First Shoot explained.....

This was my first shoot for my 'BIG  project', I decided to photograph the clubhouse/bar of Three Rivers caravan park to show the age of the place for example the carpets and the chairs have not changed since the opening of the clubhouse in 1982. I like these photographs because of the tones I decided to shoot it like this because it portrays the depressing feel that the bar holds. The residents that live on site are retired and have hardly any family that live close by, they enjoy the small community that the site holds. My next plan is to shoot the caravans themselves.  

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First Shoot

Just a thought....

Sat here researching I have decided what my message of 'The residents' will be....(every documentary photograph needs a story)  because these people live there and have done for a considerable number of years they often get called 'gypsies' which is by no means fair because the name 'gypsies' comes with bad connotations from the media, I am going to try and so that these people are just innocent people who happen to live in a caravan/static home.

I am going to do this by researching Donovan Wylie who photographed travellers and produced my favourite book losing ground, and I am going to compare to the lives these people live.

Iain McKell also did a traveller series called 'The New Gypsies' I  am going to also research this.

Tutorial 10/10/12

Today we had our tutorial with Shaun McAllister and because my idea for my pathway project is quite extensive I have already started putting together my research and expanding my ideas. I currently work in a caravan park/country club. It opened in 1982 and someo of the residents that first moved in that year still live there to this day, It was opened by a man called Harold Cowburn who unfortunalty passed away at the beginning of this year (2012) therefore all these residents believe the place to be going downhill. The residents constantly complain to me about the lack of care by the new owner and her lack of know how about running a successful happy holiday camp.

My main influence for this is my favourite photographer of all time called Daniel Meadows he is a Welsh photographer and his all his work to me is fantastic he gets accross a message to his audience, but his work that has influenced me on this occassion is called 'Butlins-by the sea 72' this is where in the summer of 1972 he went and spent the best part of 6 weeks photographing and getting to know the sort of people that went to these sorts of holiday camps. I first saw this work when me and a friend went to the exhibition at bradford media musuem last year.


http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c7d767d8-d469-11e0-a42b-00144feab49a.html#axzz28tpDuOPG

Brief research

I have been researching into previous charity photography campaigns and I have found one for the Children's Hospital in Sheffield, where three photographers came together to hold an exhibition at the hospitals 'Long gallery' this campaign was called 'You're not alone' and was aimed to make children and parents feel safer by showing other people go threw the same things on a day to day basis. 

http://lahf.org.uk/“you’re-not-alone”-children’s-hospital-sheffield-–-until-june

CNW - Idea

After looking at the campaign before the start of the Paralympics I have come up with an idea for this brief, my aim to show a strength in everyone like in the Paralympic photograph because they are portraying there physical and mental strength and self motivation rather than focussing on their disability being their downfall they have used this as a strength.

Child Action North West - Brief

Today we got our first brief and I am very excited to begin it, we have to represent families and friendships in the North West in an inspiring and uplifting way. When people think of Blackburn they are very critical of the 'scumbags' that live here but as a matter of fact people who live in this area and work very hard to keep there families together while holding down a full time job or even with a disability meaning they have to work a lot harder, they deserve more credit.

I am currently researching the background of the organisation so I can get an understanding of the sort of help they provide and to whom.

 http://www.canw.org.uk/site/

Fourth Roundabout

Yesterday we had the best news of the course so far, that we were stopping roundabouts and it was our final day, we did screen printing we had a photograph in last week for, despite Kim thinking we didn't enjoy I thought it was good because it is a different way for us to display our photographs in a unique way, it was just a shame my photograph had too many grey tones for it to work in this particular printing.

Third roundabout

On our the third week of roundabouts we did, 3D and illustration.

During 3D we pick a photograph of our choice and reproduce a a 3D sculpture from that photograph,I chose a long exposure self portrait of my mum, all the photograph was blurred.

I welded the frame of the piece and used thin wire to create the image.

In illustration we again had to chose a photograph  to trace, we then using different techniques produced the same image differently, for example using ink paper and then working back into the image with different materials.

we then used a process called 'image maker' which was a process using PVA glue to make a image transfer, you glued one side of your image and then fixed it onto a piece of material (cloth) waited 4-8 hours until dry and then removed the paper to reveal the image.

Second Roundabout

On our second weeks of of roundabout I was ill but I have caught up by asking other classmates what the pathways were; media and fine, also what we did in those classes.

Liverpool trip 19th September 2012

On 19th of September we went to Liverpool where we visited the Open eye gallery and the Tate gallery, even though the open eye gallery was minimalistic the collections in there were very inspirational and I found it very helpful in moving my ideas forward, I also found this in the Tate.

One thing that did annoy me was the lack of understanding from some of the younger photography students, they found the work grotesque and were screaming and laughing, but hey ho not my education.

In the Tate there was a particular exhibition called 'The hotel, Room 28' by Sophie Calle that i find very interesting and the most influential thing I have seen since Donovan Wylie's 'losing ground'. Calle's work is a series of images of the same hotel room over a three week period and she documents the findings of the residents threw photographs. I like the photographic style of these images, the tones and the composition is very moving.

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/calle-the-hotel-room-28-p78301