My initial idea is to document experiences/events that defines someone and has an impact their life. I will use quotes found on brainyquote.com as a stimulus for each shot, and to help bring to the foreground what the image is trying to portray. By linking a quote with an image, it creates a postcard-like response to a change in someone's life, resulting in a souvenir to that person about a time in their life. These changes could include a job, family, disasters or even government. All of these changes involve people, which suggests that these changes can be influenced or even prevented. The mind can be weak and can be controlled with ease, if you know how. Every action people make has a motive, we should make it our responsibility to make sure these motives are positive, and cause the least harm possible to other people.
I am inspired, firstly, by the work of Shizuka Yokomizo because, in her 'Dear Stranger' project, I admire how to did not communicate with who she was documenting. More to that, I admire the purity of the documentary. The fact that she is taking a picture of someone, in their own home and through their own window, somehow removes the mask that some people may try to put on in front of the camera. Secondly, I am inspired by the works of Andy Hughes because, in his project 'Dominant Wave Theory', he has taken amazing beach shots but has ruined them with the litter in the foreground. This could suggest that Andy Hughes is of the opinion that litter is drastically tarnishing the world and people should recognise the beauty and power of nature. Thirdly, I am inspired by the works of Andrea Bruce because I think she captures perfectly the emotion, and the problems that arise in the middle east as a result of war. Andrea Bruce, a war photographer, can relate to the theme of 'postcard' because her shots capture key moments of people lives like a souvenir, which is fundamentally all a postcard is.
For my exam piece, I intend to create a documentary on key moments in people's lives. If I was to achieve this through the inspiration of Shizuka Yokomizo, I would, like Yokomizo, send an anonymous letter. But instead of just asking them to stand in the window, I would ask them to stand in the window doing/holding something the has changed their life in some way. If I was to achieve this through the inspiration of Andy Hughes, I would research the most popular ways that changed people's lives, and represent them like the litter in his project 'Dominant Wave Theory', an entity that is significant in a shot. If I was to achieve this through the inspiration of Andrea Bruce, I would go out into the world, to places that have a great influence on people's lives, and capture the emotion of people there.
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