Having read through the course notes I thought I would start working on Assignment One as I progressed through part one.
In EYV I tended to go for socio political subjects as it is something I have an interest in and feel that this has the opportunity to project in to my images.
As assignment one was ‘Two Sides to the Story’ I thought I would continue from assignment five of EYV where I attempted to capture ‘two sides of a debate’. The debate being nationalisation. The finished set was probably a bit vague and did not convey my intentions expressed in my essay. So although not entirely successful I liked the idea and thought I would try out some more left/right ideas by using the colours red and blue.
I tried to create red images that were pleasant and comforting. I wanted to contrast these with blue images that were unpleasant and uncomfortable.
Having taken them a couple of weeks ago I am now returning to the idea having worked through the photojournalism course notes. My conclusion is that these images are too abstract and I feel I need to include people in the images.
As there is another election I am now considering extending my EU referendum assignment and covering the General Election as a form of ‘aftermath’ photography. My thoughts are now to get images of people at polling stations or outside party offices where there are blue and red hints of colour and backgrounds.
I have taken the day off of work to spend the day being a photojournalist. If successful I will submit two sets – one red, one blue – for my assignment submission.
Martyn Rainbird 