Studio Practice : OUGD405 | Studio brief 02 - Superlambananas Photographs

I planned a trip to Liverpool in order to photograph the Superlambananas in their 'natural environment'. This did however, come with its difficulties. I had forgotten to bring my camera charger and unfortunately the battery failed before I could take a single photo. So, I had to use an iPhone camera as an alternative. Fortunately, the quality of these photos wasn't too bad.

The other difficulty was that despite there being around 125 Gosuperlambanana sculptures, only a few of these remained in public areas and it was difficult to find out where the last few remained. There was still around 7 sculptures in the docks, and 2 in the Museum of Liverpool, plus the original Superlambanana. So with these combined I was able to gain more than 20 photos - although it would have been nice to have had 20 different Superlambananas photographed.

I tried to focus in on the details of each Lambanana. Unfortunately, the reasons behind each design were not always clear. One of the most spectacular designs was Mandala or 'Mandy"- which featured a mosaic design with glass eyes.

Below are a few of the photos that I gathered -