Assignment One: Two sides of the story – Reworked Submission
Coming back to this assignment I found that some of the things my Tutor said to me during our feedback meeting had stuck in my mind both in relation to the objects used and the feel of the images which I displayed in black and white. We also discussed putting some examples of entries from…
Assignment One: Reflection and Feedback
Note: (Having just finished part one and then having given part two (Narrative) a quick look I wonder if this assignment fits better with this section!) My first thoughts after completing this assignment were that I don’t yet have the skills or the knowledge to do the subject justice. But, I do believe I have…
Assignment One: Research – Contemporary Still Life Photographers
Still life photographers I had decided that I didn’t want the images to be in the style of the “Old Masters”. I find them quite dark, depressing and the religious connotations don’t fit with the meanings, and feelings I was attempting to convey. I looked at the work of several photographers, creating pin boards of…
Assignment One: Planning and Creating the series (Two sides of the story)
I decided to produce two sets of five images. One set to represent my mum’s year; going from her being unaware of her future diagnosis, the moment immediately after diagnosis, the period where she was coming to terms with it, living with it and then the time just before her death. The other set to…
Assignment One: Research – Symbolism in Still Life Photography
Symbolism in Still life photography I didn’t know very much about this subject but I suspected it would fit well with my idea. I needed a way of representing the last 12 months of my mothers life, using her diary as the guide to what those days were like and how they changed over the…
Assignment One: Two sides of the story – Submission
Brief Create at least two sets of photographs telling different versions of the same story. The aim of the assignment is to help you explore the convincing nature of documentary, even though what the viewer thinks they see may not in fact be true. Try to make both sets equally convincing so that it’s impossible…
Assignment One: Inspiration behind the work – The Diary 1998
This work was inspired by by late mothers diary, in which she recorded her everyday life for 12 months in 1998. When she started writing in it on the 1st January she didn’t know that on the 13th of March she would be diagnosed with a terminal condition; make her last entry on…
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