Friday, 9 February 2018

Group peer review and feedback on own work

Later on in the day we presented new work on the wall, and were put into groups, to access and give feedback to our respective group's images. We were given questions which allowed us to give meaningful feedback to help everyone, and wrote it down on post-it notes instead of relaying it; as a result, the activity was quicker than the last time we gave group feedback, and allowed us to think more about the realm of photography in order to help people.

Own work and post-it notes feedback
Despite this, the feedback I was given wasn't very helpful, as it either didn't relate to my project, or it told me things I already know; for instance, I know the initial two images didn't really relate to the rest of the sequence, but they were there as placeholders, to present the idea of having conceptual photography to help convey the sense of purposeless that I currently feel, whilst researching ways of presenting this.

Also- the mention of Richard Billingham was interesting, but it didn't seem relevant to my work (in particular Ray is'n Witz), as his images display a gritty and surreal environment not many people may have seen before, compared to my project which is an inward study of how I currently feel compared to my younger self. Nonetheless, there is a similarity between his work and the archive imagery in my project, due to the snapshot aesthetic that depicts seemingly normal or not normally photographed family situations.

Ray is'n Witz
1996

And the size difference between my images was due to some images coming from different shoots; however it may be something that may be deliberate once I have focused on the final sequence.

Overall, I'll carry on developing the work by doing what I said in my meeting with Alex: gather all the work I have so far and see what new connections I can make.

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