The Individual & The Social

With the Individual and the social project, I decided to express myself with photography as my main medium of art practice. I looked at dreams and how they connect with personal memories of places, self and others. I wanted to understand the why we had dreams, and then portray them across as a memory through using photography. I had a photography workshop and this really inspired me to use a camera as i had never really properly used a SLR camera before. I learnt about aperture , shutter speed definition and many other camera settings in the workshop, which I thoroughly enjoyed being part of. I was able to hire out a camera and went about Leeds, to find alphabetical letters that could be found within architecture and buildings, so that I could create words from them.

"F"

"U"

"S"

"E"

In the workshop I also did some shutter speed work, where we worked in groups using the other various photography equipment such as tripods and big lights. I managed to take some good photographs that in that workshop and use them in my project. I wanted to create my dreams through the use of photography, through the use of capturing a single moment on film and then being able to remember it. I managed to create a photograph where all our faces were overlapped creating a dream like image . I feel this image was successful as it was the epitome of my dreams and I wanted the viewer to think when they saw this image combined with the letters in the background creating words, so they subconsciously are being told what to think "Fusion".  

I was also expected in this module to create a presentation on a reading by John Berger. I found I enjoyed being able to present my analysis of his reading, and enjoyed learning about him in the critical studies that we had. I felt the presentation went well, although at first I had nerves. I enjoyed doing it and felt more confident with my presentation skills. 

My aims for the next project would be to plan my time more because if I had had enough time at the end I would of create more words with the photographs.