Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Second dummy book

For my second dummy book, I collected all the work I've done thus far, so as to make connections between them all. This included digital, film (from my disposable camera shoots) and archive imagery.

What I found between all the photographs was that they are seemingly mundane imagery, especially that of the archive. However, they also depict something that used to be there but has now gone, conveying a sense of displacement (which reflects how I feel in my life). As a result, I tried to form a narrative that reflected a sense of displacement both in my current life, and in the archive images, to show that everything isn't as fond as I remember.

I did four different versions of the sequence, with the middle section changing in each iteration; the final sequence I chose was less constricted to grouping all the images together that came from the same location, and was more fluid (which is what Rich mentioned for my work to be in my CRS meeting, to not confine my work so early on).




The chosen sequence
It was really good to see all the work I've done so far and create a new narrative, since it has given my project a new focus after I felt I had lost the core theme of what the work was about. Because of this, I will continue to develop and refine this new theme.