I have been working my degree students to undertake some of the projects we set, alongside them. I teach photography and this was the students first exploration into moving image. The brief was to produce a silent video of one minute using a fix camera position, starting with Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat by the Lumière Brother (1896). The rationale was to use a photographic frame, but allow the contents to move. References for this project included films by Andy Warhol, Ori Gersht, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Greta Alfaro and Bill Viola.
I have been working in my local area photographing people who work, live or have a connection with Mirfield. The idea of the project is to celebrate the diverse people and the good work that is undertaken within my local area.
In further to the work I did with the Family Album, I have been undertaking smaller projects investigating memories. Some of which are a departure to the project, but are still framed around the notion of the family snap or memories. The following is a set of photographs (shot on out of date 120 Fuji NPS) is of a park I visited only once.
The memory was of a woodland walk and a rope slide. I was asking if the location felt familiar or whether I was simply joining up the dots and in actual fact updating my memories.
