Collection 100... Photography

For this brief, the task was to take a minimum of 100 photos of objects, people, words, places and textures; the idea was that in taking the photos no prejudgements were to be made of the type of image that might be useful.

A list of photographers was provided to help with research such as; Martin Parr, John Rankin, David Bailey and more.

The mandatory requirements for this was to have 100 (7.5cmx6cm) hard copies of photos with no white borders, but all cut to size. Within the photographs needed to be evidence of experimentation with composition and the interpretation of the images.

As part of my photography project in my Foundation Diploma year, I took a series of photographs around Doncaster, I only went on to develop 2 of these images, so felt this may be a good time to dig out the negatives and get them all reprinted. These photos were in black and white and fitted 4 of the 5 categories.

I also used a few photos from my holiday in July 2009 to Tenerife, of the rocky landscape, one photograph features part of Mount Teide, a volcano. I chose to use these images as the colours are warm and which makes a contrast with the photos taken for the project.

These photos featured mainly objects, people and words, and were also mainly in colour, as these were in colour I have tried to make the photographs colourful to contrast with the schemes used in the other photographs, for example, a sunset, a purple scarf, a lava lamp etc.

Here are a selection of my photos:

Looking at the photographs I had to pick a theme that linked them altogether, this proved to be quite tricky as some of my images were a little random, I then decided that changing seasons may be an appropriate topic.

Once the photos were collated, the next part of the brief was given out, titled ‘What If’ and the class was divided into groups. In my group, there was Hazel, Will, Sai and Nick, and their themes were:

- Documenting changes – differences and similarities

- Contrasting colours

- Dark and light and things that shine in the night

- Night time close-ups.

With the themes the others had, I felt like my subject fitted in quite well, as with seasons changing there are contrasts in colours, differences and similarities across the seasons, the difference in dark and light is also affected by this.