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These were the results of my photoshoots conducted in Scotland. I then chose specific images, which I then edited to the way I would have liked them presented in my photo-book. I am happy with some of the images made and not so happy with others as they are not what I wanted and visualised them to look like, however saying that they are still successful images and show a true representation of my granddad’s life, through documentary photography.
This is my granddad’s chair, which is located in the living room of his house, this is where he would spend most of his time and will sit on that chair for hours on end. Its sad as this seems to be all he ever does anymore, he sleeps, eats and sits on the chair watching TV or reading a book until its time to go to bed again. This chair is a huge part of my granddad’s life and he would be devastated if it were to get taken from him. This image was inspired by an image made by a photographer called Phillip Tolendeo as he captures his fathers chair in a similar fashion in his book ‘days with my father’. The chair is located next to the window as occasionally you would notice that would often look out the window almost fantasising about being outside and being free to move around willingly. This chair isn’t just a chair but represents more than this. This chair almost supports my granddad and represents his loss in freedom. Specifically, his loss in quality of life, it shows his loneliness as he relies on the chair to get him through the day and to release any physical pain he may have. The patterns on the chair shows that they are more modern in their fashion and styles as this is a more up to date theme and patterned material, which suggests they are aware of how society has changed over time. The chair is a smart, upright and elegant model, which reflects accurately to what my granddad is like as a person as he is extremely smart and witty even in his old age and he is elegant and takes pride of his appearance.
This is my granddad sitting on his chair, reading the Sunday paper which he often looks forward to doing. This is a documentary style photograph as it was a photo taken in the moment, without staging, which is a theme I tried to remain consistent throughout my photoshoots. Again, my granddad does not do much during the day, for most of the time he is sitting in his chair, which is shown in this image. This image was taken to show the activities he does to pass time in the day, it also suggests that he is aware of current issues or news in the UK as he is always reading different papers and often has his own view and take on things he listens to or reads about. I feel that he reads articles to have some sort of contact with the outside world as he has lost contact with this due to his illness and ability to walk and talk. I also feel that he might read the paper to pass time as he has hours to waste and this takes up time in his day to distract himself from pain he may feel and the thoughts of his lack of quality in his life.
This is in my granddad’s garden there are two chairs with a round table in between them, this is where my gran and granddad would sit on a warm day to watch the birds fly past as they have always been big animal fans and enjoy bird watching. They used to sit and play games to see how many they could name correct, my granddad could tell you the name of almost every bird, he has phenomenal memory. He can no longer go outside as he feels the cold significantly more than he used to. In this photograph their is a owl, which sits on the table this was already their before photographing. My gran explained that she put it there to symbolises their ‘bird watching place’ I thought this was extremely thoughtful but didn’t understand why it was still there, my gran told me she could bring herself to remove it and it brings back happy memories of times where they were both happy with their quality of life. The space between the two chairs represents the distance between my gran and granddad due to his illness and his lack of independence. Although this seems like 2 chairs and a table- this represents distances and memory.
This is a snapshot image of my granddad as he walked into his 80th birthday party as he didn’t realise 40 people would be there to celebrate with him. When he got over the initial shock, he said ‘I can’t believe this many people are all here for me.’ I feel this photograph represents emotion, my granddad never cries, however, the shock and overwhelm of the outcome brought him to tears. A part of me feels that the tears were not just for this moment but a build up of emotion and fear of leaving the world, family and friends too early and the fact he got to the age of 80 is astonishing. Although, this is not a strong image technically I feel it has represented what I wanted my book to be about.
The images are of my granddad’s glass eye, this goes in his right eye socket, he hates putting it in as it causes discomfit and pain for him. He got his eye taken out after his second stroke in an attempt to remove pain he was getting behind the eye, he had already lost his sight in that eye and he was desperate to stop the pain, he agreed to have his eye taken out and replaced with a glass eye, which was matched to the original colour of his eye. He told me that this was the hardest part of his stroke and often thinks about how he regrets making this decision as the pain is still there and the glass eye causes infections, which are again extremely painful. The box at in the bottom photograph is the box he keeps it in to protect it from damage, when in the house he takes it out and relaxes his eye, he finds this extremely soothing and relaxing, This represents the change in my granddad’s life as he has had things taken off him- his freedom, his eye, his ability to see, walk and talk as he did before.
