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Description was what photography did - first and foremost. You press the button and the camera describes what it’s pointing at. That’s all it really does. It’s what you point it at, and how consistent you are, and how interesting you find subject matter that gives your work a dimension, and a shape, and a reason for being. But in the beginning, all the camera does is describe what’s in front of you. You can’t make it more than it is; it just is what it is.
So for our first second year project we’ve been set with the brief Communities. The class was then split into groups of seven when we had to decide on a topic. Its fair to say it wasn’t the easiest of tasks as each of us have a completely different preference/approach to photography. The solution to this was coming up with something that was open to interpretation yet would easily be linked to each other. The results to this was The Night.
It was then time to think of a project. After snooping around on the internet I came across a group called Gwent Paranormal. I know what you’re thinking, and no I’m not going to be documenting some spooky house to see if i can capture any ghosts on camera (even though how cool would that be?) The idea is to be able to spend time with the group, get to know them and really see what its all about. The same way you’d document any other group of individuals, mine just happen to like finding the dead.
Here’s the home page for they’re website (http://gwentparanormalgroup.webs.com/)
From what I’ve seen so far they seem like a tight-nit group that are really dedicated to what they do and its something that they’re passionate about. The best way to describe it would be the live of a ghost hunter (a married ghost hunting couple to be precise)
I’m really hopefully for this project and am looking forward to getting stuck in.
Another image from my current project Across The Abyss.
The same as a person in the desert imagines a pool of water, someone who is desperate for love imagines their prince or princess. The chances of either being real are slim to none, but when you want something bad enough you start to hallucinate. Our desire feeds effortlessly from the stories we are told, the songs we hear on the radio and the literature we have always read. From childhood, we are convinced into believing that without love our lives are incomplete, before we are even aware, we are told stories of the poor damsel in distress that can only be saved by her heroic Prince. This project focuses on the kinds of places that are romanticised by young adults.
The majority questioned for this body of work have not experienced love, yet they already have a clear idea of what they expect for their future. Most places described are those that appear in many classic romantic fictions, the park benches, the sunsets, and the empty beaches during those warm spring evenings. The project has been created using a Polaroid camera, as it plays on the idea of going to these intimate places and being able to take something away. Something to physically touch and hold in our hands, an action that we are not able to do with love.
‘Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us exisiting, we cannot properly speak until there is someone there who can understand what we are saying, in essence we are not wholly alive until we are loved’ – Alain De Botton
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