Photography

We have also been working with photography. Our brief was to also work along the same theme of Headlines and Stories. I was to take 8 photos a week for 3 weeks, total of 24 photos altogether, and then select our top 8. I found selecting the final ones difficult!!!

 

I started thinking of theft and crime, and staged a scene of me trying to break into a car (my own car may I add!!!). And I also was told I was trying to break in the wrong way!!! Ah well, at least I know I'll never make a career out of stealing cars!! I also staged climbing into my house. I made them black & white as they looked so much better than in colour. What do you think?

 

 

 

 

I then wanted to go further with the crime theme, and gave a lot of thought of what types of things are stolen from us. One that stuck out for me is dignity. This can be taken away by the way we are treated. Unfortunately, people get abused and treated badly within institutions in society. There are so many types of institutional abuse, and we hear more and more frightening stories every day. I took some photos of some institutions as a representation of this theme. I'm not saying that any abuse actually occurred in any of these buildings specifically. They are only used here as a symbol for my theme.

 

 

 

 

 

These are only some of the photos I took. This final image really made an impact on me. This is a confessional box in a deconsecrated church. This building is just locked up and not in use anymore. Thankfully I was able to get to photograph it. When looking at the confessional box I felt uneasy. The way the curtain is sitting made me feel like something wrong happened here. It's like there is a gap in the curtain for you to peek in, and it also feels like you shouldn't look. I will work with this image again.

 

 

Just going back to the theme of robbing the eye out of your head, I took these just for fun! I wanted to use real eyeballs and had it organised with my local butcher that I could get some sheep's eyes, but time was against me! Instead I was lucky enough that it was around Halloween and got chocolate eyes. Not quite the same effect but I like the photos anyway. Real eyeballs for another day....