Here if my first photoshoot I completed when I received the key word “union”. immediately I though of a union of people and emotions and people. I linked in things that mean a lot to me, but then i realised that these photos didn’t really link in well with the Art movements of surrealism and Dadaism, therefore I decided to keep this as an experiment and not my final work. I was able to get some inspiration for my final project based on how I can introduce my own ideas into the key word “union”.

This virtual gallery doesn’t represent any of my final prints but i felt that it went well with the project theme of union as it helps to show a sense of a community, people that have things in common, for example these photos are related t my family members. These photo’s a family union, things that are important to my family, as I have some old photos of relatives and a photo of a dinning room that is an important factor related to mine and my families up brining. This virtual gallery would have turned out better if I had added a backdrop/ shadow, so that it didn’t look like the photos were just placed down onto a wall. Though I do like how this final virtual gallery turned put as I have the two older photos on the sides and in the middle is a recent photo I had taken of the dinning room, it almost compares how things can change within time and it could also possibly show how society has changed over time, how the internet has improved along with camera quality and how our society is different to back then.

Photoshoot Plan:

For this photoshoot I will be going round and taking different photos of random people I come across on the street, these photos will be candid photos and I will be taking them discretely, each photo I will take will have a different purpose and a different story to tell, most photos have a story behind them and I want to try and create a story behind my photos to show how important everyone around us is and how they impact our life. I would also like to go round and capture photos of peoples windows and try and understand how that window is showing a personality, each persons widow will be decorated differently and that will help to understand what is happening in their life and how they are handling it. I would also like to find some old photos of my family members as it helps to identify how time has changed and how they have changed within time. I really like how things can change over time and you don’t ever realise it. I’m planning on capturing photos that are meaningful to me and show a representation of me and my family, possibly something that happened in the past that i am not aware of that has changed something in my family, possibly an significant even and how it has shaped my family yo be the way they are, my family love capturing memories and have many photo albums stored. I want to take photos to show how our society has shaped and changed everyone, we have the use of social media and internet whereas back then there wasn’t such a thing, we also went through a pandemic and that was quite traumatising to some people, people all around us are feeling things that we wont ever know, the idea that everyone has the same amount of importance.

Here is a selection of random photos I had taken while I went away or when I went out into town, I want to show that every photograph has a purpose and a meaning behind it. All theses photos were taken during different time periods, hence the reason they don’t all look the same. Theses photos are going to help explain a story about everything that is happing around you, how each person has a different life to you and feels different things to you. A few of these photos are meaningful to me as they are people from my family or objects related to my family, some of the photos are pictures of my friends and others are of complete strangers I came across in the streets.

For these two photos I used AI to add people and help make the photo look full and lively, when I originally took theses photos, there weren’t any people present as they were in different rooms, but this was a house that my family members grow up in and now these are only two people left in it, which can make the house look quite lonely, the idea that time changes everything and anything and that now the people living in this house could feel quite lonely and lost without there children being home, if you were to look at this house from the outside, you wouldn’t get this rush of emotions, you would simply feel that its a nice house and its quite big, but you don’t ever consider the history of the house ad the people that grew up in it, the people who has their whole childhood in that house and now it’s left alone without anyone to fill it up and use it. In the first photo, it’s a picture of the dinning room, where my family members would go and eat everyday and talk about how they days are, now it doesn’t get used much as the people still living in the house feel too captivated by loneliness to sit on the table alone. I asked AI to add people sitting down and eating but somehow the photo still feels empty, there is a sense of something missing but you still cant work it out. It’s the idea that this room means a lot to a person, while others may believe it’s just a simple room filled with decorations, everyone has a different life and has experienced different memories. The second photo is a photo of the living room, this room is used a lot more than the dinning room but when I went to take a photo of it, it was empty. yet again I asked AI to add people and some children playing around to make the photo feel alive and colourful, I had even added some lights at the top, to add more spirit to the room. Some of the props in the room have changed around, for example the tv was locked into the a box and the tv was turned off, so i asked AI to make a tv to make it look as if he people in the room where watching the tv. I really like how in the corner of the room their is a small girl playing with a doll house which looks really realistic, this little girl looks similar to a photo I found of two children sat in a field of cows posing for the camera, that photo is also a photo of my family members, therefore the photo helps to add meanings to it’s real purpose of showing how each individual holds onto a certain memory.

