Space // Site // Place An idea whereby photography is used to enquire into a site; the site becomes a proposition. In this way we can use photography to ask questions. By engaging with a site we become open to being affected by it. We tend to think of ourselves as an independent body that moves into a neutral space, but it is fact an exchange between body and place; the space is created by people and it changes through interaction. A place is not a frozen moment, it constantly changes. Geography // Materials // History // Culture // Memories We went on a walk in order to determine sites of interest, but I engaged with the walk itself, and documented it in a similar way to my previous walk by photographing the journey using regular shots of the area in front of me. I didn’t look through the viewfinder or at the photographs, just took the shots to look at later. But I did make the conscious decision to have my lens zoomed in as far as possible, so that I could potentially capture more abstracted frames of the environment in front of me. At times we stopped to look at objects or places of interest, but as much as I enjoyed capturing these things, I wanted to focus more on the documentation of the walk itself, and to find interest in the potentially ‘boring’ shots that I take. The next step is to work with the images, perhaps creating another joiner similar to my first, or perhaps focussing on specific photographs and developing them as single images.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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