Task

EVALUATION: Upon completion of photobook/ film and presentation of prints make sure you evaluate and reflect on your learning and final outcomes. Comment on the following:

• Did you realise your intentions?
• What references did you make to artists references? 
  comment on technical, visual, contextual, conceptual?
• How successful was your final outcomes (book, film, prints etc)?

Evaluation

Throughout this project I have stuck with my main theme of my childhood memories. However, I have adapted what I wanted to do with my theme. To begin with, I didn’t want to include photographs of people but that changed after I looked through my families archives. I ultimately used a collage of old photographs in order to showcase how we each have our own memories, as well as creating a link to my essay on how photography and memories go hand in hand. To showcase the time of these memories, I made the collage on the back of the book focused on images of my grandparents and their lives while the collage on the front cover focuses on my parents lives. Moving on to the inside of the book, I changed my idea of slowly adding in more images since it ended up looking rather out of place, however I compromised on this idea by keeping blank areas throughout the book to symbolise how we only seem to remember key things or events from our past. Lastly, I changed how my images were edited. I had originally planned to have a mix of photos in black and white as well as colour, yet the contrast wasn’t effective and causing the images to lack consistency. Therefore, I ended up linking my images through the saturation which also connects to the idea of childhood memories as we tended to see the world in a brighter perspective.

Regarding my artists reference, Sternfeld, I feel as though I could of linked more to him yet I still feel as though the connection between each of our works are visible. Firstly, the theme of memory helps to present the similarities between the two even if we are focusing on different aspects of it. I also made some landscape images in his style, editing some to have lower exposure the same way he does. In order to improve my relation to his work I could add writing to my work about the images shown, it would also help to connect better to him if I focused more on landscapes overall.

Overall, I would count my project as a success. While there are ways to improve my work such as having more of a variety of images, like more archival photos, I would say that the presentation and final images chosen link and present exactly what I wanted my project to be about.