My Proposal
First idea
I decided not to carry this out because I wasn't fully pleased with this idea which left me thinking heavily on ideas however I didn't have any. I then had the idea of not having an idea and filming myself cry because I thought i'd fail. This was an idea I was happy to carry out which then led me to my next idea, I was doing research on a variety of photographers where I then produced the next idea which is what I ended up carrying out.
Jeff Wall - Feels that you can’t capture a moment, after the second you have seen and witnessed that moment it is gone, and you can't take a picture of it. Therefore he recreates the ones that he feels is a perfect moment for a picture. In his photographs they are all past experiences that he has seen and with the use of editing softwares, a camera and a few models he's able to make those experiences again. I thought that this aspect would really help me with my own work because it would mean that I could see a moment I liked, keep a note of it and then recreate it for my images.
Paul Graham - Takes images of landscapes that have a charged "trouble" within it with a significant meaning. For example Graffiti on Motorway Sign. This is part of his collection entitled Troubled Land, there would be a interesting landscape however there would be one issue in it causing the meaning of the image to change, and for that one aspect to completely stand out looking out of place. When looking at Grahams images I felt like this was related to Broombergs due to the manipulation of making one object stand out. For example there will be a blue sign which is a completely different colour compared to everything else forcing it to be the key focus. In Broombergs work he edits the image so that you only see one aspect to it, taking it out of context like what the blue sign does.
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin - Focus on one aspect to their image by removing everything that is around it. These images are also in black and white with a grainy feel to them. Brromberg and Chanarins images are what have inspired me the most, how they are manipulating the audience by not showing you the full picture. This reminded me of the question What is Photography? Many answers were capturing a moment, but how can you capture a moment if the moment is a lie? Which is why I wanted to create something like Broomberg and Chanarin do, but with my own twist to it.