What am I photographing?

For this particular set of images, I mainly focused on the driving aspect of youth culture. A driver’s license typically marks the ‘coming of age’ for adolescents; the transition from the dependent nature of childhood to the responsibility and freedom that’s accompanied with adulthood. I aimed to capture the pleasures and frustrations of repairing or customising a car. Additionally, I aimed to photograph the abuse of freedom that’s common in youth. I am to carry out a shoot including the boot of a car, overloaded with alcoholic cans and bottles. This represents the careless driving aspect of my project, which I will accompany with a collected parking notice earlier on in the photobook.

Some other images I plan to capture, are candid portraits, images of injuries and finally of landscapes to add a sense of location to the project.

Selection process

Considering the large amount of images I started out with, I went through each photo and flagged the best quality ones. I rejected images that I felt had no relevance to the project, that were bad quality, blurred or had a bad composition. Having flagged all the images above, I went through each image colouring it either red, yellow or green: a traffic light system to sort which images I disliked, which images I was undecided on and which images I was 100% certain on.

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Finally, I rated each of the images either 4 stars or 5 stars. Rating the images with 5 stars indicated to me that these were the images I was certain on using for the project and 4 stars indicated images that I still thought were good but am less likely to use. Rating the images with 4 stars allows me to return to the images should the 5 star photos not work in my photo-book.

Selection Process

For another shoot, I had 161 photos to filter through. Using the same process as before, I narrowed my photo-shoot set down to

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