Here you will see my final prints, which I plan on mounting on foam board. I wanted to mount on foam board -instead of cutting a window mount for example- because my personal study is essentially a story. This means a foam board will be more suitable because it allows greater flow, and is not as strict and put in place as a window mount. Each image is going to represent a different point in the narrative, which I will explain below.
This image was changed into black and white, the exposure was decreased and the contrast was increased. I decreased the exposure because when i made the image black and white, the scene in the frame looked was too washed out and bright. I then increased the contrast to go with this, in order to make the hands, and rings more prominent. This archival image symbolises my parent’s marriage, and by making it black and white it also represents separation. This is because the filter represents how it is in the past. Since this is quite a large and important event it will be printed in A5.
original image
final image
I wanted this image of my dad’s Jersey registration card to represent immigration. Since the foam board I plan to use will be white, I wanted to make sure this stood out a lot so I increased the contrast helping to make it pop more, and not be washed out by the larger images since this will be printed in A3.
original image
final image
Below are the selection of images I will be printing and mounting:
what my final piece will look like:
Overall, I believe my final display is quite successful. To represent the fact that my personal study is a story, I used a foam board and essentially arranged my images in a “story board” format as I thought this would be a way to express the narrative with more freedom. The top of the display shows an image of both my parents at in their late teens/early 20s and this represents them first meeting. Down the side on the left, there are certain objects and documents that play a role in the story. We can see an immigration card which represents them moving to Jersey, and further down an image of both mine and my brother’s hospital wristbands given to us the day we were born represent how they started a family. The final image is perhaps the more symbolic and metaphoric. It is an image of my parent’s hands, showing their wedding rings the day they were married. This is placed right at the bottom on the right hand side to represent the end of the narrative, very similar to how an actual written story would end. This image conveys a double meaning since it shows how they got married, but since it is in black and white it also represents their divorce as the filter represents something in the past, that is no longer. I also used sizing to represent the importance of each event, The bigger the image, the most significance it has to the narrative.
