Pitch

Documentary photography aims to record the lives of people or places; however, this always seems to be subjective and to be from the point of view of the photographer, so I decided to instead give the camera to the people, and see how what they take differs from my own photos. I am not sure whether I will do a photo project showing a place (St James street, Covered Market) or age range (children vs adult) just children, or myself versus the person I am documenting. I hope to combine the photos I have into a sort of online documentary of photos, or to create an interactive installation by the degree show.

In the style of http://www.juliangermain.com/projects/no-olho.php

This was doen in 17 years, I will not have that space of time, but this varied and interesting style is what I am thinking of doing. i would also like to create a sort of online space for it.

http://the100.thinkplaymake.co/ Or like this; voices of many people working to make a big project.


possible ideas

1) Get 24 different people in brighton- from child to grandma, busniess man and beggar- to take 24 photos in 24 hours, and map it.

2) get people in an all-encomapssing place (ie- covered market oxford, or snoopers paradies, or st james street) to take photos over a month or week, and then to make a online map of them, with written accounts. (in the case of covered market/snoopers paradise, this could be about troubles of independce)

3) Work with children in several classes and encourage them to take photos of their lives, and then do an installation wherby you have to be small to view it- representing themsleves.

4) Children versus adult; this would probably have to base around some event; buit might show the difference in adult photo taking (which is dominated by convention) and child photo taking (which is not)

5) Give the camera to people who do not often have voices. I was thinking homeless people (not sure how that would work) tio take photos of Brighton and their lives. I was also thinking some of the mentally handicapped people who work on the Oska Bright film festival; they do not often get a chance to express themsleves creativly.

6) Finally, and more conventionally, portraits where I take a photo (how i think a portrait should be) contrasted with their own ideas of how they should be represented.


Possible theories this relates to:
-Anything ethical- about represntation and if its right to take a photo.
-Disposible and it's "analogue" nostalgia
-A what is photography" debate on whether photography has to be just someone holding a camera. (art versus reality)
-How we read a photograph and conventions of a norm.