Concept A for June 9 Submission
Format:
I’m thinking of producing an A3 portrait ‘documents’ (part of a series… maybe only 2 at this stage). 5 Sheets of A2 folded and stitched. This ‘document’ will consist of mostly large-scale photographs (bleeding off the page) and will work as a Photographic Essay. I will have some writing to support and explain some of my research, but will focus on the visuals mostly.
I could put together a few more of these (if they are successful) for the end of the year, and have them assist something… something larger.
Paper stock I’m interested in printing on is: Mohawk Superfine, 148gsm uncoated. (imported from US)
My update:
Last weekend/Monday I moved into my new house. From Homebush West to Newtown. My commuting to the city every day has changed, ‘visual tunnel experience’ speaking! I still have the photographs from my original journey, but can now expand as my journey has changed. I’m much closer to the city now, living in a 4 bedroom terrace house (so glad to be out of the apartment) with 4 other people. A 22 year old guy who’s also a graphic designer/student, a German couple in their mid twenties, he’s a multimedia/post productions designer and she’s doing an architecture internship, and a 35 year old high school teacher who used to own his own design company… so makes for good conversation!)
The Process/Plan:
1. I will look into photographing some new material (while I’m still excited about it!)
2. Finish reading Relational Aesthetics and The Architecture of Happiness. (Loving reading RA, I do end up going back to pages I have already read to get a better understanding, make sure it's sinking in, it's a very 'loaded' text). A of H on the other hand is a much more poetic text, I'm just getting started on this book though. For my 'document' content i thought about choosing a phrase from every page (there's only 104 pages) and using that somehow in my photo essay... or communicating ideas from RA to the public somehow...
3. Start writing content for my ‘documents’ and this could work towards, or part of the essay for end of year.
4. How do the ideas I’m reading about in RA and A of H tie into what I’m wanting to create/make/produce… ?
I’m thinking of producing an A3 portrait ‘documents’ (part of a series… maybe only 2 at this stage). 5 Sheets of A2 folded and stitched. This ‘document’ will consist of mostly large-scale photographs (bleeding off the page) and will work as a Photographic Essay. I will have some writing to support and explain some of my research, but will focus on the visuals mostly.
I could put together a few more of these (if they are successful) for the end of the year, and have them assist something… something larger.
Paper stock I’m interested in printing on is: Mohawk Superfine, 148gsm uncoated. (imported from US)
My update:
Last weekend/Monday I moved into my new house. From Homebush West to Newtown. My commuting to the city every day has changed, ‘visual tunnel experience’ speaking! I still have the photographs from my original journey, but can now expand as my journey has changed. I’m much closer to the city now, living in a 4 bedroom terrace house (so glad to be out of the apartment) with 4 other people. A 22 year old guy who’s also a graphic designer/student, a German couple in their mid twenties, he’s a multimedia/post productions designer and she’s doing an architecture internship, and a 35 year old high school teacher who used to own his own design company… so makes for good conversation!)
The Process/Plan:
1. I will look into photographing some new material (while I’m still excited about it!)
2. Finish reading Relational Aesthetics and The Architecture of Happiness. (Loving reading RA, I do end up going back to pages I have already read to get a better understanding, make sure it's sinking in, it's a very 'loaded' text). A of H on the other hand is a much more poetic text, I'm just getting started on this book though. For my 'document' content i thought about choosing a phrase from every page (there's only 104 pages) and using that somehow in my photo essay... or communicating ideas from RA to the public somehow...
3. Start writing content for my ‘documents’ and this could work towards, or part of the essay for end of year.
4. How do the ideas I’m reading about in RA and A of H tie into what I’m wanting to create/make/produce… ?
18 May 2007 at 11:15
I really need you to push this along asap before I can give you useful feedback/critique. It'd be good if you could actually work on putting some of this together this weekend and then perhaps we could talk on the phone early next week?
INITIALLY I'm interested in the system(s) you employ to collect the images, AND THEN the filtering process you use to curate the images... and then of course to 'lay them out' in this document you talk about.
Talk soon...
20 May 2007 at 21:45
I will try to get some photography done on my trips this monday and tuesday... I think I'm best to set up Flickr so that it's easy for you to see all my images before i start to filter/convert to black/white etc.
I'm starting to wonder if this project has anything to do with what I'm doing at EYE. Initially I thought my work there would be more directly linked with my project. Maybe the 'something' for end of year be more aligned??
(I guess I'm thinking more interms of photography... it's not a huge passion of mine. But I guess I could use it, only to illustrate, or as a means of documentation...)
Subject wise, I'm a bit stuck... Remember how I talked about the visual tunnel experience thing, i either need to come up with some 'rules' of how i capture/document that, of just photograph what's infront or me and outdoor advertising wise what I notice... capture the 'atmosphere'... ??