This images shows the glass eye in, it is clear he has some sort of problem with his eye as it does not look the direction of his gaze and his head position. One eye looks at me and the other is looking down, the image is a documentary image as it was again now stages, you see my granddad sitting down , which is a common theme of his life and daily routine and will not see many times where he will be standing or walking. This image is to capture my granddad as he is- a simple portrait to show what he looks like.
The image is of a magnifying glass, which my Granddad uses when reading as he struggles to see as he currently only has one eye which he can partially see out of the other eye but not very well. He uses this to make the words bigger on page to enable him to see the words to read. Reading and learning has always been a significant element in his life, even as a young man so he does not want to give this up so therefore he uses as a way of adapting to his condition. I decided to photograph objects which were significant things in his life, this is one of them, without this he would not be able to read.
This is another image of my granddad sitting on his chair, this one he is clearly thinking about something,my Nan says he does this daily and she thinks that he is thinking about the life he used to have but whenever anyone asks him what he is thinking about he demands its nothing. Again this is demonstrating that his life is mostly him sitting on his chair. I often catch him staring into space and I am convinced he is reminiscing about how good his life used to be and how he wishes he could move. He also frequently grips his hands together, maybe to release his pain as his grip is usually tight and strong as if he is distracting his attention to other pressure instead of the pain he feels in his body.
This is my granddad’s eye patch, this is to protect his eye socket from getting infections when he is not wearing his glass eye, as this is potentially a hole or wound in his face. My granddad does not like wearing this as he finds it uncomfortable and he often calls it his pirate patch as admittedly he looks like a pirate when wearing it. He also has to get a new eye patch every few months as it gets dirty, which could result in infection this is collected from the chemist and comes with his repeat descriptions. Again, this is something he uses regularly, which is why I felt it was important to photograph this.
This is my granddad washing his eye, everyday he has to clean and wash his eye so he doesn’t get infections. This is a snapshot image and illustrates a part of his daily routine, which I wanted to capture in my photo book as this is the main theme of my book- how his life has changed due to the illness and the adaptations he has to make to his daily routine. Although the window is seen as white in the photograph due to the light reacting with the camera, the main focus is my granddad so I feel this does not matter as much as if it was a environmental or landscape photograph.
My granddad likes to have a little bet once a week, the money put on it is a very small amount but he enjoys the thrill of winning and it also gives him an element of excitement, which he does not have very often as his daily routine consists of the same activities, which can get extremely boring. He has always loved horse racing and in particular watching the horse racing and with old age he started to enjoy placing bets on the horses- this is something that brings him a thrill. This is something he looks forward to so I felt this was significant to photograph and be in my photo-book.
In this photograph my granddad is smiling, it is not often that we see this as he is often in a lot of pain, which means he is not usually happy or feels like smiling. However, he will smile, you know deep down he is trying to hide his pain, this is a genuine smile and that is what makes this image so special. This image was taken when he walked into his 80th birthday party with all his old friends and family, which he hadn’t been able to see in ages- including his sisters, his best friend, childhood friends, aunties and uncles etc. He did not expect this and he was extremely surprised, I feel this image captures that.
Although these look like sunglasses they are glasses he wears when he needs to judge distance, which is when he is walking outside and often when watching TV. The brown lenses improve contrasts and also enhances depth perception, which helps to see 3D objects. There are different colours, which help with eye sight, you can get green, which transmits all colors evenly and dims glare while brightening shadows. This is the colour my granddad used to wear before he found the brown tinted glasses worked more efficiently for him. You can also get yellow, blue/purple, grey and pink/red.
This is a snapshot portrait of my granddad, the background is blurred to direct the attention to my granddad, making him the focal point of the image.
