The main idea you have when you think of union, is people and a community of people, I though that, that could be good idea, however it would be quite common. I want to Incorporate emotions and people together, and show how each person can have an emotional impact on others. I like the idea that everyone has different things going on in their lives and how each person reacts to things differently, it helps to make people more unique. People change emotions every second of the day and it would be quite cool to capture a few of those emotions, whether if that’s by taking candid photos or staged photos of a model in the studio. By showing emotions I don’t necessarily have to capture it on someone’s face but it can be by the way a person acts, their hobbies or even just by putting a certain colour over a photo. Most colours have an associated emotion, for example people would tend to see red as anger or love, purple as boredom and blue as sadness.
Union of people:
Sonder- (psychology) sonder: the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one’s own, which they are constantly living despite one’s personal lack of awareness of it.
- A picture of someone up close, portrait, turn it into a black and white effect using the threshold filter.
- Someone up close and a smaller edited person next to them or on their head.
- Pictures of peoples windows with silhouettes
For final project, the theme union was given, to me union is a community of people together, it could be focused on their emotions or the clothes they wear, the food they eat and so on. When I heard the theme union, I immediately thought of the word sonder, sonder is known as the profound feeling of realisation that everyone around you, even the strangers walking past you has a life just as complicated and difficult as yours that they are constantly living despite one’s personal lack of awareness of it. The way I see it is a union of people and emotions, each person carries different emotions and each person decides to hide it in a specific way, some more than others, and it is important not to judge people for the way they show emotions. For this project I want to be able to capture peoples true emotions and there life, their real life, that isn’t staged. This could consist of just walking around the island and talking candid pictures of strangers to capture the true moment, but I’ve don’t that previously for my other projects, so I wanted to switch it up, one thing I haven’t used much is a portrait, portraits are a good way of finding a persons emotions and this will help me develop my skills on the different types of portraits there are and how to accomplish them. One of the firs photoshoots that I have in mind is taking pictures of peoples windows, not necessarily going round and taking pictures of people in general but to capture the truth behind each window, everyone will have a window and behind it lays a different life, a different set of emotions that the person that’s living there may feel. there may be different lighting and different style of furniture in the window and this will allow me to spot the different and realise how different everyone is, this is due to cultural and ethnical backgrounds, the way you were brought up and how it has shaped you as a person.
When looking at the theme of union, we had to decide what type of union we would pick and along that we had to pick an art movement, I decided to have a look at Surrealism and Dadaism. I really believe that those art movement can help me create some good set of photos. I really like the idea of surrealism as it provides a dream like feeling, something that isn’t real, its fake and unrealistic. This can be compared to how society is shaped now, there are some unrealistic rules that people need to follow and it can effect each person in a different way. Dadaism is slightly more difficult to link to union, though Dadaism was seen to record the news and protest for things, its almost like a poster full of painting/pictures to inform the world about something. I could take pictures to inform people about the meaning of sonder and how it can shape a persons mind set. I will be looking at different artists that inspire me, for example I will be looking at Angus Mcbean who is a surrealist artist. I also will look at Hannah Höch who is a Dadaist artists and finally I would like to try and recreate some of Andy Warhol’s work.
Here is an example of the window photograph I would want to try and recreate. I really like this concept as if shows the different lives each person has. Though it could be a bit more difficulty to achieve this photoshoot as it could be seen as invading a persons privacy and it would be a bit unusual to go round and take pictures of peoples windows. So to make this less sketchy I could go to some of my friends houses and get them to pose in front of their window, therefore I will still get the photos I want and i will be doing it in a respectful way.
overall, my main goal is to capture some photos to try and get a perspective on how everyone’s life is different and how each person can make an influence in the world. The word union, makes me think of a community or a group of people, some could say that the world is a union and we all come together to form a society. Each person has a purpose and each person has a goal. A lot of people could suggest that the world is quite selfish and we don’t realise that the people around us have a strong impact on us. I want to be able to capture photos that really show peoples expressions and how a persons mood can change over time, I also want to show that there is a group of people, whether is the same person edited or multiple different people, just to show how the world is and how everyone in this world has a purpose.