I want to explore the Idea of family beyond the people that you are related to by blood such as communities, close friends and teams which can come through things such as hobbies. Linked on to this Idea I also want to explore what defines a family in the modern day rather than a typical traditional family. I’m going to try and photograph what it is like to be within a non- related family and the things that they get up to while spending time together on an everyday normal basis.
The second Idea that I would like to explore is the Idea of past family members, memories and old photo albums. By photographing what it’s like living without them now for example: taking pictures of what is going on in their past homes and what it was like before they past away by incorporating different photographs from family photo albums.
Theo Gosselin did a project which I thought was really interesting and was a perfect representation of documentary photography. His photography book that he published really inspired me to do a similar idea. He took photos of his road trip around America with his friends and just took really cool, some simplistic photographs that really looked effective. The colours and lighting really fit the mood for his topic, the sunsets looke beautiful and the photographs were very natural and fun.
As a response I want to do something very similar, this will be quite extreme but I do want to capture some images of people jumping in the sea naked from behind. When I see them it makes me smile because I can see the enjoyment they have from doing it from their body actions. I want to make a day out of this project, so I am going to get about 4 friends to come on a drive with me to different parts of Jersey and take photographs of the spontaneous things that we do. I am interested in getting shots from in the sea and then if it is a nice day, sunset pictures because the lighting will be perfect. Another photographer that does a similar idea is Mike Brodie, also known by his graffiti tag the “Polaroid Kid”, is an American photographer from Pensacola, Florida. A friend gave him a camera and he subsequently spent three years photographing people he encountered, largely train-hoppers, vagabonds, squatters and hobos. His photography captures similar images to Theo and takes his images as documentary photography, I really like his images and love the lighting/theme running through his photos.