I decided to make a collective image of all his medication he uses for various reasons- all resulting from his strokes. Every week he puts his tablets into his container so that he remembers to take them as he regularly used to forget to take them all. This way they are all in the same place and this is kept next to his bedside table, the tablets has changed his life significantly as they are extremely strong, which results in him not being allowed to drink or take any other tablets in conjunction with them. They are also evidence that he needs medical help, which is something he never needed before his strokes. The tablets are also placed in an orderly manner, which is to show the structure in his life as he has a very structured routine when it comes to his medication and medical care.
This is my granddad and his childhood best friend, this is Rusty. He appears in some of the archival photographs with my granddad as youths. I find it inspiring that they are still very good friends after 80 years. This shows that although things have changed in his life, other important things has stayed the same such as his friendships and love for his family.
I decided to take a photograph of his 80 balloons to capture the celebration of his 80th birthday. I feel that I would like to turn this black and white- increasing the contrast as I do not think this image is strong enough without editing. I will do this later when I am choosing the final images I will be presenting in my photo book.
My granddad often scratches his head, the same specific part. I never really knew why but I researched into this as I know many older individuals, which excessively scratch their skin. I found that the sensation of scratching at skin can be pleasurable for some, while others describe a feeling of tension release when scratching. It can also have a calming effect as the sensation can be soothing to the nervous system. The scratching may therefore be a response to feelings of anxiety, depression, nervousness or fear. These are all common emotions in the aging adult, compounded by the deterioration of other mental faculties such as memory. I found this extremely interesting how this was a common activity for elderly individuals and felt this was important to photograph as it is something he likes to do.
Although this is not a well put together photograph it shows my Granddad’s intelligence. He likes to watch quiz TV shows and will answer the questions himself as if he is on the show, most of those answers are right. He has always been extremely intelligent and knows everything about anything. He tell us he likes quizzing himself as “it helps keep my brain ticking over.” He has every quiz show recorded and he looks forward to watching them, especially The Chase.
Again, this is an image of my granddad scratching his head. This time you see him from a side profile, which reveals his nose, which as you can see has partly deteriorated leaving him with half a right nostril. It was the whole of the right side of his body which was mostly affected by the stroke. This image shows this.
This is a night time image of there house, I decided to edit this in photoshoot to make it more contrasted and turned into black and white. This is significant as this is where he will spend the rest of his life and they also had to move after his second stroke as he could no longer walk up the stairs and they became a difficulty to move from room to room and therefore this forced them to move to a bungalow to make it easier for my Granddad to move around the house. My granddad was devastated to leave his old house as this is where his children were brought up and he felt like there were so many memories in that house.
Another snapshot of my granddad, receiving his birthday cake- I thought this is a good documentary image of the event.
I also took images of thinks I seen round where they live. These would be objects my granddad would see when he leaves the house. This tree is located outside their house and is in clear view out of the window next to my granddad’s chair. I decided to turn it black and white and add more contrast to make it a bit eerie, which is because its something my granddad can see but will never touch as its too fair of a walk for him.
A snapshot of my granddad. I enjoyed taking these snapshot portraits of my granddad as they are all similar but also extremely different and to me this shows the different sides of him.
This is a cut down tree, which is near their house. About 10 years ago my granddad fought to keep this tree, instead of it being cut down, however he lost that battle. The tree was 15 years old and it was a beautiful feature, they cut it down to give one of the houses a sufficient view. My granddad didn’t think this was a good enough reason to cut down trees and ruin out environment and nature. This image illustrates his strong beliefs in nature.
These are all of the environment around the house and their areas as well as documentary images of my granddad.
These images are to accompany the interviews I conducted, which have now been turned into a few paragraphs about my granddad. I still have one to conduct- which is my mum. I like that they have an old and pure look to them. I also have just received some doctors notes about my granddads eye, which is the part he found the hardest. I don’t know whether to take photographs of the notes or to photocopy them to then insert into the book like Laia Abril does in her photobook.
