Feedback

I decided to get feedback from friends, family and fellow students through the email chat. I sent the images with the briefest information, as I wanted their first impressions. A few were kind enough to give their feedback. A couple asked for the context and reasoning behind the images in order to make their mind up, which is far enough as sometimes your do need the background information. One said that you could see the locations vary so would have guessed it wa following a particular denomination, which is not a million miles away but it is following a pilgrimage. With the background information, they could see what I was trying to show. They all got the religious theme and some even the gender inequality. A couple were not sure about using collage but they did say it was their own personal opinions on collages, but others said it looked great. One person advised that one image didn’t look completely right, so I did revisit this image to see and I tried something slightly different, which I found did improve it. Someone else liked the fact that the images of the women were not in the main image, rather on the map images. Which I believe also shows the inequality, the women are on the journey (feature on the maps) but are not in the main picture. They are sort of excluded from it. With the inclusion of the text, people believe this aides in seeing that my work is about gender inequality. The text supports the aim of my work. I do agree with people as I feel the text just adds that element of context to the images. The layout of the images has positive feedback, many liked the overlapping look, as it’s not all “neat” and “held-together”. With family, the feedback was similar, the only difference being that they have known my intention and the background since the start so the have been able to see my work evolve. They have helped along the way and can see my reasoning.