https://padlet.com/jodie_swan/776musvlh8s6 Class notes about contemporary photographer Rob Dobi en-us 2018-03-06 01:19:54 UTC 2018-03-23 00:20:51 UTC hello@padlet.com jodie_swan https://padlet.com/jodie_swan/776musvlh8s6/wish/238417007 - Dobi shoots on a consumer level camera - the Nikon D80 DSLR, using a variety of lenses
- He requires a tripod as he shoots long exposures due to the low lighting conditions. He uses available lighting only.
- He rarely requires post productions photo manipulation and rather relies on in camera editing 
- He relies on good weather and the availability of access to the sites he wants to shoot. 

]]> 2018-03-06 01:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jodie_swan/776musvlh8s6/wish/238417007 jodie_swan https://padlet.com/jodie_swan/776musvlh8s6/wish/238419358 - Dobi exhibits online rather than in art galleries 

- Dobi believes he has a wide audience who is not necessarily art educated

- Email responses to his work indicate that audiences are moved but the pathos of his images. ]]> 2018-03-06 01:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jodie_swan/776musvlh8s6/wish/238419358 https://padlet.com/jodie_swan/776musvlh8s6/wish/238420086 - Captures images from abandoned arms factories, gaols and lunatic asylums
- Dobi describes his practice as documenting the buildings
- Physical desolalation is suggested in his images
- Dobi uses compositions, cropping and light to suggest emotional nuance
- He symbolises faded lives with the flaking colours
- In Jersy Jail 10/11 the broken dowel sticks are like the broken lives of the men who were once imprisoned there]]> 2018-03-06 01:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jodie_swan/776musvlh8s6/wish/238420086 https://padlet.com/jodie_swan/776musvlh8s6/wish/238420116 - Dobi's photographs consist of decay, urban dereliction and worn-out memories 
- Dobi's passion is documenting derelict buildings of "his world"
- He photographs these locations before they are obliterated by time or development 
- His locations are now abandoned but once were up and running
- His art focusses on the possibilities of photography
- The locations of his photographs are in 'middle America']]> 2018-03-06 01:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jodie_swan/776musvlh8s6/wish/238420116 https://padlet.com/jodie_swan/776musvlh8s6/wish/238420127 - has an online business where he designs and makes clothes for youth
- designs CD covers, T-shirts for music clients, advertising and backdrops for live shows
- main influence is photographer Shaun O'Boyle
- he is a multi-disciplinary artist --> trained as an illustrator, makes a living from graphic design and documents the urban decay of his world
- college was in an area of abandoned buildings
- seeks to elicit emotional response from audience
- wants to ruminate on the histories of the buildings

]]> 2018-03-06 01:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jodie_swan/776musvlh8s6/wish/238420127 https://padlet.com/jodie_swan/776musvlh8s6/wish/238420242 - Dobi wanted to communicate his passion for abandoned buildings to an audience.
- Making eye-sores look like a new interesting perspective.
- He's trying to make these buildings into stories for people. 
- He tries to find the beauty in the "water-damaged wall or a discarded chair in an otherwise empty room."
- "The beauty of these images is sometimes in their stories, sometimes in their shapes and forms, textures and colours, the abstract qualities that Dobi is able to capture.]]> 2018-03-06 01:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jodie_swan/776musvlh8s6/wish/238420242