Category: PHO701:Work in Progress/Project Development

Week 4 Postions ans Practice is Collaboration week. We spoke about the process of collaboration then set out to fulfil the task of colaborating in groups of 2-3. Our task set was to post a piece of poetry,prose or lyric,some words that meant something to us.I’m not much of a expert on petry per se but I do like a good lyric,poetry to me !  I posted ‘Life is just a bowl of cornflakes,you wake up every morning and its there” not too profound but it lends it self well to interpretation.In my case and so it seems Juanita who joined me it explores the ordinary,the stuff thats always there but you never see.Like a lot of photographers,I see a lot more pictures than I actually take,I think Henri Cartier Bresson said something along these lines and I agree.So Juanita and I set out to photograph our surroundings,me in suburban London her in suburban Bristol.I think what surprised us both the most was the way we had without knowing it mimicked each others work,all be it hers was a bit more ornate and perhaps gentler and mine was very brutal and a little angrier in aethestic but interestingly both exploring the same thing.Which as with lots of collaborative projects deviated a little from the original plan and ended up exploring more about Humans effect and relationship with nature and how now matter how much concrete and bricks we lay down nature seems to always win through.I think you may see that in the zine we produced,where we laid out one image from my work alongside Juanitas and vise versa. Above from the top you will see my images followed by Juanitas followed at the bottom by the zine.Hope you enjoy it.