Some of these images I would like to manipulate more to maybe turn some of them black and white.
Body Suit Photoshoot
Before the Christmas Holidays, I did a photo shoot in the photo studio at school. I decided to use this for the location because I just wanted a simple background to my images. I also wanted the use of the studio lights to highlight certain areas, and to create different shadows. I also really like the atmosphere that they created. My photo shoot was separated into three parts. For each section I slightly changed my camera settings to suit the style and atmosphere that I wanted to create.
For the first part of the shoot, I wanted to simply focus on the body itself, and the shape of it. I wanted to try and capture as many different angles and dimensions as I could. I didn’t want to focus on just one particular are of the body, such as the face. I wanted to photography every detail of the body, from the head to the feet. I wanted to do it in a creative way though, so I asked the model to make different shapes, and stand in different positions. I tried to use the shadows within the imagery to create a different perspective.
For the second part of the shoot, I included the body suit that I worked on. I was inspired by an image I saw online, and I decided I wanted to re-create something similar. To make the suit, I simply stuffed old tights with different types of material. I also included some balloons because I liked the shape they created, and the shadows they formed. The model wasn’t able to move much in the suit because it was heavy. Therefore I wasn’t able to ask the model and move and make shapes like she did in the first part of the shoot. I still manged to get a wide range of images. I really like the look the different textures create on the camera. I also really like how some of them reflect the light, and others absorb it. It created a completely different perspective that couldn’t be seen by the eye.
For the last part of the shoot, I simply used different materials to experiment with. I hadn’t planned this part, but I wanted to experiment with the materials to see what different shapes I could create. I really like the way the light reflects off the material because it creates a really cool effect. I’m really happy with some of the outcomes of this part of the shoot. The effect that the material creates is really cool, and works really well with my theme.
Significant Objects///Photoshoot 1/// Baby’s First Bible
These photos are of my old Bible that was given to me when I was really young. This really surprised me when looking at the bible as it was very difficult for me to read, even now never mind when I was a young boy. However, I wanted to use this bible as it has always stood out to me. I think this is due to it having this fairly plain look to it as well as it being so complex and hard to understand. I picked certain pages for different reasons. I also chose to take photos of the bible from side and front angles to give a real sense of what it looks like. I also wanted to capture that it’s called a “Baby’s First Bible” and it’s that intense. In a way it’s fairly comical. The bible itself is very old and was given to me when I was a part of my old church. This church was very traditional and was very different to the church we go to now. I used a white background as I wanted to capture that cream tint that shows how old the book is. It almost shows the old fashioned look, I used have on faith and outlook many people often have about God and faith. However, throughout this project I want to show how real and captivating having a relationship with God can be. Showing how I don’t belong to a religion, a set of rules, I belong to the living God.
I really wanted to show the bible itself before taking photos of the inside. This is why I took photos of the front and side angle of the book just to get a sense of what it is like. As I said before I wanted to capture the slight cream tint it has. I also wanted to another angle rather than just photography the front, this is why I photographed the bible from a side angle. Another reason I took it from this angle is because I wanted to capture the “Baby’s First Bible”. When I took photos of the inside I focused on pages and chapters that meant a lot to my mum. One of them (the one without red) was from the chapter Lamentations. This book is full of stories of people crying out to God through the hardest times in their life. To lament is a passionate expression of grief or sorrow. This book meant a lot to my family. The 3rd chapter particularly as (in some versions) it calls God their defender and lawyer. This was very significant. Another page I decided to picture was in Mark. This is due to the chapter being about the transfiguration which has some relevance but mainly because I wanted to capture the red writing as that color will play a significant role in my project. The reason it is red is because every time Jesus spoken it was written in red to show the importance of what he is saying. In previous shoots I have used red for the color of the crucifixes and want to use more often throughout my product.
