Matt Johnston talk
We also had another talk in the afternoon today from Matt, who spoke to us about photobooks, which was a really interesting talk and made me think about whether or not I want my project to end up being a book in the end. Matt often writes about photobooks for publications as it is something he is interested in.
Photobookclub.org is the website he manages. An experiment he did was that he sent out a box of books to one Photobook club and then this one sent it to another, until it ended up getting back to Matt. When it came back (which took longer than he thought it would - it took 18 months), it was filled with things from the various countries and cultures it had travelled to. I thought this was interesting as the clubs didn't have to put anything into the box, but had decided to.
A task that we had to do in groups was to put images from a project he gave us into little groups and ultimately place these images into one whole sequence - as if it was to be placed into a book. Although not part of the task was to work with people we didn't know, I ended up working with some first years who I didn't know and I felt this helped with the process as it gave different viewpoints on the work and showed how things can be seen very differently by people.
This set of images resembles loss in different ways, even though this isn't perhaps what the images each represent. In the top left image the statue has lost its head, the woman looks as though she is holding an image of a loved one who is no longer here and the bottom image is a collapsed building.
This group of images shows family life in one way or another, with 2 people stood together, an image of a photograph of what looks like a family and then finally an image of what looks like a neighbourhood.
Photobookclub.org is the website he manages. An experiment he did was that he sent out a box of books to one Photobook club and then this one sent it to another, until it ended up getting back to Matt. When it came back (which took longer than he thought it would - it took 18 months), it was filled with things from the various countries and cultures it had travelled to. I thought this was interesting as the clubs didn't have to put anything into the box, but had decided to.
A task that we had to do in groups was to put images from a project he gave us into little groups and ultimately place these images into one whole sequence - as if it was to be placed into a book. Although not part of the task was to work with people we didn't know, I ended up working with some first years who I didn't know and I felt this helped with the process as it gave different viewpoints on the work and showed how things can be seen very differently by people.
I placed all of the images out of the envelope onto the floor, but decided to place them like this so that we could see what we were working with as there wasn't much space to work on and also allowed the images to work together in a way as they were close to each other. I think placing the images in this way creates a really interesting and aesthetically pleasing project.
This set of images resembles loss in different ways, even though this isn't perhaps what the images each represent. In the top left image the statue has lost its head, the woman looks as though she is holding an image of a loved one who is no longer here and the bottom image is a collapsed building.
This group of images shows family life in one way or another, with 2 people stood together, an image of a photograph of what looks like a family and then finally an image of what looks like a neighbourhood.
This is something where each image doesn't have something similar; it works more as a conceptual piece. There is an image taken looking up, looking straight ahead, and looking down.
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