Re..Presenting

I feel that now I have discovered HOW and WHAT I am photographing it is time to concentrate my efforts on DISPLAYING my images. The nature of the project has always depended on the physicality of the negatives as objects. Representing them as scans on this blog does still not really do them justice, I have has edits where the montages do not align perfectly and so the fluidity and nature of the movement I undergo when photographing becomes distorted. I have to ask how much I want my movement when photographing to be shown? The answer to this is very important, within every chapter of the project the physical act of walking, noticing and photographing has become QUINTESSENTIAL.

 I once went to a festive where the main motif was "Leave only footprints" and in a way I feel that these frames, overlapping and sporadic are my indexical footprints, they record the space that I have walked through. To take the strip of negatives and scan them in sections (not always perfectly aligned) becomes a distancing between what I do and what people see I do, there is a layer of photoshoped-falsity placed over the shots. I can alter colors in one section, crop out segments I do not enjoy and perhaps most importantly share them within the digital sphere.. this strips them of an AURA that Walter Benjamin effectively described in "Art in the Age of Mechanincal Reproduciton" the images are best viewed directly in a real sphere of life, AS OBEJCTS.

All of this became more noticeable when I photographed on SLIDE FILM as the images become a positive on the film.. they are images created in line with the physical nature of the film they are photographed on. As I said earlier I am confident on how am going to shoot:

-On slide film 100 ISO (is a cheap way of photographing with a fine grain)

-On the Brownie

-Rotating the cog half way each time and shooting across the whole negative

- On a SUNNY DAY where I can get a good light reading at the Brownies limitations: 40th second at F14.

After discovering this part of the task I have also discovered WHAT I'm going to shoot:

-Fences in Cities

-Have to be harsh looking i.e. brutalist architecture, there cannot be any element of grandeur around the fences.

So again now I understand what I am going to photograph and how the question is becoming how can I complete the nature of the project with a way of presenting that relates to the key principles I am investigating:

-The movement through space

-The camera as a way of recording footprint

-The physical object of the negative and its limitations as a space

-The distortion of space when it becomes photographed (where I took 10 steps taking an image the viewer would probably see it whilst remaining still)

To respond to these aims I will conduct some initial ideas about how to present my work!