STORY: What is your love story?
Describe in:

• 3 words- A love story.
• A sentence- My relationship with my dad through our shared love of horses.
• A paragraph- My love of horses was sparked by my dad who wanted me to have a sport, a hobby. I took this to the the extreme and spent years and years spending time around horses. My obsession was at the expensive of everything else, family, friends and school work. Mine and my dads shared love of nature has meant that we spend hours at a time trailing through lanes and fields, me on my horse and my dad on foot with a dog.

NARRATIVE: How will you tell your story?

• Images > horses on the yard, yard jobs, landscapes taken while out horseriding, portraits of my dad, self portraits and at shows.
• Archives > photographs of me and my old horses
• Texts > text messages between me and my dad, quotes and things I have one

AUDIENCE: Who is it for?

• For myself
• For people who love horses and nature
• For people who have a love for horses and have neglected other parts of their life.

love mood board

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love definitions

‘an intense feeling of deep affection’

‘a great interest or pleasure in something’

WILLIAM COLLIE took portraits of working class people in Jersey. He used the Fox Talbots calotype process and was the first in Jersey to do this. Collie had a worked in Belmont Road and Bath Street from 1850 till 1878. WILLIAM COLLIE was born in Skene, Scotland in 1810 and started his professional career as a portraiture painter. He was one of the earliest photographers in Jersey working Belmont House. He mostly took portraits of those in the Jersey and French market. Most of WILLIAM COLLIEs’ work can be found in the Jersey arhive.

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The image is in black and white and has a large range of tones, from dark blacks, in the hair and on the dress, to light whites, on the dress and in the background. There are many textures with in the image, such as the cracked wall in the background and the intricate lace designs on the woman’s dress. In the image there are some negative space, which is the background, this blank space makes the foreground, the women, stand out better. The position of the figure in the image is slightly off center and creates an interesting feel to the image, as normally portraits are taken of the figure dead center. COLLIE took portraits of working class people in the French and Jersey market, so contextually this photograph links to this. The lady in the image may be in the market playing cards with her friends. Or was lady approached by COLLIE and asked to pose with the cards. No one will ever know, but it is most likely COLLIE took photographs of her while she was playing cards with her friends. The concept of this photograph is to capture working class people in a place that relates to them.

I have planned a photoshoot which links to WILLIAM COLLIE.

below are the contact sheets from my latest photoshoot ‘a portrait of someone you love’ -candid and environmental

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a portrait of someone you love- environmental and candid

who?	dad and misty the dog
where?	gronez castle
when?	just after midday
how?	using my panasonic camera with a tripod
why?	to capture my dad and the dog in a scenic spot

archive image photoshoot plan

what?	old images from my childhood, family holidays and wedding
where?	in my room on a large sheet of white paper
when?	in the afternoon, when the lighting is at its best
why?	to show how time changes things, such as people, style, moods
how?	collect images and group some that connect in some way

my archive images

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these images above are from 2002 till 2008. The images are from family holidays, my childhood and my mum and stepdads wedding. I decided to take photos of these images because I thought that they showed how I have grown up from when I was a child and gave me the most room for interpretation and freedom when editing. I grouped some images together as they as a collection could tell a narrative and held deep meaning that I could explore during the editing process. I shot the images on a plain background so that there were no distractions from the actual images and this meant that background was clean and crisp. My cameras white balance was set to a colder setting, this meant that the images had a cooler tone to make them relate to how I felt when viewing the images after a very long time.

archive images – edited

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archive images – final

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Below is a list of photographers that I am interested in looking into more:

• Arlen Parsa
• John Baldesseari
• Paul Mpagi Sepuya
• Khadija Saye
• Lorna Simpson
• Lee Friedlander
• Luke Willis Thompson

Arlen Parsa

John Baldesseari

I have chosen this photographer because, similar to the photographer above, the images rely on the viewer having understanding and they contain deeper connotations than those on face value.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

I have chosen this artist because I liked the style of their images, as they are more abstract and can be viewed in many different ways. I am interested in taking some abstract images relating to love and rebellion and protest and activism, which is why I would like to look further into the context, and conceptual ideas behind these images.

Khadija Saye

I have chosen this photographer because I am interested in the ideas behind these images. For this project I would also like to take portrait images and these images would influence my images.

Lorna Simpson

The reason I have chosen this photographer because the conceptual notions behind these photographs I find are interesting and would like to know more and hopefully be influenced by them.

Lee Friedlander

I have chosen to look more into this photographer because I like the look the images and would like to take photographs of related monuments for this project

Luke Willis Thompson

I have also chosen this photographer because of how poignant and emotive the images they take are. For this project I would to take images similar to this and use them for photo montages and experimenting.

what do i want to take photographs of?

• statue of Sir George Carteret
• royal square
• trenton square

when am i going to take the photographs?

• early morning
• mid day

how am i going to take the photographs?

• using my Panasonic camera with two different lenses, one for details, the other for wide angle shots

why am i designing this shoot this way?

• to capture how these spaces are used

Racism in Jersey, is still around, although it is not connected to America and the recent death of George Floyd and the black lives matter movement, racism still happens so it is relevant.

Jersey was connected to the slave trade by having slave owners from here and wanting products from places where slaves work, cod from Canada and wood from the Caribbean. Sir George Carteret, served in the navy and gained a colony in America, as a reward for helping King Charles II during his exile,and named it ‘New Jersey’ after Jersey. He was involved in the slave trade, by being connected to boating, however his connection is not know to many and is not taught to the younger generation. Sir George Carteret has a statue in St Peter, which had been covered in paint, due to recent arise in the black lives matter movement. A square, Trenton Square, in St Helier also is connected to the slave trade by being named after the capital of New Jersey, Trent, and a plantation owner, William Trent.

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colonialism is practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

The slave trade has evolved and has meant that native Africans were taken and sold to plantation owners for them to have to work on the plantation. Plantation owners had power over the slaves and oppressed their human rights, by taking them from where they live onto a plantation to work for nothing. Plantation owners also had to pay for the slaves, objectifying them and treating them as if they were an object.

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