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.