Introduction To Everyday Connections

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In our everyday lives we are constantly making connections between different things. These connections can be entertaining and often intriguing, but they also become a key tool in helping us to understand, describe and navigate the world around us.

Over time we individually develop the way in which we observe our everyday surroundings. One thing may catch your eye but go unnoticed by others. Through this brief, we’ll begin to think about the way we see the world and how we can communicate our personal view using observational photography as a tool to create a short sequences of images.

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Brief

 

Through sequences of 5 photographs, we are going to create visual journeys, narratives or puzzles where the viewer is challenged to find the connections between one image and the next. There are so many ways in which one image could connect to the next. Naturally, we may first think about visual connections like colour, shape, form, size and material, but there are also interesting connections to be found in literal, emotional and historical connections such as location, purpose, association and language. How can we produce sequences of photographs that feel like our personal point of view, when we are using objects and locations that may be recognisable to us all? Try to find connections, objects and locations that work next to each other in interesting and unexpected ways.

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This brief does not involve drawing or collage, but we can approach photography in the same way we would any other work. Thinking about content, composition, colours, texture,

tone, shadow, framing. We’ll begin by exploring the environment around us, taking photographs of whatever catches our eye.

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For the next session you must take at least 50 photographs. Edit the digital shots and print out 25 of the most interesting ones to bring in with you.

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During this first session we will begin the editing process away from the screen. Being able to move images around quickly and test how they work in different sequences helps to keep the editing process spontaneous and instinctive. Use this process of editing to inform your ideas, you will need to shoot new images regularly and assess the results, each time becoming more focused in what you want to shoot and why.

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For the following week you must bring in 25 more photographs. During this second session we will explore three strategies for editing and sequencing images; typology, chronology and continuity.

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This brief will conclude on the final session with an exhibition presentation of your final selected sequence of 5 photographs. You will have to consider how your 5 images sit next to each other? What effect do they create as a whole? How are they likely to be read by a viewer, when seen for the first time?

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YOU WILL NEED A CAMERA FOR THIS PROJECT ANY KIND OF CAMERA WILL DO

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YOU WILL ALSO BE REQUIRED TO PRINT YOUR IMAGES IN ORDER TO EDIT AND PRESENT.

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Outputs for Assessment

• Documentation of multiple iterations of your photographic sequences

• Well documented evidence of your research, process and presentation to be presented on your blog using illustration, photography, text, video and sound.

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Continuation

 

Continue to explore visual sequences through editing found and constructed images. Use this process to assist when developing narrative and sequential design work in the future.