What do you want to explore?
I would like to explore the concept ‘Simple or Complex’ through looking at my family life and history. In order to do this I will be creating photoshoots in areas that I spend a lot of my childhood in (such as the walk from my mums house in St Saviour to my dads house in St Clement) and also takes portraits of some of my family members in other to boost creativity and risk throughout my project. I will be focusing on the fact that my parents are separated and how this has impacted mine and my brother’s life. In addition to take portraits and incorporating landscapes that are familiar to me, I will be including photographs of my and my brother from when we are younger, and this is in an attempt to represent how much we have changed from our childhood.
This exploration of my family in this project will demonstrate that on the outside my relationship with all of my family members seems to be very simple, but are in fact very complex and makes me question how they became to be so complicated in the first place. In my opinion, this will allow me to demonstrate a different kind of photography that I will be able to carry out.
Why does it matter to you?
This project matters a lot to me because it is the most personal concept I have ever created throughout my whole photography course. I would really like to make this project the best I’ve ever done as it is centred around a very specific time in my life when I was very young. Additionally, this subject is something that is very sensitive for me, and I would like this to be reflected in my work as its so special to me.
How do you wish to develop your project?
I would like to take inspiration from the artists Alec South, Matthew Finn and Roberts Adams. With me creating monochromatic landscape images, full face portraits and focusing mostly on my close relationship with my brother. These artists are some of my most inspiring as the pure quality of their work is just amazing. In addition to this, I would like to create a lot of black and white portraits as they will enhance all of my brothers facial features and show how much we look alike, especially through our eyes and nose.
By the end of this project, I would like to have created another photobook, this will allow me to show again that creatively I find creating layout and books very interesting in comparison to other options such as sequences. This will give me a chance to contrast my older family photographs and the new portraits I will take.
When are where do you intend to begin your study?
I wish to begin my study very soon with my first photoshoot, this will likely be of me walking from my mums house to my dads, I will be doing this because this walk will give me an opportunity to take images of a lot of green/ grass landscapes, along with roads and also beach views. I am looking forward to this photoshoot as it will create a wide variety of images and this will mean that there will be some variation within this photoshoot alone.
Photoshoot 1: Will include taking landscape images whilst I walk from my mums to my dads house, I will do this in the early afternoon to try and get the best lighting and only a school camera will be required to do this.
Photoshoot 2: I will take portraits of myself and my brother, I will most likely do this with the backgrounds at my mums house during the morning to try and get the best lighting. Only a camera will be needed for this photoshoot
