Photography Project Evaluation. Theme of "Journey" with inspiration from published photographers.

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An evaluation of Unit 3 - Journey

After being presented the theme ‘Journey’ in my A2 photography, my first thought was to research into photographers relating to this topic. However as the theme ‘journey’ is a fairly broad subject area, I was unsure where to start and which area of it to explore and specialise in.

        I decided to start by looking into the more obvious aspect of it, the physical journey. For example; the act of travelling from one place to another. However I dismissed the idea of focussing my entire project on the physical side of journey for I could see many limitations to the depth in which I would be able to explore it. None the less this seemed the sensible place to start and I knew my own response idea’s to the title ‘Journey’ would soon evolve.

        To start off, I chose to look at work published by Sophie Calle. I chose Sophie Calle for I found her work controversial and therefore something I found quite interesting, a lot of her work consisted of following stranger’s physical journeys from place to place. Unaware she was photographing them, she was able to observe peoples natural movements walking around. I wanted to try making a response to her work; though due to ethical issues I was wary of following people round with my camera taking photos of their every movement. To overcome this I tried various shoots of following a few people I knew, individually around town. However I disregarded these photos as I found the majority of their movements fairly poised and unnatural, this I felt was due to the fact that they knew I was following them. To then get around this problem I came up with the idea of using a time-lapse camera.

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 Whilst at a Festival, I decided to set up a camera to take a photo every 30-seconds. I left the camera unattended for quite a long period of time so that people became accustomed to it. This way they were able to act naturally around the camera. I thought this was successful as through a different means of equipment, (I used a time-lapse project-cam instead of my Nikon D3000) I was able to photograph the same people from before, acting in as much less self-conscious manor.  I believe that the idea of using a different type of camera worked well ...

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