When we went to meet Tom Pope for the first time, we visited the Societe Jersiaise to watch and listen to a couple of presentations given by Tom and Gareth who also works at the archive. Tom presented his videos to us and explained the reasoning’s behind them and how he got where he is today which started from the RCA college in London. He wanted to inspire us as young amateur photographers to try and make us produce something that we weren’t use to. He took us outside and paired us up to shoot some videos to start to get  a feel of what it is he does.

He gave us an orange between our pair and the idea was for one of us to throw the orange up in the air and let the other partner taking photographs as the orange is landing on the camera. This idea related to Tom Pope’s work when he threw apples at the camera were the trigger release was to try and make the apple take the picture instead of him, this was guess work but came out as interesting photographs, especially with the public reaction. He threw 60 apples and ended up with only 6 images, but I like how the guy in the background is just watching him, it completes the picture.

This activity was very strange to me at first but as the time went on, it was actually really enjoyable and made me realize that I should have more fun with my photography. Tom Pope was very laid back and really did inspire me and as the day went on and he tried more activities with us I got more intrigued. We also went n groups and had to all think of an action to do and capture, for example I chose spin and we had to photography ourselves spinning, and capture a technically bad photograph but a contextually good photograph.