Shoot one:

For my first shoot I want to begin by photographing my grandmother. My grandfather was married to my grandmother for fifteen years, they had eight children together and remained very close friends after their divorce. When my grandfather died my grandmother found it very difficult to deal with, they were very close and she knows him as a husband and best friend. I think through photographing my grandmother I can grasp an understanding of an aspect of my grandfather’s life. I also want to interview her in order to figure out my grandfather’s life further and ask some more in depth questions which I haven’t had the option to ask before. I think this particular shoot is really important as it allows me to photograph someone invisible through another person.

Shoot two:

For my second shoot I want to begin to photograph objects which remind me of my grandfather. For example, letters, pottery, frames, flowers, foods, smells and special moments I shared with him. I think through photographing these items I can reconstruct my grandfather’s life. I want to cover my grandfather’s entire life, his childhood, his marriage, he jobs, his children and his grandchildren. I have found Abril’s work incredibly inspiring and influential. She managed to capture the invisible perfectly, Abril included lots of images of objects in order to tell the story. For example, she included medication and significant items like scales.

Shoot three:

For my third shoot, I am going to look through all of the archival images I have of my grandfather and family so I can include it in the book. A major flaw in my previous project was that I relied heavily on this style of image, however, I think it is important to have these photographs in the book as they represent my grandfather’s life. Laia Abril used archival images in her work The Epilogue it clearly worked extremely well and supported her other photographs.