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Number 23A case of Memories

SHARON KERLO Photographer

Table of Contents Overview of Project...................................................1 Overview of Project...................................................2 Overview of Project...................................................3 Retrospect of Boards 1-4...........................................4 Retrospect of Boards 5-8 ..........................................4 A little about Me....................................................... 5

Overview of Project Number 23 was where my Nan lived, fifth floor of a tower block in WhiteHawke, Brighton. The windows over looked the sea, the racecourse and Brighton marina. I loved watching the storms come in almost always showing off great lightning shows. Most of my childhood was spent here, weekend after weekend, birthdays, weddings, Christmases, christenings and Funerals. It all happened at Nan’s. These are of course memories, my memories of how it was then.

It is the need to keep images of the past fresh in my mind and this need comes from not wanting to forget how it was, how I remember. I wanted to remember the people and places, the happy times but also the sad times, I knew this journey would be one of personal expressiveness, I needed to rebuild a bubble that I had put people and places in, a bubble that was burst dramatically when I was told things about my family that I didn’t know, things that were upsetting and not how I remembered, relationships seemed different to me, places seemed different to me, hidden dramas and truths. The image that I had built up of people had been changed by comments that I did not want to believe or even think about, The Brighton that I knew and remembered had been changed forever.

The voyage of remembering and replacement began by firstly being given lots of old photographs of me as a child, images that reflected a happy childhood, one of a strong family circle, holidays and days out.

These memories came from the “case of Memories”, a suitcase that my mum has filled over the years with all the family photographs. I felt the need to retrace these memories now. Taking images of Brighton that I had in my memory was testing, I wanted to trace my childhood and adolescence, remembering the places I had visited, I knew that reflecting on things I remembered would be a challenging task, but memories of how I remembered events, people and places was going to be one of recollection and one of times gone by.

Number 23- ‘A case of memories’ takes form as a multimedia exhibition that incorporates chosen old family photographs that are juxtapose with new images, letters and possessions; a series of documentary style landscape images, exploring memory and how we use photography to remember and the idea that photography may replace memories, revealing that we begin to depend on images to help us remember focusing on a more personal subject, a delicate journey of memory and reflection, not only fueling my motivation but a way to explore some of my feelings about my life, people and possessions.

The Project also examines how images can signify different meanings to viewers and evoke feelings and emotions of the past and how these images are used as tactile objects to visually trigger memories of places and people, by revealing these feelings and drawing on the personal experiences of the viewers of the images, I will be able to capture the power of images and the significance of these for memories by comments and feelings of the viewers, through conversation and written thoughts.

The piece of work is of contemporary fine art in a documentary style, including a collection of landscape, portrait and still life images that builds up into a series of prints.

A short documentary film is also accompanying the photographs to share sounds and memories of the past and present, to add narrative to the exhibition.

This is a project from the heart and the mind, showing a journey of memory and loss, but also one of rebuilding.

Board 1 Text and title board a short explanation of the exhibition

Board 2 Waste land function- a series of c-type 35 mm prints.

Taken on a park that I played on as a child. These images reflect the stark reality that over time thinks change, disappear and urban social spaces fade away. A production of environmental images spontaneously taken around the now waste land, showing a bubbling undercurrent in the work, suggesting loss and emptiness.

Board 3 Number 23- Digital c-type Prints 16x12

Larger colour prints demonstrate the importance of the use of colour in photography particularly when demonstrating, provoking memories, generating ideas and thoughts and stimulating feelings, drawing on a more complex ideology of viewpoint.

The staircase and door of Number 23 reveal a poignant point of the collection.

Board 4 Racecourse- Series of Monochrome silver Gelatine 35mm 7x5 Prints.

Using Monochrome prints to express nothingness and a pensive moment in time.

The use of black and white can show the images in a more simplistic form signifying adolescence and youthfulness, bringing the journey to life of the photographer adding feelings to the baron and yet enthusing area around the racecourse. making a conscious aesthetic statement. The racecourse was visible from the flat, the tunnel, dark, creating obscurity, shadows of the unknown, intimidating you from the entrance. Images are suspended in time.

Board 5 Resting Place- Series of monochrome silver Gelatine 35mm 7x5 Prints.

Nothingness is created with a set of monochrome prints from the graveside, accentuating the demise of an era and the loss of a loved one. These images are a stark reminder that all things must come to an end, the holding of the stones, a nuance to the dust to dust that couldn’t be carried out at the time.

Board 6 Queens park- Series of monochrome silver Gelatine 35mm 7x5 Prints

The tones and shadows in the monochrome images of Queen’s park are a recollection of childhood memories, interpretation of reflections, not just on the clear duck pond but on childhood memories spent at the park.

Board 7 Collective-Mixed images of memories of Brighton.

C-Type digital prints

These images are a collective set of images of memories that represent the time spent and the topics that surround the area.

Board 8 Brighton rocks- Large scale c-type print

Representative or the iconic sweet the image is placed in full colour the largescale print showing the importance and the grand scale of rock, that icon of the great British seaside resort but one of personal importance. It would always symbolize the end of our visit.

About me My interests in photography are in Fine art, Social documentary, reportage and editorial. I believe that I am capturing memories, I am a visual story teller and that my images can transform communities, transfer knowledge and make a positive difference, through the passionate use of expressive, artistic photographs taken with the highest level of attention to detail in a professional manner. Excelling in customer service and building client relationships.

My images are personal and individual to the and portray scenes that you may not have thought of in a certain way, a snippet of life that has been forgotten. I produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of subjects, most often images of people and places, using both Digital and Film photography and I love to make books My Images are as unique and individual as I am, it is in this unique style that I can share with others through my visual storytelling, strong, bespoke images in an artistic and expressive way. Sharon.

Contact Me Phone: 07411578898 Email: sharonkerlo@yahoo.co.uk Web: sharonkerlophotography.com @sharonkerlophotography sharonkerlophotography