Review and Reflection (Moving Forward and my Intentions)
Now fully underway with my personal investigation, I feel much more secure and comfortable at the position I am at the moment because I have has the chance to fully plan what it is I actually want to do and what it is I want to pursue and how I am actually going to do this. Although photography does till hold elements of spontaneity in that nothing is ever set in stone and happy accidents are very common when creating and editing imagery, I feel as though I can move forward confidently in my processes to gradually become closer and closer tot he point at which I feel comfortable to take my photobook. This is not for another few months however so I feel like I can use my remaining time wisely to create something visually captivating, poetically presented and something that will also challenge my comforts. Over the next month or so I will be pushing myself more and more as I progress sin order for me to benefit form these risks I plan to take. The more I reach outside of comfort bubble, I will be increasing my chances of satisfaction when something pays off and it will open new doors to me when experimenting with new styles of work. I hope to include myself much more in my images because I believe self-portraits can be and are very effective because using yourself, although difficult can be a great way of expressing yourself an telling a narrative. I will be taking inspiration from artist such as Matt Eich and LaToya Ruby Frazier for this. As well, I feel that so far in my project looking at the concept of relationships within my family and how attachment and detachment is a paramount reality within my own family, I have mostly, if not solely been photographing what an object is and what it looks like at face value and have not been exploring how something may make me feel and then responding to this in my photographs. Therefore over the next few weeks, when producing images, I will be forcing myself to visually show, for the viewers of my images, what an image is and what it looks like but more importantly, exploring deeper into this and attempting to show a less literal interpretation of this.
I believe that the exhibition, for me personally was a break and a temporary halt in proceedings to allow me stop and think what I now want to do moving forward with my project but because I did not use any imagery from my current work for my personal investigation, I was working on this in the background. I haven’t really has the chance yet to look at all my images, although from my shoots, I have chosen my final and edited these as I wish, I haven’t been able to thoroughly self-asses my own work because of my focus on getting images ready for the exhibition. Therefore, I will look over my images and try to make observations of what it is I want to do in my current state – I feel like I am temporarily a little lost and need to find my feet again in terms of what to do to progress bit I am happy with what I am doing thus far as it has set me up for the remainder. However, I feel like I can easily set myself too much to do because of al the ideas that are constantly running through my head and must not let this overrun me so it is important that I take a step at a time whilst still challenging myself in my creative processes.
(collection of images already produced)
I intend to look at my inspirations closely in order to benefit my own outcomes and will analyse their skills in composing their own images for me to get an idea of how this can be interpreted into my work. Looking at these photographers I have previously analysed will better my understanding of ways I can become more creative and in-turn better my work. The themes of my inspirations work are also similar to mine and so I can derive meanings out of their work to also hopefully give me some ideas on what I can do. For example, I hope to produce a similar family-tree-like presentation of my own family as Rita Puig Serra Costa does at the beginning of her book looking at the loss of her mother. Using thumbnail portraits of my own family members at beginning of my book set-out like a family tree will be perfect to show the idea relationships and connections and the familial bubble/circle. Also, I intend to become more poetic and metaphorical in my work through looking at that of Matt Eich’s project ‘I Love You I’m Leaving’ which also explores how a divorce can be tragic but how you’ve got to stride forward and continue, with your own loved ones, to create your own memories. It also underpins the idea of making you as the photographer the centre point and telling the story from your perspective, which I hope to do more of.
The themes I want to delve deeper into are that of attachment and detachment and the idea of losing an identity, as well as memories of my mum and dad from when I was younger and the fragility of love and growing up which will be explored through my relationships with my girlfriend and my sister.
