Proposal
Subject – Identity and Place – to learn more about myself, my environment and be part of my community. To follow and visually document the Friends of Sinfin Moor Park, the work they do on the nature reserve/ park. The people that use this space and the environmental impact of changes that Sinfin is currently undergoing over a period of 12 months. Aims – 1. To complete an element of my photographic degree. Develop my photographic practice by engaging with my local community to create a project that engages people 2. To broaden my own relationship with my community and the environment 3. To help promote/ visually educate the community about The Friends of Sinfin Moor Park (FOSMP), the work they do and the impact we can have on the local environment. 4. To provide the FOSMP selected images that can be used freely on their website, social media platform. To help promote the work they do and to help educate the wider community to the work they undertake and its importance. 5. To work alongside FOSMP in terms photographic work – being open to any suggestion they may have. 6. The potential interaction with the nature club on a creative level to create work in a collaborative manner. 7. To record a balanced overview of the surround area and the impact we have on the environment – for example images of litter. Giving people room for potential reflection on our actions and the effect on the environment and community. It will not all be visually positive. Target Audience – The local community Context – 1. Work created will be submitted has part of my degree. 2. Visual work to be display both online and in print 3. At the end of the 12 months my aim is to organize a local exhibition within the local community. Has the industrial areas continue to grow alongside residential development, the more it will impact on the surrounding area. The work of the FOSMP will become more important in the conservation of the remaining natural habit Background info for people attending Sundays Hangout. http://www.sinfinnaturereserve.org.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/Sinfin-nature-clubfriends-of-sinfin-moor-park-237306566618198/ https://infinityparkderby.com/ https://www.gov.uk/government/news/first-ever-garden-villages-named-with-government-support https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/residents-slam-controversial-waste-plant-2021845
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There is a danger that I put to much focus to much on the place, a danger that it becomes a landscape unit. There is an element of edgelands in my thinking but I need to find my place within it. An honesty that may be uncomfortable, that maybe I don't give a shit. Familiarity breeds contempt, indifference and maybe the place that I live is drowning in it or maybe its just me I am not sure which is worst.
This square mile I have lived in for 41 years has changed so much, it is so familiar I have become blind to it and the changes within. The surrounding green land given away to industry and new housing. This place I call Sinfin feels more like an industrial estate or at least surrounded by it. Sinfin my home is in transition and I am not sure how or when it happened, it is in between it is becoming an edgeland a liminal space sold like it is a positive move, progress, the future. I am not sure, on the face of it is positive progress but it comes at a cost.
I do think that potentially the next 12 months could be very interesting, this building is or will be home to a number of companies I believe, office space rented out. Recently a company moved in that is involved in nuclear research and development in what capacity I am unsure. I wonder if photography is allowed outside of the building or is it considered a sensitive building.
I decided to build my confidence, I thought it would be good to practice being out in the open with my camera. The local park seemed to be the route one approach to this assignment, completely accessible within walking distance from where I live, with a steady stream of people.
I felt that I need to build myself up, no doubt if I was less than committed with zero or little confidence the unknown person I approached would almost certainly pick up on this and if you added poor preparation in terms of taking the portrait would be a receipt for failure. So I used my wife has a test subject along side some images of the surrounding environment. Both the familiar and non familiar. Taken 2019 Taken 2017 part of Context and Narrative http://somewhereandnowhere.weebly.com/final-assignment-1.html [Accessed 11/02/19]
My mind is a little like this kitchen, its full of stuff, disorganised, its everywhere but it is just me. I do worry that the assignments appear to be fixed and rigid with little room for me to move around in. In the past I have focused and primarily work within the home looking within. I am uncertain how to approach these new assignments apart from assignment 5 which is a comfortable open brief. Can I successfully project myself or at least part of myself into others? I am not sure, but I do know I can't just go out and grab people for portrait photography that would be pointless, it would render it a meaningless photographic exercise, a just for the sake of it. Childhood memory that I can't really remember some images I that I have never shared the same time or space. Cut fragmented, divided and maybe to a degree divisive and reordered. This work has be made and sent to another student with an invite to change, reorder, damage basic an open invite to do whatever they see fit. There is no guarantee that this will never return to me, gone forever.
Archive material in which the scanner created these odd glitch's. It produced them in a square format and cut there corners leaving a grey area and a line that is quite blocky. A little like https://iam1point4.weebly.com/journal/initial-look-at-square-mile
I placed the two scanned images side by side. Sundays are days of brief moments of boredom, Sundays also happen to be one of my most favourite days of the week. These brief moments of boredom happen just before noon, in between things. I offer to help but generally I get in the way. Maybe its an avoidance strategy developed in childhood one that almost guarantees a "thanks but piss off" response.
I fill these brief moments of boredom with brief experiments or brief moments of taking photographs or both. Sometimes it is just a way of filling time, sometimes it is just a brief time for play, a brief return to freedom. Now there's a word if I have ever seen one..............in fact a word that never existed (for me at least) until last the other day after receiving formative feedback from an assignment in context and narrative (overlapping module).
A-U-T-O-E-T-H-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y Reflective, reflexive, introversion the me myself and I.....looking for self, meaning and placement, anchorage between the inside and the outside world and my relationship with everything within it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIvC0IohRVc [accessed 05/02/19] |