After collecting all the work I've created thus far and making a dummy book, my tutor advised to re-photograph the places the archive images were photographed originally, to see if anything has changed.
I meticulously reproduced the photographs as accurate as possible, by copying the angle and imagining what position the pictures were taken.
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Image 2
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| Image 5 |
When grouped with their respective archive image- you can clearly see the passage of time, but what's interesting is the lack of people in the shots, especially in Image 2, 3 and 5. It creates a sense of melancholy by depicting a cold outlook at present life through the lack of human presence, compared to the archive images that lovingly depict moments in time easily forgotten, symbolising the fragility of memory.
Though the majority of the images from this shoot show the same location, this may be interesting to compare and contrast all the archive photographs with their current images, similar to a typology when grouped together, by presenting the similarities and differences.
Carrying on from this shoot I will try to find more archive images that contain items we seldom use anymore, as well as show different locations, to diversify the project.
