Photography

Recording:

When given the task of taking photos relating to a word, I thought it would be sensible to relate this to my time project slightly. In the case of the time project I thought I would relate the photos I took to thosse relating to the word fragments. The context of this word was fragments of my life that had been very influencial in the past, as well as now. Whilst taking my photos of various things I found it slightly challenging as I had not experienced any kind of photography on a project of this scale. Unfortunately I did not have access to any expensive camera equipment therefore I had to take any and all photos with my mobile phone. An interesting thing about this however was the fact that I was able to use different camera and phone effects to add different colours and meanings to my images. Out of all the images I took I decided that 9 would be a suitable amount for my project. In my sketchbook I found that it was quite a tricky challege of cancelling down my photos, however it was an easy task because I was thinking too much of what a photographer would think of my work, rather that what I saw in my own work and the possibilities that could come out of it.

Reflecting:

Looking back over the project, I found that it was one of the most interesting projects I had taken on so far. From a young age I always wanted to see more into how a photo could change someones perspective on a situation and the different emotions it could invoke. Through this project another fun aspect was cutting the photos I had chosen and sticking them down in different arrangements to see how each orientation had differed from one another. This to me was no different to my expereimentation in normal graphics projects that I had taken part in, which made it that much easier for me to grasp the hang of photography at a fairly comfortable level. If I were to do this project again If I had more time, I would attempt to see If i could create a photo collage of just friends alone, instead of mixing firends with objects and perhaps creating a body out of each of those friends, with a mixture of males and females. Also if given the permission by my friends I would experiment with using family photos to further see how the word fragmentation could be ddescribed, as I had done so in a very illustrative way with my photos being shaped as shattered pieces of glass.

Contextualising:

When looking at contextual inspirations for this project I found that robert mapplethorpe was the most influential artist in getting accross the tone I wanted fragmentation to give. His black and white photography had explored that darker side of how peopl may not have wated to know about certain things or trid to brush them away, and this I beillieve was crucial to my understanding of negative emotions in imagery, even though only one of my photos was black and white out of my set of 9.