Michelle Yates Photography & Media
12by12 Photographic Challenge 2015/2016
The 12 by 12 Photographic Challenge is a year long challange, where a new challenge is set every month by a professional photographer. Each challenge challanges the way in which they are approached and the way participants think about what they will photograph to meet the challenge requirements. This also challenges the participants to think how they will also compose, frame and take their photograph series. Entries are then submitted to the challenge photo pool on Flickr where they have the chance at being selected to be placed into the challenge's photobook at the end of the challenge year and shown to the world. My submissions to some of the challenges can be viewed below in the gallery.
Challenge 1 - March 2015
Take a route you are familar with and have never photographed and photograph someone or something every 100 or so steps.
- Vanessa Winship
Challenge 3 - May 2015
Build something with the intention of photographing it. After you have photographed it dismantle whatever it is that you created.
- Dan Winters
Challenge 5 - July 2015
Photograph the interior of a building without going inside. Choose a place you've never been in before.
- Nicolo Degiorgis
Challenge 7 - September 2015
Reconsider the selfie.
- Patrick Willocq
Challenge 9 - November 2015
Take a photograph that will embarrass you and make your audience uncomfortable.
- Erik Kessels
Challenge 2 - April 2015
Find a place where you live where history made its mark. Allow yourself to breath, feel, contemplate and react with a photograph.
- Laura El - Tantawy
Challenge 4 - June 2015
Take what you bealive will be the final series of photographs before you die.
- Nick Brandt
Challenge 6 - August 2015
Try to tell the truth by taking photographs that lie about it.
- Max Pinckers
Challenge 8 - October 2015
"We have tested and tasted too much, lover - Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder." (Patrick Kavanagh)
- Eamonn Doyle
Challenge 10 - December 2015
Don't see photographs as an end result, rather as a source.
- Anouk Kruithof
"Take a route you’re familiar with but have never photographed along and photograph someone or something every 100 or so steps." — Vanessa Winship
"Find a place where you live where history made its mark. Allow yourself to breath, feel, contemplate and react with a photograph." Laura El - Tantawy. History made its mark here as this is the famous Major Oak in Sherwood Forest where Robin Hood is said to have lived.
"Find a place where you live where history made its mark. Allow yourself to breathe, feel, contemplate and react with a photograph." Laura El-Tantawy Within this forest history left its mark where a famous person in history was said to steal from the rich and give to the poor and his name was Robin Hood.
"Find a place where you live where history made its mark. Allow yourself to breathe, feel, contemplate and react with a photograph." Laura El-Tantawy Sherwood Forest has left its mark in history and has inspired many people to come and discover its historic beauty and learn more about the person who stole from the rich and gave to the poor Robin Hood.
"Find a place where you live where history made its mark. Allow yourself to breathe, feel, contemplate and react with a photograph." Laura El-Tantawy Sherwood Forest is full of historic beauty which many come to visit to discover and react with photographs themselves.
"Find a place where you live where history made its mark. Allow yourself to breathe, feel, contemplate and react with a photograph." Laura El-Tantawy Sherwood Forest has left its mark in history for many generations to discover and escape to in its historic beauty and learn more about the famous Robin Hood himself.
"Build something with the intention of photographing it. After you have photographed it disassemble whatever it is that you created." — Dan Winters Here is one of my photographic entries for this challenge. The approach I had taken was thinking down the line of creating something like a model or figurine from scratch, which would show it has been created and can be disassembled. So I found I could create a dragon and by the way it has been assembled.
"Build something with the intention of photographing it. After you have photographed it disassemble whatever it is that you created." — Dan Winters Here is second example of the dragon I created for the challenge.
"Build something with the intention of photographing it. After you have photographed it disassemble whatever it is that you created." — Dan Winters Here is a third example of the dragon I created for the challenge and photographed it placed into a different position to capture something different within the frame.
"Build something with the intention of photographing it. After you have photographed it disassemble whatever it is that you created." — Dan Winters Here is my forth example of the dragon I created for the challenge and photographed it again placed into a different position within frame.
"Build something with the intention of photographing it. After you have photographed it disassemble whatever it is that you created." — Dan Winters Here is my fifth example of the dragon photographed in a different position within frame to complete my selection for this challenge.
"Take what you believe will be the final series of photographs before you die." — Nick Brandt Here is my first photo for this challenge. The last set of photographs I believe I would take are of what remains of my country's rich heritage and the way nature is experienced at the time. Where both are combined for future generations to continue to enjoy.