MOODBOARD

STATEMENT OF INTENT

Our personal study project is based around the theme of nostalgia. Nostalgia is defined as ‘a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.’ My interpretation of the theme nostalgia in my personal study, is going to be based on exploring my Polish heritage, and how my family in Poland applies to my own sense of nostalgia. Furthermore I will contrast this to my life with my family here, in Jersey. I will be using Realism, within Typology and artist’s such as Hilla and Bernd Becher in order to present my life through photography. In the book August Sander Face of Our Time by Alfred Doblin Sander says ‘Each of us knows a number of people, and we recognize them when we meet by specific entirely personal characteristics that they have. All the people we encounter are only individuals, and each person has a name as well as specific, unrepeatable, and characteristic token of identification’ this supports my personal study by showing my identity and nostalgia through my family.

The main purpose of my project is to take photograph’s of my family neighbourhood, this is to highlight the nostalgic feeling I have towards my family. This will include taking images of their houses and portrait’s of my family members. I will be taking documentary style images, some of my photos will be taken with flash, as I will be attending a family gathering in Poland which gives me an opportunity to take pictures. I will take pictures of the setting and surroundings where the dinner will take place, perhaps I will be able to find some objects that are significant to my family as well as images of my family during the dinner. Here I will also try to and take headshot portraits of my family members, inside and perhaps outside their house depending on the natural lighting, as I will not be using artificial lighting.

Realism within Typology is what I am referencing my project to. The term ‘realism’ can mean to depict things as they are, without idealising or making abstract. This will be presented by my documentary photography that I will take. As well as taking images of my family neighbourhood, I will aspire to also take images of the town I live in, Konstantynow Lodzki. Here I will try to take images of small landmarks that can be used as filler images in the book.

I will develop my project into a book form. This is so it can highlight each documentary image and tell a story through the layout of a book. I am yet to decide whether the images will be in colour or black and white, once the images are taken I will decide. However I’m more interested in colour, I will edit my images in Adobe Lightroom Classic. Within the book I will alternate between portraits and images of people and landmarks and place either in Poland or Jersey. In Jersey I will take images in places that are significant to me. I however won’t be adding any text within the book as my intention is for the images to speak for themselves.