Archive Images

I had multiple images from each location so this gave me choice. I have narrowed them down and have made slight changes on a few of the images of how I think they can be improved. I have eight final main images for my series. I would have probably had more, but unfortunately due to the Coronavirus outbreak I have not been able to go out and photograph.

Here is a link to my sub-series map images:

Maps

I decided I wanted to add another element to this assignment. I wanted to bring in the constant between the inequality and male dominance eluded to in my main images, and some how show my version of a strong women. I though about this for a long time and decided that I would use images of women from my family. These would come from my own family archive. This would allow the images to be more personal to me and keep to the fact that I am also on my own personal journey. They are my family, the women who have influenced me and made me me, they have ‘followed’ me on this journey, hence why I combined their images with the mapping images. Including the maps was always a part of my original plan, I feel this combination works well together. It shows the woman are following me on my journey as a woman through a male-dominated path.

Here is a link to the accompanying text:

Text

Again text was part of my original plan. I just wasn’t sure what it would say. I thought about maybe a poem, or a speech, but then I decided to keep to the religious theme and use quotes from the bible highlighting the inequality.

Now I have all of my images, I needed to think about how to set them out in a complete series. There are three parts to each image now, similar to a triptych format. Triptych usually has religious connotations, so is apt for my series. For this assignment, I have just set them out, but for my final submission I will sort-out a background for the images to settle on.

I have made some sketches and set the images to see how they look:

I have narrowed it down to two set-ups which I think will look suitable. Here’s the first:

Here’s the second:

Assignment Images

Here are my images as a complete series following the first format:

Location One

Location Two

Location Three

Location Four

Location Five

Location Six

Location Seven

Location Eight

Here are my images as a complete series following the second format:

Location One

Location Two

Location Three

Location Four

Location Five

Location Six

Location Seven

Location Eight

Here are the images by location (not in any format):

Location One

Location Two

Location Three

Location Four

Location Five

Location Six

Location Seven

Location Eight

Sub-Series

May 15, 2020January 31, 2021 georginie

Sub-Series

I felt that I still had more that I could add to my project. This actually coincided with the Coronavirus outbreak. I am having to shield so am unable to go outside and photograph more at the moment. I have always thought about bringing maps into my work, to reinforce the journey part and the give some context but without being too specific. I also thought about how I could contrast the inequality with ‘strong women’. I then had the idea to use images from my own personal archive of female family members and bring these in somehow.

My idea is to combine the map images and the female images together, to symbolise that my family, the strong women are with me on this journey.

Here is my post on my archive images.

I have used Ordinate Survey mapping and have printed them in colour and in black and white, to try and see which suits the format better.

Here is my post on my mapping and combining the images.

I will also be using text alongside my main image and side image, here is a link to my post on texts.

OS Mapping. At: https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk

Bibliography – OS Maps Download

May 15, 2020January 30, 2021 georginie

Archive Images

I have been looking through my archive images of my family for my sub-series experimentation. I have quite a few, so I have re-photographed them for use digitally.

I photographed them, then edited them to crop and straighten and enhance if necessary. Here are the images:

I will now experiment with how to include these in my work. I do like the idea of having images of the women in my family, as it always a connection between my images and myself and my history.

I am thinking of combing the mapping images with these family archive images. I want it to show that these women are on the journey with me, they are my family and are with me. But they will not feature in the main images, in keeping with the exclusion of women theme of my work.

Here are my images cut out:

Here is a link to my mapping images but also of combining the two:

Mapping