I went through my old family albums to see how my family took images when i was younger. Some of these images are from when i was little and some are from when my little sister was born. I think that it is interesting to have both of these types of these images in as they show how through time how my family changed taking there images, but also how some of the images are similar even though they are taken around 9 years apart. Most of these images are taken in different settings and some of the images are of better quality than others. I think that the images look really interesting when the quality of them is not that good, as it makes the images look more individual and different from other how other typical photographers take family photographs. These are just some of my family images that i have that show how my family life and how my family take portrait images of one another. 
Monthly Archives: October 2015
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Documentary photography- Family theme:
- Answer questions on the standards and ethics post, add them into current post.
- Photo-Assignment- produce a shoot of the ideas I have discussed in my planning posts.
- Produce contact sheet of the best images from my shoots.
- Evaluate and annotate responses.
- Presentation.
- Extend the view on Tom Pope’s exhibition.
Documentary photography- Community theme:
- Review specification.
- Second photo-Assignment.
- Produce contact sheet of the best images from my shoots.
- Evaluate and annotate responses.
- Presentation.
What is community?
What is community?
The definition of a community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. I think this explanation is some what vague, in my opinion a community is also a sense of togetherness, it is a support network. When looking at the theme of community it is important to point out community can be approached as a value. It brings together several elements for example, trust, commitment and mutuality. Socialists for example William Morris tend to relate the term community to fellowship. ‘Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell.’ I think when considering the theme of community it is vital to focus on the reliance people feel or the need of community that is lacked in certain societies. To begin I shall research the idea of place, geographical elements may form territorial or place community. Secondly, the idea of interest communities is when individuals share a similar characteristic. They can be linked together by religious belief, ethnic origin, occupation, interests or sexual orientation.
Four week plan
Week one: 12th -18th October
- Mind map of the theme community
- photoshoot for the theme of community
- present photographs
Week two: 19th-25th October
- Finish community work
- Do another shoot of my grandparents
- case Study of Atlantus
Week three:26th-1st November
- Archive work; grandparents old house and Fathers life
- Present and analyse shoot work from grandparents and archive work.
Week four: 2th- 9th November
- Bring all of work together, and tie them together in a post
- Explore a piece of research for community
Tracking Sheet
Mr T Tracking Sheet
I want everyone to complete an audit of what you have completed, what you need to do to improve AND WHAT YOU HAVEN’T DONE!
Once filled in upload to your blog
You can also find it here in the TO DO folder on Silverstore
M:\Departments\Photography\Students\Resources\Documentary & Narrative\TO DO
Use following colour code:
GREEN = all complete
YELLOW = incomplete and write what you need to do to improve
RED = not done at all
Some of you are doing really well at staying on task with work and others are falling too far behind. For those of you who only have done a few blog posts your Study Periods will be used for extra lessons. I WILL COME AND FIND YOU!
However, extra sessions are available for everyone to come and work in my classroom
ideas for community:
Martin Parr – Bored couples
- Town.
- Dance communities E.g. Zumba.
- Madeira – Jersey connection E.g. people from Madeira that live in Jersey.
- Group of people with same interests.
ideas for faith:
- Religious people.
- Church.
- Differences in religion between people.
- Certain Beliefs.
- Having a belief in a unproved thing.
- Ideological views.
- People’s personal items and their significance E.g. Crucifix.
Ideas for family:
- Family albums and recreate them.
- Compare old pictures to current ones, such as baby pictures.
- Action shots.
- Document how the environment has changes, for example inside the house.
- Action shots.
- Special occasions like birthdays.
- Weddings.
- Baptisms.
- Different Perspectives.
- Insider point of view.
- Outsider point of view.
- Staged pictures.
- Pictures that aren’t staged.
- Mini documentary short film.
- Short interviews.
- Candid’s of family member’s.
- Notion of love.
- Explore secrets on a certain level.
- Show their beliefs.
- Close friends, how they can think of themselves as family.
- What made them friends.
- Explore their interests.
- Private and public things.
- Diary.
- Sacred objects or things to family members.
- Follow them round for a certain time period, like on the streets.
- Document their hobbies and everyday life.
- Look at their addictions, like alcoholism.
- Positive and negative moments, like arguments and affection shown.
- Look at extended and close family.
- Ask to photograph other people’s families.
- Admire their different cultures and environment.
- Moments in people’s life’s.
- Snapshots.
- Compare and contrast differences between other people’s families and mine.
- Look at difference between my families culture and another one’s.
- Obsessions or collections of certain things – magazines, books, alcohol, clutter, hoarders.
- bored couples -martin parr
- social media taking oveer family time
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY – FAMILY – SHOOT IDEA:
