In the documentary we see Muniz go to a landfill site in Rio de Janeiro, it is the biggest in the world. He takes portraits of the pickers at the site, he then selected a few photos from this to create a bigger piece of art using recycled materials collected from the landfill. The people within the photographs helped him to create these works of art that he photographed and then sold at auction in order to help these people.
Vik Muniz within the landfill
one of the pieces of art before it had been photographed. You are able to see the shear scale of it due to the people in the bottom left corner, this suggests an indication to the vastness of the landfill site that these pickers work on.
So, from my initial research into the fashion photographers and designers who create their own clothes out of recyclable materials, I am now moving on still with the same idea, but I am going to create it in a similar way to how Muniz has created his 'Wasteland' images.
I will be looking into the people below to get an idea of how to create a new image from old images and materials.
Julie Cockburn
John Stezaker
Melinda Gibson
The images above that I have looked at have given me a few ideas of how I would like to portray my work, here are a couple I have made and scanned in:
Andy Warhol
I felt that Warhol's work had a connection with what I am looking into (fast throwaway fashion) because in the images below Warhol repeats the image over and over, which is what shops like Primark, H&M, Topshop etc do with their clothes, mass produce the same design and sell them reasonably cheap. Which leads people in to thinking that instead of recycling their old clothes and making new ones they just throw them away and buy new ones.
From looking at Warhol, I then decided to put together my own images in this style:
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