My contextual focus of my Personal investigation has been researching and discussing the different impacts that non -government organisations have on third world countries. Although i can portray this concept in my portraiture shoots i think that it would be useful to do a shoot specifically focusing on the impact charitable organisations have. This shoot is going to be the most open shoot where im not going to be so specific with my planning and what i aim to capture. I am going to take a more vernacular approach of photography for this shoot, capturing documentary style images of the community life in Burkina Faso.
The best way to show how the project that i am participating in is to capture images of previous builds which have been completed during the project and also document the new building that i am taking part in building. The building site will have a massive part in telling a narrative story through documentation of each day the Nursery project progresses and how it brings in work for the local men and keeps the children that don’t go to school busy. It will also show their sense of community and how willing they are to help their community develop and grow. With the use of Venacular photography i hope to capture the community and environment in its most natural form, not staging anything. This will create another series of images which differentiates from the more formal photography techniques i will be using for other shoots.
| Genre | Venacular Phtography -the creation of photographs that take everyday life and common things as subjects. |
| Concept | · Capture photographs of the impact that the Freedom charity project has on the community in Burkina Faso
· Taking pictures of the past buildings that have been completed and the children/ adults that are now receiving education/occupation due to these buildings. · Capture the work actually building is giving · Meet with the mums that the Nursery will impact · |
| Subject | · People – documentary style, they don’t have to be looking at the camera – some might just be building and I’ve documented that moment
· Previous buildings · Location/ suroundings/environment · Local community photographs captured in vernacular form · Compassion day – how beneficial this project is to developing the children rather than just handing things to them. |
| Composition | Composition to be thoughtful but not specifically played and moving the subjects so that the composition has been manipulated to construct a staged image.
– Take photos in a blind way – don’t plan what they are going to be but work with the environment and the photo opportunities which present themselves. |
