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My Family Archive

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After learning about the Jersey photo archive we were assigned the task of looking into our own family archives. I decided to look into my Dad’s photo timeline and trying to collect a selection of photographs showing him through his life.  After looking through mine and my grandparents selection of photographs the earliest photograph I managed to find of my dad was a picture from 7 and a half months old.

I then found some more photographs of my dad’s childhood; School Photographs, when he first got his glasses, pictures of him and his brothers ect.

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IMG_9835 (1) 7 1/2 months old.
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11 months old.
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This is my dad at the age of three, and he is wearing black leather lederhosens.
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My dad considers his getting glasses at the age of 4 1/2 years a big moment in his life.
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This is my dad and his two brothers in their primary school photo at Trinity school. My was 10 years old.
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This is my dad when he first met my mum, he was in his young twenties.
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This is my dad during his travelling years. He often talks about his days when he was travelling the world and see’s it as one of his greatest adventures.
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This is my Dad when he first graduated.
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This is my dad and his side of the family on his wedding day. With his three brother, Parents and and grandmother.
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My Mum and Dad on their wedding day.
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Our first family photo.
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“Heroin Chic”

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Corinne Day flourished in the 90’s, her photographs brought to live the ‘look’ that was going around called ‘Heroin Chic’.

Heroin chic was a look popularized in mid-1990s fashion and characterized by pale skin, dark circles underneath the eyes and angular bone structure. The look, characterised by emaciated features and androgyny, was a reaction against the “healthy” and vibrant look of models such as Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer. A 1996 article in the Los Angeles Times stated that the fashion industry had “a nihilistic vision of beauty” that was reflective of drug addiction and the U.S. News and World Report called the movement a “cynical trend”.

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Corinne photographed people such as ‘Tara’ who is the inspiration for her book ‘Diary’, Abusing drugs over a two year period. Corinnes images are very explicit in some as they show drug prep and nudity. All of her images produced the same aesthetic of hard core party scene images.

The look ‘Heroin Chic’ was categorized for  people with pale skin, dark circles underneath the eyes and angular bone structure, typically female models. Corinnes images replicated this look as she photographed ‘Tara’ throughout her sober live and her drug live.

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The two images above from Days book ‘Diary’, are two of my favorite. This is because they are the two photographs that have shown ‘Tara’ is her happiest state and her worst state. These images also show clearly the ‘heroin Chic Look’ as ‘Tara’ appears skinny, defined bone structure and also has dark/red circles under her eyes.

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Julian Germain

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‘For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness’

A series of photographs made over 8 years of the quiet existence of Charles Snelling, an elderly man living alone in a small house in Portsmouth, shown alongside pages from Snelling’s own albums. Charles Albert Lucian Snelling (Charlie) spent the last years of his life absorbed in his memories of his wife, his children, his love for flowers, music and the daily pleasures of the crossword, and his albums of his own photographs. Germain’s photographs of Charlie, his home and the things he owned are a beautiful, gentle portrait of a gentleman in his twilight years.

I love his work as the photographs are so bright and colourful, even though the context is quite upsetting, the photographs represent a more positive light. My favourite photograph is the picture below because I love the colour popping in it, his old fashioned car is so cute and I love the colour. Also the expression in his face makes me smile as it portrays a positive vibe. I love the idea of how the book has memory’s from their marriage from his personal photo album, it gives it a special touch and makes it more personal to Charles which is really sweet. He has inspired me to put my own family memory’s from our personal album into my final book as it will make it more personal to me and give it that extra touch that will make it more family orientated. Also, the use of colour popping has really interested me as I would like to have a contrast of old black and white photographs and then  bright colourful pictures in my final piece.

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What defines family?

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“LIVING TOGETHER”

“RELATED BY BLOOD OR MARRIAGE”

“THE CHILDREN OF A PERSON OR COUPLE”

“ALL THE DESCENDANTS OF A COMMON ANCESTOR”

The above quotes are just some of the information i found.  I feel these quotes are a description of family that is from a stereotypical view. Which is perfectly normal, and what i was expecting when researching. However,  I feel as though Family can be many things. It can be a group of close friends, teaching classes, people that share a common interest, or a family of material things. Family can be described in many ways and also perceived and shown in many ways too. Blood relative families have a unique dynamic, this is because your are ‘blood related’. You fight but always forgive and love eachother no matter how severe the fight.

I can closely relate to a family in the form of a ‘Friendship Family’. Family friendships have a very similar dynamic. You fight, just like blood families and you also always make up and forgive eachother. The fights may be worse and over longer periods of time, but you always do eventually make up and forgive.