Final Images Tamara

Hand Writing

I am using handwritten text for my book and will use it as an overlay on the images. Here is some text I have scanned.

Update - Self Portraits for Artist Book

Portrait Style

The Style of Portrait I will be creating is working with natural light and focusing on expression. I will be shooting each portrait in a very similar style.

Examples. Draft Shoot:

Dear Photograph Cont.

http://dearphotograph.com/

My first example

This is a photograph of myself and my Dad Barry when I was 2. We are standing in front of the tree that we planted when I was born. Mum and Dad have a tree from when they moved into the house and we planted one 2 years later when my brother was born. They are all still there today.

Dear Photograph

In any family the past is important. Sometimes best left untouched other times a place of wonder and childhood. I saw this post a few weeks ago by Julian and loved tthe idea behind it.


http://dearphotograph.com/

Dear Photograph is simply about taking a picture of a picture from the past in the present I love this concept and I think I will have a fantastic time exploring and beinig creative with it. Below are a few examples plus one of my own.

Hands

To me I believe a really important part of a person is their hands. It's where crafts, skills and trades are created and we use them to do just about everything. I love the way that they can tell so much about a person, their life, jobs.

For each person I wish to photograph their hands either doing something they love or just still in beautiful light.

Text

I've had a few different concepts for what text to include.

1. The first one is to include poems and quotes that are important to the individual.


Your only limitation is your imagination.
-Walt Disney

Know you're just somebody that I used to know. - Gotye


The Dash
I read of a man who stood to speak
At the funeral of a friend
He referred to the dates on her tombstone
From the beginning to the end

He noted that first came the date of her birth
And spoke the following date with tears,
But he said what mattered most of all
Was the dash between those years

For that dash represents all the time
That she spent alive on earth.
And now only those who loved her
Know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not how much we own;
The cars, the house, the cash,
What matters is how we live and love
And how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hard.
Are there things you’d like to change?
For you never know how much time is left,
That can still be rearranged.

If we could just slow down enough
To consider what’s true and real
And always try to understand
The way other people feel.

And be less quick to anger,
And show appreciation more
And love the people in our lives
Like we’ve never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect,
And more often wear a smile
Remembering that this special dash
Might only last a little while.

So, when your eulogy is being read
With your life’s actions to rehash
Would you be proud of the things they say
About how you spent your dash?



2. Is to use single powerful words of different sizes shapes, colours and text to explore the relationships and personalities.

Growth.
Change.

3. The last idea is to use stories from each person. This is actually something I have wanted to do for a number of years because my Grandpa tells the most fantastic stories. The stories don't have to be of important life changing events rather memorable moments or what ever pops into their head!

4. A mix of all three dependant on what is appropriate and best represents each person.

Family Tree

Developing on my last post I have decided to chop and change a little bit. I am not going to focus so strongly on netball rather I will incorporate that subtly into the area in my artist book that represents myself. I will section the both off into groups by uses of blank pages of different colours and textures. I will have a focus on 6 different people. My immediate family - Mum, Dad and my brother Daniel. My Grandpa and my best friend Tom, I intend to represent these people litterally and metaphorically through use of portraits, objects and spaces. My lay out will be pictures of different sizes single pages images, series of smaller images. I will have a portrait for each person shot in similar styles. I will also photograph the space in which I invisage each person which to me represents them most. I am looking at the concept of a family tree but not so littaraly I will be rather focusing on the relationships between each person I guess it will be more like a family web.

Brainstorming

You are to develop a folio around/about your own story. We all have stories to tell, and you can decide on absolutely anything - it can be personal, it can be a family story, it can be something more abstract or not even based around the ideas of plot and narrative. At the end you are to have a series of photographs (however many you think are necessary to tell your story) and possibly, but not necessarily, some accompanying text.

The two most important components or my life are my family and friends and netball. Naturally these are the two areas that come to mind when creating a folio about my story. The first hurdle I have come across is how to combine them both together.

I firstly wish to explore the most important people in my life through a series of portraits. These portraits I wish to develop from environment portraits to close ups and then details such as objects, places, hands, clothes, basically things that are important to them and to me. I saw these beautiful photographs in a magazine called yen. I am not big on reading magazines but I do love yen. It is a fashion magazine but with an emphasis on photography in a similar style to what I love to create. AND.. they seem to be one of the magazines that most credits photographers.. Something that is often over looked.

Below are some photographs that I have taken of my family and friends who are very important to me :)

The second part is about my dreams and aspirations in netball. My mum has been involved in the sport her whole life and has achieved the highest level an umpire can reach in netball as an AA badged umpire. She has umpired at an Australian netball. To me netball is such a personal thing that has brought me both joy and heartache over the years but something that I have persevered at. I find photographing sport quite unimaginative in a way that you don't really have the opportunity to set anything up or direct anything. Often sporting locations are drab and boring and unappealing. I have done a fair bit of sports photography and my aim is to incorporate netball in a way that is the OPPOSITE to sports or action photography.

I wish to explore the more personal details of athletes. The pain they push themselves through, the hours the put into the sport, the training they go through to often just sit on the bench for the entire match the hours of planning coaches go through, the injury's the accomplishments, the victories and the loses.

I guess the hardest part for me is how to photograph this in a way that isn't a typical sports photograph.