Plan for Next Shoot and Photobook

Next I would like to photograph inside some of the shops I have already shot from the outside. I think this would be an interesting accompaniment for my outside shots. I will need to find an interesting way to display this if I were to include this in my end of year photo book.

Possible layouts?

I would like to display my 'outside shots' in a grid as I believe they are much stronger in larger numbers.



















A Photographer who has used grids in their work is Eadweard Muybridge. In his series of photographs 'Animal Locomotion'. Time lapse-style images of human and animal motion are organised in grid format. These correct presentation of images like these are necessary for their success.

I will need to experiment with the layout and organisation of my photographs when constructing my photo book.

Martin Parr

A photographer which has interested me visually is Martin Parr. I have always had an interest in Parr's work and in his somewhat satire photographs of life. 

His series Mar Del Plata reminds me in a way of my work this term. I really like his humorous take on life showing a strange sort of beauty in what we would say be usual standards, 'ugly' photographs.     

I'd like to emulate this feeling in my work

                                            

Small Businesses

I have now included family/small independent businesses in my project. This has increased the amount of images in this set and has allowed me to explore these shop fronts further. What I find the most interesting about these images is the similarity and repetition. I love how almost every building is the same shape and size and framed in a similar way but the signage is so vastly different. There is a feeling of hard work and determination about these images; these businesses will most likely be family run or independent so they will not have financial, managerial or marketing backing unlike huge companies today. I want to be able to capture this in my images.