(collection of images already produced)
My aim is to also produce imagery that will in-turn eventually work together as whole and as a collective which tells a visual story because this is what I am wary of at the moment and what I am cautious of because my photobook needs to be a story and a journey of how my parents divorce when I was so young has now influenced my upbringing and how I live my onw life in relations to what my mum and dad are now doing with their own lives. I am going to aim to produce images to work as a collective and not in isolation of each other. I will collaborating with my subjects and it is a project that will be something for them to also look back on and appreciate so I want to do this project justice. It encapsulates a subject that is often seen as a taboo – divorce. People feel very wary and awkward to bring this up and talk about it because it involves heartbreak and often hatred for the other half if it was a painful break-up. I want to show it in a more positive light and present myself as the centre of this divorce – not a cause but somebody who has been impacted by this but have not let it affect my life in a way that I have found myself in a position of loneliness and instead, I am surrounded by a more cohesive family. I will also be contrasting events – I will be attempting to show how my mum and ads relationships is similar and different to that of mine and Lucy’s relationships because my mum fell in love at 16 also. As well, I will comparing and contrasting the life of myself at 4 when my parents split to tat of Minnie’s life now – she was also 4 when her mum and dad split, however, for this to be clear, it will be up to the audience’s interpretation of what I show. I will provide the ingredients and it is the viewers choice on how to decode this – an aspect that I enjoy because I do not wish to show direct meanings and present a full dimensional outlook – it will partly fragmented and it is up to the viewer to put it together.
(collection of images already produced)
Shoot w/ Lucy
Shoot w/ Archival Material
Archival Photos///Edited
Here is a selection of old family photos I have manipulated by using different mediums such as pastels, pencils and other objects such as plastic. Each photograph has different meaning usually relating to faith or something else I felt was relevant. I then chose the three I liked the most and put them large below. Making these photos I was trying to showing a spiritual aspect to the world we live in that we can’t always see. The shadow people represent the devil and/or demons. The red crucifix represents Jesus and/or the word (bible) basically the thing that protects us from the things that are trying to bring the worst out of us. The reason I made it red to represent the blood spilled by Jesus that we, as Christians believe that he did. This is all very metaphorical which is what I was trying to achieve. I could tell you what it means to me however I would also like the viewer to take their meanings away from it. This is why I am not going into too much detail when describing these photos. All these are meant to look as if a child has drawn them as I feature in each photo as a young child. It’s showing a darkness contrast with an innocence of a child.
This photo is showing myself being dragged away from my mum (arm in the bottom right corner) by this shadow like figure. This was meant to represent how the devil is trying to split up families, trying to make them feel separate and alone. The devil hates unity because there is strength in the that. When the accident happened, that’s exactly what could have taken place.
For the photo above I drew a red crucifix over my great grandmother. My great grandmother is such a strong women of God and has such a unrelenting faith that has been tested throughout the years but has become stronger throughout that time. My great grandmother now has dementia and throughout the situation with my mum she still knew exactly what to say. I think is because she has such a strong faith in God, he is almost telling her what to say even when her brain can’t. She gets up everyday 5 o clock in the morning and reads her Bible. She can quote scripture off the top of her head, as well as sing hymns she hasn’t listened to in almost 10 years. She has such a deep-rooted faith. In this photo she is the only one to be seen giving thanks for her food. This is why I drew a red cross over her as it’s almost as if she is has it protecting her from anything that gets thrown at her.
This is a photo of myself and my brother standing next a sunflower. Using pastels I put a shadow figure in the background off in the distance, I also used red pencil to turn that sunflower into a red crucifix. This is showing that darkness or devil waiting to strike almost haunting us. However, we are protected by the red cross that our parents helped us plant. In other words our parents brought us to church from an early age planted a seed that later was up to us if we want to carry on with church and if we believed in God. Those little things like reading bible stories and taking us to Sunday school allowed us to understand and protect us from other things that may not have been helpful to us. It also gave us enough knowledge to make our own decision. The shadow figure is there to show that there is always something trying to drag us away from our faith.
These archival photos that capture my attention. Some of them captured my attention as some of them look as if a mistake was taken. However, this is why I like those kinds of photos as because of the “mistake” it makes the photo more interesting, I also was able to put a meaning with those images. The other image do not have mistakes however they are significant. I like this image, personally I know that the people in the photo are myself and my father. However, due to what seems to be a thumb over the lens the main thing that makes a persons identity and allows to be identified in a photo (the face) has been taken away. This made me think of how since the accident a parts of our identity has changed.
