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Mind the Cloud work was selected among side other emerging works and screen displayed at TATE MODERN during Dora Maar's exhibition in January 2020

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Electric Walk

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this is my friends small studio for alternative process.
I couldn't work with this at Goldsmiths labs, it was to complicate so I had the opportunity to use this space to create the final project

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Nature Invasion , 2020
Photocollage.

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This portrait was made in 2020

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MY JOURNEY and WHY Am I at this MA Photography at Goldsmiths 

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MY JOURNEY and WHY Am I at this MA Photography at Goldsmiths 

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My name is Juliana Manara de Melo - but I am known by my friends and as an artist by Juli Manara .
I started practicing photography very early and it was at the University for my BA (Social Communication) that I developed my passion and motivation to follow it as career .
I moved to France where I did some studies and later to London where I made it my home. At the time I wanted to join a MA , specially the one at Goldsmiths but I got a job which removed my free time to study again. I kept creating personal works and also worked as lecturer at Speos International Photography School - London and Paris - for 8 years until the pandemic arrived, and their London program was paused. After the pandemic and the Brexit all changed a lot and I found it was time to follow this desire to join MA in the UK. What an interesting journey to be a students after after so long in a uncertain time with COVID and recessions, we suffered so many strikes and unfortunately hit badly one of the classes I was most excited - video / film but at the end I feel I evolved during the last year as well as met some really nice people.
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The idea of this project for the Graduation show was to create a body of work where I could share a lot of my experience as photographer and educator .
As I have been through different process and styles during the past years  I felt that a combination of it all would be the way I would create this body of work. Through my artworks I wanted to also teach the viewers some interesting facts and details about photography. During this MA and some specific courses I have developed a wider understanding, and also changed a lot my thoughts about the medium and it's transformations . Through the academic readings suggested by the course and discussions we had in some lectures plus a lot of  researches too. The idea is to produce a book with a longer journey and more processes after this dissertation but for a the final essay I tried to short it by developing a smaller version which I called " A Little History of Photography" . I rented my friend's little studio where I have access to older photography processes materials to be able to create my photographs.
One of the reasons I joined an MA was also because of an Academic Opportunity I was offered in another London University in 2023 but I feel I no longer will pursue a teaching or academic career as a full time job, I might have changed my plans so this project and the continuity of it will be an achievement with my learning, experiences and thoughts  I wish to  share ...

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London Mayfair 2014

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This is me working in my studio with a botanic work of photomontages - a series called Secret Gardeners where I develop large scale art prints editions.

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Wet Collodion Final Print  - 10 x 8 inches 2022

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Wet Collodion Final Print  - 10 x 8 inches 2022

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Wet Collodion Final Print  - 10 x 8 inches 2022

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Wet Collodion Final Print  - 10 x 8 inches 2022

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Wet Collodion Final Print  - 10 x 8 inches 2022

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Wet Collodion Final Print  - 10 x 8 inches 2022

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Wet Collodion Final Print  - 10 x 8 inches 2022

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Surrealism aims to revolutionise human experience. It balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams. The movement’s artists find magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional. At the core of their work is the willingness to challenge imposed values and norms, and a search for freedom.

The word ‘surrealist’ (suggesting ‘beyond reality’) was coined by the French avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire in the preface to a play performed in 1917. But it was André Breton, leader of a new grouping of poets and artists in Paris, who, in his Surrealist Manifesto (1924), defined surrealism as:

pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.

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Homage to- my favourite- Lee Miller - Final Print

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Homage to- my favourite- Lee Miller - Final Print

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Wet Collodion Final Print  - Sad War - 10 x 8 inches 2022

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Alma Ruth Lavenson was an American photographer active in the 1920s and 1930s. She worked with and was a close friend of Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and other photographic masters of the period.

She was invited to participate in the famous Group f/64 show at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, although there is some uncertainty about whether she should actually be called a "member" of Group f/64, given her association with Pictorialism.

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French photographer based in Paris. I had the opportunity to attend a lecturer made by her in 2010 which was a big inspiration for being a photographer.
She created a series called Modern Lovers (1989-1990) where the photographer questioned gender, androgyny and transsexuality.

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Imogen Cunningham April 12, 1883 – June 23, 1976) was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. Cunningham was a member of the California-based Group f/64, known for its dedication to the sharp-focus rendition of simple subjects.

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no human faces...

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I am fascinated by FIGURES CHARACTERS

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Faces of a human can tell a lot and fake a lot. I like the mystery and the no identification .

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 INSPIRATION....Scarnival deck, “Tarot” by Jess Hundley from Taschen’s Library 

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 INSPIRATION....Scarnival deck, “Tarot” by Jess Hundley from Taschen’s Library 

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Costume design with stripes and shapes

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I enjoy the way Roger's use fictional figures into his created photographs . His obscure scenarios and props bringing this narrative to a lens based work is fascinating and unusual for the start of the medium.

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As mentioned this project merged a lot of different techniques and styles together. Some images were shot with  large format, as this film scanned here. Some were shot with medium format and 35mm and even mobile .

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drawing is the way I create the ideas for my characters

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drawing is the way I create the ideas for my characters

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Self Portrait Figures as the main subject

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Self Portrait Figures as the main subject

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All the masks designed by me and were hand made by a craft lady back in my home town in Brazil

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This is a 4x8 wood camera used for some of the photographs composed in the project

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PROCESS 5 - Re-shooting the still images direct to the wet plate

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PROCESS 5 - Re-shooting the still images direct to the wet plate

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A large 2D print of the image constructed before was placed in front of the 8x10 camera . This large size made me work perfectly with the focus ( a smaller print would not provide me to shoot a sharp images with the size I wanted) .
Using an 8×10 camera requires patience it is mirrored and upside down images and to get the right angle with the heavy equipment can take a few minutes. I have 15 minutes to shoot with the wet plate as once it is dried it becomes waterproof and avoids images to be fixed on the surface

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Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer and photojournalist. She was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, where she became a fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second World War, she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.

