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personal project PHOTO SHOOTS planner

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Introduction

For my personal project i will need some photographs to include but in order to achieve that i will need to plan my photo shoots first, but unfortunately the idea of my personal project restricts me from being able to get many photographs as my personal project is about something that is past and not present so there’s not much i can photograph as its all gone now but i will be able to take photographs of objects or archival photographs that where already taken by someone else who was there in the past and past it on to me or my family.

First photo shoot

I will be going back to Jordan in Christmas but unfortunately i’m only going there for 3 days because my reason of visit limits me from staying there for longer, and i will be very occupied all day for the three days so i don’t have much opportunity to go out and do a photo shoot so i will be taking photographs of objects related to the project in my own home, the only thing i’m sure of is my knife that was given to me by Abu Ali who inherited it from the guy my project is about.i will be taking the photo shoot using my phone as i have no access to a camera, i will lay the knife down on a white paper and adjust the light to get a florescent white light.

Interviews

My secondary data will be collecting information and stories about Mashhoor Al Jazi to add up to my personal project and to do that i am going to be interviewing people that are related to him and ask the questions. down below is a list of the people that i’m going to interview and what i’m going to ask them:

  1. Hamzah Al Jazi (grandson): How many years do you remember with him? How did his death affect you? Is there any personal stories you want to share about him? How would you describe Mashhoor in one sentence? Are you proud of your family history because of Mashhoor’s accomplishments?
  2. Wael Mattar (old friend): For how long did you know Mashhooor? Did you have any accomplishments with him? Does knowing the fact that Mashhoor was your friend make you proud? How often did you used to see him? What did you do when you where with him? How would you describe Mashhoor in one phrase?
  3. Eman Mattar (daughter in law):How close where you to Mashhoor? since your the closest one to Abu Ali how would you describe Abu Ali’s condition was when Mashhoor died?

Conclusion:

After collecting all my data which include the photo shoots and my interviews i will arrange it all on different blog post for all of them to create one whole project and in the end i will create a summery blog post to make it as a final piece.

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Photoshoot 1 – people

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For one of my photo shoots I took images of my family members and friends, from both London and Jersey, over the course of a few days. It was conducted over the Christmas holiday in Jersey while my family gathered to celebrate Christmas. These photo shoots were based off of the photographers Walker Evans and Latoya Ruby Frazier, who both took images of families for their series. For my photos I aimed to take images of as many of my family members as possible when they visited Jersey for the Christmas holidays.

A few images from my photoshoots :

Contact sheet

Chosen images :

Final edits :

Analysis image :

My response to Latoya Ruby Frazier

In this black and white image you can see a boy, my brother, being shown something on a phone by someone out of the picture. Since the background around him has been blurred slightly, you are able to easily focus on his face without being distracted by the environment around him.

This image was taken when my family from London came over to Jersey for the Christmas holiday. The boy in the image is my brother and this was when my family and I went out for dinner the night before they left to go back to London. This image is a response to one of the photographers I will be looking at in my essay, Latoya Ruby Frazier, who is a photographer who took images of her family within their home when there was an economic crisis happening in their town of Braddock, Pennsylvania.

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Francesca research

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Francesca Woodman was an American photographer known for her black-and-white self-portraits. Despite her short career, which ended with her suicide at the age of 22, Woodman produced over 800 untitled prints. Influenced by Surrealism and Conceptual Art, her work often featured recurring symbolic motifs such as birds, mirrors, and skulls. The artist’s exploration of sexuality and the body is often compared to both Hans Bellmer and Man Ray. Woodman’s work is also characterized by her use of long shutter speed and double exposure, the blurred image creating a sense of movement and urgency, “Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner …?” Woodman once stated. Born on April 3, 1958 in Boulder, CO to the artists George and Betty Woodman, she went on to attend the Rhode Island School of Design and traveled to Rome as part of its honors program in 1977. While in Rome, she made some of her most poetic and provocative works. Moving to New York in 1979 to pursue a career in photography, the next two years proved to be troubled for the artist. A lackluster response to her photography and a failed relationship pushed her into a deep depression. The artist jumped to her death from a loft window on January 19, 1981 in New York, NY.