Photography Projects
In these times dominated by the pandemic many photographers, including myself, have documented the lockdown. A documentary series can often turn into a photographic project. Most projects probably start when a photographer finds themselves drawn to a few similar subjects and realises that they have a personal interest in the images. Something drives them to adding to the sequence, continuing to build the project, sometimes for months, years or a never ending quest. So what makes a photographic project ? How is it defined ? A project is a series or sequence of images, no set number taken over any length of time and telling a story that is personal to the
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aid the understanding of the viewer. Adding prose to photographs goes against the grain for some conventional photographers as the old adages of ‘every picture tells a story’ and ‘photographs should speak for themselves’ can cloud their thinking when it comes to projects but there has to be a different train of thought as projects are not about the single image they are about a sequence of pictures that have to be seen together in order to make sense, to expand on the idea.
photographer. The images can be of found subjects or set up scenes, anything goes. Only your passions and imagination can limit you.
On this page there are pictures from a project that I have been working on for a number of years. The project is called ‘Time Worn’ and illustrates how time brings about decay in many forms but that process can render the subject more interesting than the pristine original.
Photo projects often need a narrative to
I liken this to the human ageing process. The
