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.