Final Piece Idea

For my final piece I would really like to create a book full of my own handmade paper with printed photographs onto it. I wanted to fill this book with a regular person’s day to day life. By this I mean regular photographs of people leading their day to day lives, and then inserted inbetween these photographs, other photos of the times where families are enjoying themselves and spending time together. Whether this is a celebration or just a day out together, these are all the times which mothers and fathers work hard for and look forward too. Within my work I want to represent the idea of people having to lead their day to day lives and work for a living to then be able to spend these quality times with their families and be able to pay for these celebrations to take place. It’s also something to look forward too. For the day to day photographs I'm going to be taking, I will be either using film or taking them on my digital camera and then editing them into black and white as a lot of people may see this as the dull and negative parts of their life. Whereas the celebrations and the days with the family are going to be in colour. I thought this gave a little bit extra into my final piece, introducing the use of colour and using it to represent feelings. Along with the handmade book, I will also have another book with the original photographs in so that you can see the quality of the images a lot better than it would be on the handmade paper. As already mentioned further up my blog, my handmade paper is created out of family photographs, so the whole book will be based around Family Life and will conclude my project as a whole. I really like this idea for a final piece as it will be a mixture of staged and documentary photography, and the book for a final piece includes paper and photography which is focussed purely on Family Life. I’ve really enjoyed the creativity put towards the thought process of this final piece and I’m looking forward to seeing what it looks like.

I am not always going to be photographing people, either...I want to put some really deep thinking into this project and capture photographs which represent the story instead of just photographing family life in general. I really like it when the audience can make their own mind up about my work and I've focussed on producing photographs like this all the time I've been doing photography. I don't like it when the audience can tell straight away what the images are about, I like it when they add in a little extra thought for themselves into my photography. That's what makes it special and what makes my photography a little out of the ordinary. (which is what I aim for, anyway)