This shoot pairs with my second shoot focusing on the area closer to my home, but I take a more abstract and meaningful approach. I displays how the area can seem completely different depending on when you visit, some days it can be busy with children out having fun, where other days it can seem like a ghost town. These images will be displayed in pairs to show comparisons between the two.

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Plan and Process

For this shoot, my plan was to use a tripod to keep the frame steady and consistent throughout different shots. I took an image of empty space with no subjects in the frame, I then photographed one subject in multiple different places within the frame, without moving the camera, My plan is to edit these images in photoshop to make the subject appear multiple times in one frame. This is to symbolise how busy and also empty areas of the local community can be.

Editing

In photoshop, I cut out parts of different images and aligned them so the subject appears multiple times in one frame.

Final Image pairs

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Favorite Image

This is my favorite image because it is the most seamlessly edited. This photo also caught my attention because of the colourful backgroung and texture of the wall ehich brings more life to the image.

This shoot focuses on the area closer to my parish, showing the variation of how people live, their beliefs and the good/bad aspects of this area.

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Favorite Image

This is my favourite image because it symbolises the activities that bring communities together, yet also displays the wealth and lifestyle of people in this area. The broken and worn basketball hoop has natural earthy colours from the moss, which goes with the earthy brown colors of the wall it is leaning against. To further enhance this earthy feel I colour corrected the image while editing it to have a yellow/brown hue. I think that this gives the image almost a relatable feel because nothing is too bright and crisp, making the hoop feel used, showing that it has helped bring the community together.

For this first shoot i focissed on street/candid photography, local businesses along with the consistent architecture of the community buildings in my parish.

When editing these images, especially for the architecture photographs, I created a big contrasty between the highlights and the shadows to create a more dramatic image.

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Favourite image

This is my favorite image because it shows a successful, busy local business within the community. The warm colours from the natural lighting make the image more inviting to look at. I also like the candidness of the image with the man and his bike unaware of the camera, along with the people in the shop.

For these next three photo shoots, i have imagines myself as a photographer for my street, neighbourhood, town or city. And that I have been commissioned to create a sequence of photographs celebrating the spirit of this place and its people. I will be limited to 10 pictures in total. Make a larger body of images, then edit these down to just 10. Arrange in a sequence or collage that makes sense as a final set of images.

Shoot plans

My plans for these three shoots are to approach three different areas and aspects of the community around me. The first shoot will focus on street/candid photography along with the consistent architecture of the community buildings in my parish.

My next shoot will focus in on the area closer to my parish, showing the variation of how people live, their beliefs and the good/bad aspects of this area.

My final shoot will pair with my second shoot focusing on the area closer to my home, but I will take a more abstract and meaningful approach. I will display how the area can seem completely different depending on when you visit, some days it can be busy with children out having fun and other members of the community everywhere, where other days it can seem like a ghost town. These images will be displayed in pairs to show comparrisons.

The title ‘In progress’ suggests that the work exhibited is aiming to shed light on issues that are still a problem in society today and are only being solved gradually. I believe the title of this exhibition has derived from the phrase ‘a work in progress’, as it implies that although people are making an effort to reduce these issues, they are also being put on the side-lines as other problems are being prioritised over them. For me the word ‘progress’ connotes ideas of steady change and revolution in society. In the last 5 years I think that photography has become more honest in the way we capture moments, I believe we have seen a more candid side to the world rather than a staged outer appearance, especially due to the increasing amounts of photo-journalism we have access to due to technology such as phone cameras. In addition, I also think that this honesty has come from a place of activism and a need for improvement to ourselves and the world we live in, whether it be motivated by issues such as racial or environmental injustice. My expectations for this exhibition were to see visual representations of modern issues, that are given the attention they deserve by the photographers presented. My expectations for any photography exhibition are to see images that cause me to question myself or society around me, whether it be the way I live and my impact on others, or the impact others have on the world. The themes and format of photography I would normally expect to encounter are predominantly staged portraits as most people find that these are the best story tellers and most efficient way of connecting with an audience. This exhibition supports my expectations through the work of photographer Widline Cadet, due to her staged portraits depicting women supporting each other, but is also contradicted by photographers such as Laia Abril, who has taken still life photographs.

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