For my final exam project based on the brief of ‘Observe, Seek, Challenge’, I want to explore the practice of street photography and immerse myself and my images in the individual style of each city I visit.
This is important to me because I am lucky enough to travel to numerous cities fairly frequently with my mum and so I would like to portray these cities in the way that I see them. As I already have quite a good archive of images from various cities I will use these, but I also plan to build on them with three more photoshoots in Edinburgh, York, and Jersey. I think that this should result in a contrast between the more busy cities such as Paris, New York, and Athens and the smaller cities and towns, such as York and St Helier.
I plan to present this in a photobook – but not a printed one. I plan to print the images at a 6×4 size and then put them in a typical photo album/scrapbook you can buy from a stationery shop to create a homemade effect, like images from a family holiday.
I will begin by editing and selecting my existing photoshoots and then I will make new photoshoots, before editing them all. I want to take traditional street photography style images, like my artist references do, of people and life in the cities. I would also like to create images that do not contain people, and instead show the city’s architecture and style, as I feel that this is just as important in encapsulating the feel of a place.
The cities I have already photographed are Paris, London, Amsterdam, Athens, New York, and St Malo. I am not sure yet whether I will present the images all together in a specific order based on complementary images or whether I will present them in chapter-like sections for each city to show the travelling between them.
I do not think I will choose to manipulate my images with photoshop, however I will be editing them slightly to create a more professional look and create more links with my artists (who shoot in black and white).
