Overall I have learnt from the selection of work I have produced so far that it is not archival work, which I want to focus on in my photo book. Although, there will still be an element of this within my  study I would like to introduce more documentary work- this will consist of 4 mini photo shoot, which will all be conducted in Scotland. Saying that, some of my archival work I feel is successful in showing loss and these will be used in my photo book.  I feel like I will however used raw archival images in my book as well as subtly editing some more of the images in a similar way as I have up to this point. Some of the images I will be using in my book, I feel these are my most successful photographs from my exhibition work, these will be joined together with new photographs I will be making- new images made in Scotland.

This last image I have another image similar, which I did not edit. It is conducted and produced in the same way as it one I have presented as an edited image, The middle figure is their mother and this obe is their father. I would like to put these two images together in my photo book, perhaps on the same page as I feel this image was successful I will edit it in the same way I have edited this one. This images represents loss and I feel the two images would work well together as a pair. This is the original image I will be editing to link with this one.

This is the edited one:

Moving forward I am happy to stick to the original theme of loss- absence and presence. I would like to edit more archival photographs slightly and choose the photographs I will be using in my photo-book and also making sure they are all a-lined and are the way I want them to be to fit the theme of my photo-book. I will carefully choose these, making sure they link and display my idea accurately. I have about 200 archival photographs and I will have to probably narrow this done to as little as 20, as I will be including the photoshoots I will be conducting in the next few days. The 4 mini photoshoots will consist of 1 photoshoot dedicated to taking documentary images of my granddad’s daily routine, another photoshoot being documentary also as I will be taking ‘action’ photographs at his 80th birthday party, A different photoshoot being of objects and the last one being of the portraits of the individuals who conducted the interviews. For the photoshoot not yet conducted my main inspirations will be Phillip Toledano with his project entitled ‘Days with my Father’ and Laia Abril with her project called ‘The Epilogue’ research into their work was conducted previously in my blog post called Artist References, this also includes my main influence for my current work, which is Liz Steketee. Also what parts specifically I was inspired by is also identified in a previous blog post called Linking Exhibition finals to Artist Reference