Essay question: How have artists such as Toroptsov shown memory and remembrance through their use of photography.

Opening quote: UNDECIDED – “I have no personal memories”

Introduction (250-500 words):  What is your area study? Landscapes/Historical landmarks.
Which artists will you be analysing and why?
Yury Toroptsov as he links to both landscape work and memory/remembrance.
How will you be responding to their work and essay question?
Through using landscape photography to capture the idea of memory and remembrance of the war like he has with his father by photographing his home town.

Pg 1 (500 words): Historical/ theoretical context within art, photography and visual culture relevant to your area of study. Make links to art movements/ isms and some of the methods employed by critics and historian.
Going to try and begin with a modernist approach within my photography but may change it up as I go along.
May use archival images to show historical/theoretical context within my work.

Pg 2 (500 words): Analyse first artist/photographer in relation to your essay question. Present and evaluate your own images and responses.
Yury Toroptsov, focus on his “deleted scenes” project – about his father – links best to memory/remembrance, uses lots of landscape photography.

Pg 3 (500 words): Analyse second artist/photographer in relation to your essay question. Present and evaluate your own images and responses.
Chris Dorley-Brown and his book The Long Way Round – also about his parents, love during the war and after the war.

Conclusion (250-500 words): Draw parallels, explore differences/ similarities between artists/photographers and that of your own work that you have produced.
Refer back to each artists work, then compare it to how I have made mine and whether it truly represents the idea of memory and remembrance like theirs have.

Bibliography: List all relevant sources used:
Academic sources blogpost, will add them within the photobook essay.