In my shoot responding to my manifesto I will be focusing on rules number 3,4 and 7.
- Rule #3 – I will take inspiration from Henrik Malmstrom’s ‘A Minor Wrongdoing’ by taking photographs that do not fit within the conventions of photography.
- Rule #4 – I will question whether the technicalities and conventions of society, photography and day-to-day life are necessary.
- Rule #7 – I will take inspiration from Lewis Bush’s work on ‘Metropole’ in the sense of use of double exposure.
I am focusing on these rules as they allow me to further explore the work I have done on Lewis Bush and Henrik Malmstrom through the use of techniques and styles of photography that both photographers have used in their shoots. I plan on taking inspiration from Henrik Malmstrom by further developing on my shoot in which I took high-ISO grainy photographs which questioned the technicality rule of photography. I plan on merging this inspiration with inspiration from Lewis Bush by editing the photographs to create the effect of double exposure that Bush used in his project ‘Metropole’. The combination of these two inspirations will allow be to follow rule four and question whether the technicalities and conventions of society and photography are necessary as well as incorporating political landscape further. As seen in this post, I will be creating double exposure photographs using grainy photographs of individuals minding their own business in order to show and convey the idea that the Islanders are feeling disorientated and lost – both because of the fast development in their island and because they are getting lost in their own business to the point where they do not realise people are observing and watching them