I have spent some time looking through the images that I have collected towards Assignment Three and I think I am comfortable with them. Remembering my last conversation with my tutor, I have had a few different ideas on how to progress on the images and the final project as a whole.
On agreeing this subject with my tutor at our last conversation, he advised me to keep documenting my own family as well as the public for the time being until I decide where I want to go with the project, and I have done so for the images for Assignment three. While doing so I actually said to my husband "I could do this project solely on you, for the amount of time you spend on your phone!" and then I thought that that might not be such a bad idea. Concentrating on my own family, even possibly including myself - as I don't want to exclude myself when I am also using devices, would possibly emphasize the fact that family interaction is being neglected and technology is taking over the household.
I also read forward in the course notes and was reading about how I will need to think about how to exhibit the project. In light of my recent appreciation for Sophie Calle's work, I was thinking about Suite Venitienne and how Calle used a diary style of documentary text to accompany the images and thought I could possibly do a similar thing. In my Assignment Three images, I had remembered another thing that my tutor had expressed; that I could possibly try to show how much time we spend on devices/computers. I spent some time wondering how I could do that. I even tried taking photos every time my husband was on his phone on a few mornings, to make a sequence but he is on there too much to be able to document every single time throughout the day. And then how could I portray to the viewer that they were all on the same day. Maybe diary entry text to accompany the images would depict the matter of time.
It's not that I want to deliberately move away from photographing the public, but I have found it quite monotonous in the type of photos being produced. But I wont give it up completely until the project is completed. I, again, thought back to the last discussion with my tutor and about the quality of the images, as they are being taken on my phone. I still enjoy the idea of the hypocrisy, or maybe the irony, of it. Taking photos of people while I am walking around without them thinking I am photographing them is a lot more difficult than sitting at a well lit location and taking photos while pretending to use my phone (as in some of the test shots for this idea). I found that the quality suffered when I needed to crop images. But that is one disadvantages of using the phone to take the photos. So this thought came up when I thought of how I would exhibit the images and thinking back to the book idea, the images would be presented as multiple images per page, in a time sequence for each day. Hence, they wouldn't need to be too big.
My other queries of photographing the public are the permission issue. My tutor expressed the fact that permission should be gotten from the business if photographing inside a public building although he did mention it shouldn't really be an issue for the purpose of this project. But then, with it being the run up to christmas, I questioned how much I would actually be going out anywhere in the next few months. Probably more than I think is the answer. I can only continue with it as much as possible and then look at it coming into Assignment Four.
The only thing I can do for the time being is include this idea in the reflective commentary for Assignment Three and get my tutors feedback on the ideas. It is my first assignment submission that will be based on this photographic project and not gig photography so I am eager to get some feedback and advice from my tutor.
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