This image does not have a mistake however it is significant. As it is showing my mum, myself and my brother a long time ago before anything happened. I like this photo a lot.
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Images from Canon Prima AS-1 Film
From my point and shoot camera, the Canon Prima AS-1, I have developed my first roll of film and the images achieved from the roll of 36 exposures were both successful but unsuccessful considering this is the first time I have used the camera – a handful of the images were not of good quality as the flash was stunned in images where it didn’t need to be, resulting in low quality images where subjects are washed out. However, most of the images came out very well, including the ones below, which I intend to use in my project as diptychs. I will use this first experience with my retro camera as a learning curve where I was getting use to how it works and what the best settings were, even though it is a point and shoot. I will, next time, use the flash on lesser occasions to get sharper and clearer images.
The roll of film developed was used gradually over the period of about 3 months and of these 36 exposures, quite a few were from mine and my girlfriend’s trip to Sark, our neighbouring island for a couple of days. The first 4 images you see below are from this trip and are 4 images I hope to use in my project to represent an aspect of mine and my girlfriend’s relationship.
The first set of images consists of two photographs, a portrait of Lucy on the sunny day it was with a seascape as the background. The second image of this particular diptych is of the seascape alone where you can see a couple of rocks within the ocean and, in the foreground, some greenery from the cliff we were on. I believe these two images work well together as it shows a portrait and then the landscape which as originally partly blocked by the portrait – this I s why they work well together as they include the same colours and same content. The two images below are full of vibrant colours as well as shadows and dark contrasts.
The two images below act as my second diptych from our time in Sark, however, this time, the subject I myself and it follows the same sequence as before. The first image is a portrait of myself, taken by Lucy and it is a side profile of me looking out to a landscape, on a different day to the above occasion.
The second image below the portrait is of the landscape I ma looking out at. It follows the same concept as the above images where the portrait is the primary image and then the full landscape is revealed.
As to as taken on a different day to the above images, the colour palettes and temperatures are different and this time, the look is more gazed – as if the colours are more faded out and there was less sun on this day as it looks more foggy and misty but this adds a different mood to the diptych – one which presents a variety of washed out neutrals of beige, white and greys in the sky bit also in the sea.
I believe that the images below can also work in a diptych, however, they may look better presented separately considering they are of two different scenes.
The first is an image, taken on a day out to Tamba Park with my sister and girlfriend. It’s an image which includes myself and my sister at the top of a slide in the park. You can see myself looking, smiling at Minnie while she pulls a cheesy grin to the camera.
The second image includes Lucy and Minnie both mid-laugh as Minnie slides down the fireman’s pole – an image I love but could do with cropping a little. They both, again, show relationships between us all – my relationship with Minnie and Minnie’s relationship with Lucy. The sense of intimacy as well as fun and playfulness is the underlying theme in thee two photographs and they work well to show the notion of being young again and enjoying yourself – youth prevails. It can also be a metaphorical reverse of my childhood when I used to play in parks with my parents. Now, me being the adult, I find myself being a child again with my own sister at such a tender age she is at – she reminds me of myself and this is representative in the first image of myself looking at her as we prepare to launch ourselves down the slide.
This was another image I came across from the roll of film developed which I had forgotten I had taken but shows the process of when myself, my mum and my step-dad moved house form St Brealde’s to Grouville. The image frames the pick-up truck we used to transfer old and unwanted furniture to the dump. It is an image which may useful when encapsulating the use of loss at the very start when looking at my mum and dad’s divorcee – as we pack up our belongings and prepare to lead a new life somewhere else with new surroundings. We are getting rid of unwanted things and it reiterates the idea of being attached to something so dearly but eventually, you have to let go of that thing which was so important in your life – a house or a partner.
These images remind of that of Arno Brignon’s from her series focusing on her daughter, Josephine due to the graininess which I achieved from the film camera and the vibrant yet hazed colour palettes with observations of darkened contrasts.