These two photos were taken exactly 1 minute apart, which helps to picture how fast things can change, some people have stayed the same in this photo but others have moved around and even disappeared from the photo, this is showing that anything can happen within a couple of minutes. Every single person in this photo has their own life to live and are doing different thing, for example, the 3-4 people at the top looking down at the town on the rest of the people, these people haven’t moved within the minute whereas most of the people at the bottom have changed position. For example, the grey van at the bottom has changed place and is no longer in sight. This could represent the meaning that nothing is promised and a specific life event can change everything.

Here ae some of the photos from Photoshoot 3, these are the photos of peoples windows and how everyone has different decorations in front of their window, for example, certain windows have lights turned on and therefore makes it easier to look inside, some other windows have curtains blocking us from looking inside and some windows are completely pitch black with no lights, which could suggest that no one is home. I do like how these turned out as they are quite similar to my inspiration photo, but I did have to crop the photos as there were trees in front of the apartments and there were street lamps also in the way, I preferred taking these pictures during night time as in the day you don’t really get to see much action in the apartments as people are mostly at work or outside, whereas at night people have their lights on dew to the darkness outside. Also if you were to look at the middle window in the middle, the window changes as in the top photo the window blinds are closed and you aren’t able to see anything whereas on the bottom photo there is a persons figure showing, indicating that they are closing the blinds. The shows that things can change very quickly.

Here is a different building of someone’s window, these windows all look different, as the middle window has a light turned on, with a small table and a plant in front of it. The top window has some boxes in front of the window, implying that someone is either moving in or moving out, there don’t seem to be any sign of lights being turned on, which could mean that no on is home whereas the bottom window also has boxes in front of the window and shows a little bit of light in the corned of the apartment. Each apartment holds a different personality and is customised differently, just like people are. We each have different style and interests depending on the way we were brought up or how good we are at something. Each factor changes things completely. For example if you were brought up without a certain thing then it could most likely not be involved when your older.

These photos are older photos of my family members, the bottom photo shows two children sat in a cow field owned by their dad, this photo is really meaningful as it keeps a memory of their childhood and how close their bond was, now they aren’t close and don’t really speak to each other, their bond was broken through time. This photo also represents how they will never be this young again and its a way of looking back and remembering how happy they were. This photo was obviously taken in France, where they grey up, the cow farm was their second home as they did spend a lot of time playing and running around the field, this photo captured a moment they will never capture again. Then there is a photo of a lady pouring a drink, this photo is very nostalgic to me as I didn’t get to know her young, I’ve known her as a slightly older lad and I never got to experience her fun side, she is a family member that lives very far away from me. Therefore it’s hard for me to capture memories of her. lastly the photo of the building id meaningful to me as its a business building owned by one of my family members, with our shared last name printed on it. This is a building I have never come across and when I did I though it would be a good photo to have and hold as a memory. That area of France is filled with good memories though I didn’t really get to experience them as I grew up in Jersey, but these photographs help to prove how memories can stay alive.

Lastly, here is a photos of a mysterious figures walking in the dark, it’s seems to be that the figure is walking toward the edge of something, the photo slightly blurry due to the gradient effect added which helped to define each and every detail. I had to do some editing and used AI for the corner of the photo as there was a bright light shining through, I wanted to get rid of the light and simply darken the photo to help make it look more mysterious. It also helped to avoid any distractions from the figure as she is the main focus of the photo. I also believe that the strong colour of blue helps to add emotion to the photo, it almost makes the photo look sad and unsettling. Whereas if the girl was to wear an orange jumper, the whole mood of the photo would be different.