I want to explore the idea of identity in the sense of location and upbringing. I want to look at this as I think it is a big part of someone’s identity and shows where they have come from and family heritage, which shapes people to be who they are.
I’m going to develop my ideas from work by Shipla Grupta who looks at family heritage through names and has a project based on this where she presents her images split in half and reassembled to form a misaligned set of images.
Umberto Verdoliva is another artist I would like to start this project with, I specifically like his project where he layers images on top of each other to create a new meaning to both images, adding a narrative. I really like this idea of taking something apart and putting back together and creating a new narrative.
I will do this in my own project by using old family archive images and taking new images. At the end of the project I will produce a photobook with my best outcomes.
Anya, a very good statement of intent that provide a good foundation for your personal study. You need to publish post on essay question, plan and write a draft essay introduction. Reflect on what we discussed last week I’m in school all week and we can do another 1-2-1 to help with the above and find key texts from books on family archives and photography & memory.
Have a look at some these questions listed below from the book Photography Decoded authored by curator and writer Susan Bright and curator, writer and photo-historian Hedy van Erp.
What do I remember?
https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/photo20al/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2019/11/What-do-I-remember.pdf
How can you tell a story?
https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/photo20al/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2019/11/How-can-you-tell-a-story.pdf
Stephen-Bulger_Phototherapy_family-albums
https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/photo21al/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2021/01/Stephen-Bulger_Phototherapy_family-albums.pdf
Photography and Memory
Kuhn, A. Remembrance: The Child I Never Was in Wells, L. (ed) (2003) The Photography Reader. London: Routledge
https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/photo21al/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2021/01/Annette-Kuhn_Remembrance_the-child-I-never-was.pdf
Here are a few articles and photobooks on Photography and its relationship with memory. You should read them and references them in your essay.
Colberg, J (May 28, 2012) Photography and Memory
blogger on Conscientious
http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/extended/archives/photography_and_memory/
I would also like to see any images that you have made so far in relation to your project