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Camilla "Ylla" Koffler

1911 – 1955 was a Hungarian photographer who specialized in animal photography. At the time of her death she "was generally considered the most proficient animal photographer in the world."

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Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer who is considered one
of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known
for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorian men and for
illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity,
and literature.

Most of her images are made through the wet collodion process

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after 6 hours ....I managed to print all plates

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after 6 hours ....I managed to print all plates

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Kept them overnight drying to avoid any damage to the screen

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This waxing process in a layer protection for the plates durability

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cleaning the chemicals...

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this is the view from the 2d subject before shooting.
Light tests and time were made before with a 4x5 smaller plate so I didn't waste chemicals and materials

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Before it can be exposed in the camera, a collodion plate must be sensitized in a solution of silver nitrate.

This is done by dipping the newly coated plate into a 7% silver nitrate bath.

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PROCESS 2 - 10x8 camera / 1930 projector lens

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PROCESS 2 - 10x8 camera / 1930 projector lens

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Wet Collodion plate is one of the oldest printing process from the late 1800s. The
process involved adding a soluble iodide to a solution of collodion (cellulose
nitrate) and coating to an aluminium o plate.After coating the plates, it needs to
expose it in at least 10-15 minutes. For this project I chose a 10x8 inches cameras
with an old school projector lenses from 1930sh and all this images needed 20
second exposure each (which explain the process of re-photographing the created
still images) to be able to capture this compositions( unusual images for this
process). Large Format Camera captures images upside down and in a mirrored way and
intensionally I leave it mirrored for an idea how the photographer sees the images
from the back of this cameras.

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“I love the immediacy of unposed, spontaneous photographs and the ability of the camera to capture the serious, the funny, the sublime and the ridiculous. Despite the many wonderful pictures of the great and famous, I feel that less formal, quotidian images can often convey more of the life and spirit of the time”

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PROCESS 1  - collage montage compositions

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PROCESS 1  - collage montage compositions

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My first trials with Ambrotype processes

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My first trials with Ambrotype processes

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I have been studying alternative processes to combine with my digital works since 2020

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Sheung was born in Suzhou, China, in 1914 and a photographer with a strong eye for capturing space and forms

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Zanele Muholi  (born 19 July 1972) is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race

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https://www.fotomuseum.ch/de/2014/03/03/is-photography-over/

A few years ago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art held a conference about photography – for a photo conference, it had the odd title “Is Photography Over?.” Curators Sandra Phillips and Dominic Wilsdon posed the question as a challenge to panelists, audience members and the world at large. The two-day symposium was an attempt to shake up conventional institutionalized discourses about photography and to be an opportunity to think about what, if anything, has “changed” about photography over the last decade or so.

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Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature

(Tate Modern)

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MIXING styles "Owl Lover" Negative from 4x5 - Large Format Cameras

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MIXING styles "Owl Lover" Negative from 4x5 - Large Format Cameras

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As mentioned this project merged a lot of different techniques and styles together. Some images were shot with large format, as this film scanned here. Some were shot with medium format and 35mm and even mobile .

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Grete Stern was a German-Argentine photographer. With her husband Horacio Coppola, she helped modernise the visual arts in Argentina, and presented the first exhibition of modern photographic art in Buenos Aires, she was most knows for her collages and photomontages.

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Tests ----printing process - wet plate collodion

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Tests ----printing process - wet plate collodion

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Albumen Print Photomontage found in a History of Photography book. It inspires me the surrealistic composition made out of collage. Images that were added new meanings to new compositions. This technique started years and years ago. I am fascinated by the deconstruction of the original photographs to a new concept.

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The background is a upside down ceiling form an abandoned house in France. It brings this surrealistic effect to the image. 

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The passion by the journey of photography is following me since I first start studying it. This are some historic materials I collected and a small wet plat self portrait from my first workshop in London to learn alternative processes

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Some initial tests to develop some processes from home.

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Brief notes about Women in the Photography

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Brief notes about Women in the Photography

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Following my lecturer's advice on how to create my own version of the history - journey of photography I decided to focus my creations and inspirations through the work and life of females and non binary artists who pioneered the medium and are currently some of the most important photographers . Since I studied photographs and also lectured studio techniques at Speos School ( Paris - London) I found out that majority of people researches and even inspirations are from male artists. I still love a lot of male artists and learned a lot from them, but there are so many artists who are not highlighted and by discovering them I ended up teaching myself a lot - I added to my final MA project some selected ones choosing by they multiple styles, from earlier times to today and by their styles, from portraits , still life, fashion, war, activism and so on....

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This is a little sketch before shooting images for the compositions. I first visualise the composition and then I create the images

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Jessie Tarbox Beals was an American photographer, the first
published female photojournalist in the United States and
the first female night photographer. She is best known for
her freelance news photographs, particularly of the 1904
St. Louis World's Fair, and portraits of places such as
Bohemian Greenwich Village

1870 - 1942

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During the 1970s, fashion photography moved more towards sexual provocation and tended to become, according to Nancy Hall-Duncan, "a subdivision of the culture of pornography." Turbeville took its misty atmospheres and combined them with models that communicated neither between one another nor with the viewer