As further experimentation to the idea of family photography and the difference between documentary and tableaux and the links with family and archives, i decided to do a mini project. When i think of archives i think of my mums photo albums that she used to make when i was younger and they were full of images of the most important events and celebrations of that specific year. As these were also printed out images i wanted to replicate this as much as possible and therefore got a disposable camera because then they will have that old style film camera look. Linking again to family photography i am going to focus on capturing the most important events and celebrations that i experience in the month of september with my family and friends(which is like another family). the challenge of the film camera is that it has a set number of exposures therefore i have to make sure to only take a few good photos at each event. I feel this will extend my photographic ability as i will be having to think about the images that i want to capture and the placement of these images.

The photographs will become a mixture of archival images which are both documentary and tableaux because i am assuming that some will be taking very much in the moment and some i may get a group of people to gather round to get a ‘family style’ photograph.

These are the final outcomes of my shoot i had them developed at the end of September and found that i was being so careful with what images i captured that i didn’t even use all of the exposures. I really enjoyed doing a shoot/ mini project in this style because it has left me with archival images of my family and friends which are pictures of important and significant events but only a few key images. The shoot links back to the idea of family archives as these images will now become my archives of September 2017 which i will keep and be able to look back on similarly to what my mum had created when i was younger.

In my opinion this style of archive focuses more on tableaux photography as the images have had to be staged in a way to get a group of my family/friends to stand together and look at the camera. This is a true representation of what most family albums (archives) are created from and brings a real sense of family to my images.