selfie assignment - in progress

my second college assignment is one based around selfies and self-portraiture. the aim of this assignment is to help us as photography students to see the impact selfies have in today's world and compare them to self portraits. the initial selfie is taking on a phone. the second part of the assignment involves making an analogue self-portrait using 35mm film and the final part is a portrait of ourselves made by an assigned partner, also shot on 35mm film. on completion, the three images will be hanging in the corridor, side by side. this will help not only us, but also people who view these images, to see the difference between the different ways of making self images.

i am a third, (almost two thirds) of the way through. the selfie image i chose was installed in the college corridor about two weeks ago.

my final selfie image

shooting on 35mm film means working in the darkroom and when i found out we were going back to the very basics of photography for our first image making assignment, i was very happy and excited to say the least. printing my own photographs in the darkroom is one of my favourite things to do. i find it relaxing and very peaceful. yesterday was my first day back in the darkroom since leaving college in England(nearly 5 months ago!!). i was a little nervous but it went quite well, and i am really pleased with some of the images on my contact sheet. i'm in the darkroom again on monday to finalize and make some changes to prints i made yesterday before my formative tutorial for this assignment on tuesday. (i have way too much to do before then and i am not looking forward to my life for the next two days.)

my contact sheet and a print from yesterday (sorry for the really bad quality)

i am off to England next weekend for a break and to revisit everything in, what i can now call, my 'old life', i guess. i am super excited to see some people there and am really looking forward to the trip. i will try update the progress of this assignment soon again. :)

shoot through it x

Vox Pop

As part of an assignment for my digital class in college, we were asked to go to a city center location to produce a vox pop. A vox pop involves going to a busy location with a topical, open-ended question in mind, stopping random people on the street, taking their picture and asking them this question. I think this was probably the most nervous photography related thing I have ever done.

The location was Grafton Street and my question was: ''How do you feel about the Chirstmas lights and decorations being up on the streets and in shops already?''

Luckily, people were nice when I finally built up the courage to go and do it. The images and answers to the question are as follows:

"I think it’s nice but some places go too extreme too early"

 "I think Christmas should be celebrated as long as possible"

"Too early. Christmas traditionally began on the 8th of December always and that’s the way it should be still"

 "It’s too early. This makes Chirstmas really long"

"It’s far too early. Halloween just ended, far too soon"

shoot through it x