Contemporary Photographic Practices

Monday, 28 April 2014

FINAL THOUGHTS/EVALUATION

I am really happy with the outcome of the project. It has turned into an almost comical look at different peoples personalities and the way that each person has interpreted each image title. There are different things that you can draw from this project; specific things about the people that took the images, the type of things that people photograph for each subject, and in some cases, very similar things (eggs!). Each person that views the piece will take something different from it, something different will stand out to different people and that's what I like about it. I like that it can be viewed in so many ways, the fact that it's so big that you can look and compare each image. Compare the images that one person took, or compare the images for each question. I think that through showing it in the gallery space in this way allows the viewer to fully understand the project. All of the images would be shown, and spaces for where images didn't come out. At first I thought these spaces wouldn't work but I think it makes it almost, more effective. It gives breaks in between the images allowing the images not to be come as overwhelming as they could. It also shows that once I had given the cameras out, the project was out of my hands including the developing and printing. I wanted to show the natural way these cameras would be developed by any of these people, I didn't think that a fancy print would have worked as I liked the raw quality of the image prints and it's something we all know from when we have got our own disposable cameras developed.

Alongside the images would be my description and the questions above and Subject and their number to the left, all shown in Helvetica, an easily read and recognized font. Again here, I didn't want to overcomplicate things, I wanted to show what the project was about and how they can be read as simply and easily as possible and the font works well with this.

I have written about my understanding of how a final resolution is not always that simple and that a project has to be adaptable for each space that it could potentially go into. I have found my ideal situation, but this would not always be possible to be shown in in each location. As mentioned before, I would chose a selection myself, the images that stood out to me and exhibit them as my impression on these people's portraits and putting a little more of myself into the project and I think this could work effectively. The images would be shown singularly in a series all at the same 6x4 size.

I also think my project could work effectively in a book and again as I have stated before I would like to show the project in more than one way within it. It would be shown simply showing each person and their 27 images, 1 image to a page allowing the viewer to view each image by itself. It would then be shown by image number in a grid of 9 allowing the viewer to see all of the images grouped together to draw their own information and assumptions from it that way. It would then go onto the final image of all of the images in its grid showing it all in that way. This allows me to show the reader how the images should be read but also giving the viewer a chance to see it in different ways. This isn't a project that should be seen in one way, it works well with many and through its adapdability it could potentially be seen in many a space.

WORDS TO GO ALONGSIDE IMAGES

9 27 exposure disposable cameras were give out to a selection of 9 people alongside a list of things to photograph. The outcome shows a variety of these peoples interpretations of the subject Lorna Patrick gave them. This can be interpreted as a self portrait, without the portrait or looked into more widely than that. From left to right you can read what each subject put for each question and from top to bottom you can see what all of the subjects put for that one question.

WHITE WALL GALLERY EXAMPLE

This is showing different examples of my work within a white wall gallery space but with the format in the previous post.

LAYOUT FOR GALLERY

(You can click on this image for a large view, although it has been compressed for upload)

As I have been getting all of the images I have been laying out the format that in an idea world my work would be shown in. I would have all of the original 6x4 images on show and have them in this order with the writing transferred onto the wall in Helvetica font.I think the images would work well if tacked/pinned into the wall. This is how I would like my work shown in a gallery and it would work effectively on a long wall. I imagine this piece to be shown best within a white wall gallery space.

SUBJECT 9: IMAGES

1. Go into the next room and photograph an object that stands out to you

2. Circle

3. Take a photograph of your bedroom how it is right now

4. Two green objects next to each other

5. Love

6. An obsession

7. The contents of your bag

8. Food

9. Photograph something that gives you pleasure

10. Put the camera on the floor, bottom down, and take a picture

11. Moist

12. The letter P

13. Photograph something you find weird

14. Take a picture of your front door from outside your house

15. Something big, next to something small

16. Nature

17. Fun

18. Open your fridge and take a picture

19. Photograph the shoes you wear the most

20. Beauty

21. Something beginning with E and something beginning with L next to each other

22. Life

23. Take a picture of the sky

24. Take a picture of your favourite thing

There was nothing there for this one
25. A body part

26. Something you like next to something you don’t like

27. Photograph something that reflects your current mood

Friday, 25 April 2014

EUGINIE SHINKLE TALK - 'SELFIE'

Looking into the self portrait, firstly as an extension to my previous project on the 'selfie' and to this project as a self portrait without being a literal self portrait, I found this discussion really interesting as it makes you think differently about something that has become so normal to us today and to even have gone one step further by adding the term to the dictionary.