This mind map explores the exam heading of 'connected images'; the theme of 'connected images' correlates to me that the series must consist of images which all link together. Within my mind map I explored two photographers called Partick Winfield, who creates grid style images of his work, and the photographer Gordon Parks who focused on black rights in America. I dislike Patrick Winfield's work as I believe the image as a whole appears untidy and disorganised, whereas I like my images to be organised. Gordon Parks' images are extremely emotive as they centre on inequality in America, surrounding race. Feminism, british culture and town life are all headings which I explored in the mind map which I could later use as inspiration for my shoots. If I chose to do the feminism theme then this would be influenced through photographers such as Hannah Wilke and Cindy Sherman, as they're feminist images are interesting- I would focus on how woman are treated different in society and how this is unequal to men. The heading 'town life' is another idea which I was thinking of exploring, this would involve me going into my local town centre of 'Waltham Abbey' and photographing life in my local town, whilst also traveling to various other close towns- I believe this idea may be slightly tedious and it would also involve a lot of travel, therefore I don't think I will follow up this idea. The last idea I came up with was 'British culture', I like the idea of this theme as it would allow me to explore a wide variety of different environments, and people within Britain. Fish and chips, tea, the queen, and Yorkshire puddings are all stereotypical 'British' items, I would explore these in my project as well as also investigating other aspects of British life, including the country side, and British city life; some of my images would also be interesting if made slightly surreal and humorous, for example editing an image of the Queen smoking.
I then decided to create another mind-map as next lesson, after I had a few days to think about my project, I decided that I wanted to focus more on thought-provoking images, surrounding 'differences' between people in particular. My five shoot ideas that I currently have fit together to a certain extent, as my first three shoots will be focusing on work and differences in society surrounding economical issues. I decided to photograph a female in a stereotypical jobs (a carer), and a male in a stereotypical job (mechanic) in order to challenge gender stereotypes within the workplace; moreover, by contrasting this with another individual who doesn't work but would have a more expensive house than the two individuals who do work, this would challenge inequality in life- these first three shoots all link under the term 'economical inequality.' My shoot number four would be challenging societies ideas of elderly individuals, as in this shoot I would want to explore elderly people displaying typical teen behaviour, whilst contrasting this with the same elderly lady conducting usual everyday activities. My shoot four and five link as they challenge societies perceptions of people, despite my shoot four being on older individuals whereas my shoot five would be of people aged 10-18 they do link in some way. My shoot five would aim to again challenge gender stereotypes within our modern society, as by comparing girls doing typically 'boy' sports, and then doing typically 'girl' sports this will provoke thoughts in the viewer's mind; likewise if I also contrasted boys in this similar way. I realise that these initial shoots won't link as much as I would like, however by exploring these routes I would then hope to focus my ideas onto one main theme.
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