Fabienne Rivory Analysis.

Fabienne Rivory is a French artist from France whose photographic work focuses a lot on documenting various rural landscapes in France as well as the human impact on these landscapes and the effects on society, using the formal elements of lighting, colour, tones and compositions. For this artist analysis, I will be specifically looking at her landscape photography project titled 'Miroir' in response to the theme of 'Society' for this project. I decided to document the work of Fabienne Rivory in relation to this theme as I intend to take a series of photographs that document the urban society that I live in and around - such as Croydon, Kingston, London and Bromley - and the impact that we have on our own society such as graffiti, street art and the general lack of care we show our society and the environments that we live in as well as the constant changes that we are making to them. This is something that I felt inspired by whilst researching and analysing the work of Fabienne Rivory as I really like the gritty style her photographs gain through the heavy contrast of monochromatic tones and the selective colouring that she uses within her landscape photographs and how she uses that to create a focal point within a specific section of her photographs and it could therefore be an editing style that I take inspiration from and reference within my own photographic responses to this project.

Many of Fabienne Rivory's photographs are kept central using the rules of thirds and long distance
compositional angles in order to document her rural landscapes and the impact that we have on our society. Since Fabienne Rivory's work is based on creating a series of landscape based photographs or rural environments in France that may or may not have been affected by human life and nature, the artist takes a lot of photographs of these landscapes to capture the natural beauty of them as well as creating a stark contrast between the monochromatic tones of the original photograph and the bright colours that she adds using inks and watercolour paints to create a focal point within a specific section of the image.

A lot of the photographs that Fabienne Rivory has taken in order to create her project are based around various rural landscapes and the natural beauty of the landscapes that she is documenting

within her work. She often focuses a lot of her photographic work on the uses of natural lighting, colour and tones within her photographs, creating a stark contrast between the monochromatic tones of the imagery and the bright colours that she adds with watercolour paints and inks, to draw her target audience's attention to the rural landscape that she is photographing. This in turn creates a bold focal point within her photograph and draws her target audience's attention to the landscape within the monochromatic photograph, highlighting specific sections of the imagery she creates. This is something that I could potentially take inspiration from within my own landscape photographic work responding to the theme of 'Society' by adding highlights of colour into the photographs that I will be taking to draw my own target audience's attention directly to specific sections or items in the landscape and urban society that I will be documenting within my work.

Within my own photographic responses I have decided to take a series of landscape photographs that will respond to the theme of 'Society' by photographing the different urban environments of Croydon, Kingston, London and Bromley and the damages and lack of care that humans have for their own society within my photographs, focusing on the grit and grime that the city and town landscapes may have such as graffiti, street art and damages to buildings and the like as well as the changes that we are often making to our own society such as construction sites and the demolishment of buildings.