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POWER.
-relationships in the family-
my main idea for the artifact was to do with ‘The Family’. I wanted to do a photography piece that was more light hearted and just more pleasant to research into. I had trouble thinking about how to do it and I initially thought about doing in the style of a documentary but sadly didn’t use my time efficiently, I don’t have much experience also.
I wanted to do something more personal to me. I started thinking about what was powerful in my life or had been. I looked at relationships within my family. my family has always been very important to me and I always find myself just watching the relationships around me for example, my sister and her boyfriend. Their relationship is very ‘up and down’ and I think I tried to show that here.
The style in which I was trying to achieve was a ‘snapshot’. The feel that nothing was too staged, some of the photos are out of focus because I wanted to make them not so prominent, as if you just took a glance, not really concentrating on what was going on. I want the images to be viewed as a whole not just individually, because thats how I view my family, when we all got together I ran around talking to everyone.
I chose these photos as I thought they portrayed the relationships how I see them. Sometimes the relationships I expected to be close can look so cold from an onlookers point of view, for example this last photo of my Dad and my Gran (his Mom). I always thought they were close but when watching them together, they’re not as tight-knit as i’d presumed. On the other hand with photography, how much is the truth? and is the tightness between the relationships something that needs to be evident in body language on a photo? are actions louder than words?
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.WORKBOOK IDEAS AND THOUGHTS.
In the first few thoughts when I got the theme ‘Power’ I thought of the obvious, government, dominance, the power of advertising, celebrities, money, religion etc. I started looking through magazines to go down the ‘power of the media’ route.
.my workbook.
I looked through many magazines especially gossip/women’s weeklys. looking at the magazines; the theme of ‘how to look’ or ‘what you should wear’ came up many times which got me thinking about the pressures of young women in society today. The magazines give you guides on what to wear and show countless images of ‘stick thin’ celebrities promoting the “lollipop head” look, where its fashionable to have a head that looks out of proportion to your body, some compare this look to celebrities such as Victoria Beckham and the Olsen Twins. I looked at these magazines and the headings, “Bad Clothes” and “Style Stalker” thinking who actually comes up with these opinions?
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From this point I started to look at how Images like these and the stigma attached to “looking” a certain way can corrupt someone’s way of thing, especially young, naive and impressionable teenagers trying to learn how to accept themselves. We hear many stories of how the media can cause celebrities to look a certain way and many people today look at these sources and think that they should ‘be like them’.
