When starting our first topic for the A2 course we were given the title ‘Chance, Change and Challenge’. I think that this is a very fitting title for this section of our course work. I think this because we are being encouraged to change from our usual photographing way’s and to experiment with the use of film, and the interaction with the public. This is very different from our work from our AS photography work- as we were doing more traditional photography in a studio.

We are challenging ourselves to take part in different activities in the middle of a public place to gain a reaction from the public. These activities were encourages to be outside of the box and against social norm. An example of this was whilst we were in St Malo, we bought a large rug that we laid out in the middle of the main square of restaurants and sat on it and meditated. Doing something which is very different in a public space can be seen as a scary experience because of the fear of what other people will think.

The chance from ‘Chance, Change and challenge’ means to me that we should give changing our way of photography a chance, whether that is changing the manual functions of the camera, or what we decide to photograph, or what format we decide to capture our photography in (Film, photographs ect). By giving the element of ‘change’ a change, may befit out work and produce something amazing. Or it may produce something rubbish yet help us develop as a photographer.