus point and draws some attention to itself by being the brightest point in the picture
The pictures above have a few things in common;
- Most of them are in black and white
- All pictures have a strong light as the center of the focus
- Each picture as a sliver evil and mystery
Dragan Todorovic
Dragan Todorovic is an author and multimedia artist. He was born in Yugoslavia, where he lived until 1995, when he emigrated to Canada. In Belgrade he was a journalist, an editor, and a TV personality. He started writing when he learned how to write. At first he wrote poetry, then stories, then essays.He studied law and journalism. Between 1977 and 1995 Dragan published extensively in the leading magazines of Yugoslavia. At some point, he won the Best Young Journalist award. During the last six years of his life in Belgrade he published four books and worked mostly on radio and television as a talk-show host, writer and producer.Dragan continued to write after moving to Canada. He wrote for Toronto Star, This, Saturday Night, NOW, Ottawa Citizen and other Canadian publications. In 1997 his article “Border Crossing” was nominated for the Canadian National Magazine Award. In 1998 he was part of the prestigious Creative Journalism program at Banff Centre for the Arts. The essay written there was published in a book in 2000. The same year, he worked with Ken Finkleman as the script consultant on his TV series “Foreign objects” (episode “Evil”), where he got one of the leading roles, in spite of refusing to change his haircut.For his multimedia work, Dragan won awards at the New York Festivals, John Caples International Awards, and Astound International Competition. Because of his never-ending love for radio, a few years ago Dragan made two projects for CBC Radio One. His most recent work was a sound-art piece for Deep Wireless Festival, titled “In My Language I am Smart.”Dragan’s writing was supported by Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.His first book in English, The Book of Revenge, was nominated for British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, and won The Nereus Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize in 2007. His novel Diary of Interrupted Days has been short listed for Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Amazon Prize and Toronto Book Award.
Planning
- I plan to do similar work to Dragan but I will develop the black and white into my own form and use color as well to show the difference in both color and black and white.
- I will also have two viewpoints, the looking into the light and looking from the light
- I plan to use doors, windows, gaps through cloth,gaps in-between pottery/cups/boxes and and gaps between furniture