{"id":310,"date":"2018-12-31T12:41:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/?page_id=310"},"modified":"2018-12-31T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:16:13","slug":"assignment-1-two-sides-to-the-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/can-blog\/assignment-1-two-sides-to-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 1 – Two Sides to the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Create at least two sets of photographs telling different versions of the same story. The\u00a0aim of the assignment is to help you explore the convincing nature of documentary,\u00a0even though what the viewer thinks they see may not in fact be true. Try to make both\u00a0sets equally convincing so that it\u2019s impossible to tell which version of the images is \u2018true\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Real Corners Reconstructed<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I have understood this brief to be about how I as a photographer consider my work, the approach I take and how I convey that to the viewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Real Corners Reconstructed is an exercise in what is real and what is not.\u00a0 Focusing on mundane street corners that people pass everyday, I have taken a series of images in and around Littlehampton in West Sussex. I have then used these images to create a second set of composite images, ‘reconstructing’ the corners in order to test whether they are distinguishable from the real ones.\u00a0 They are presented on double sided postcards without title or comment so that the viewer can make up their own mind as to the validity of each image and to which set it belongs. Here on the blog, they are shown randomly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planning and Research<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In researching for this assignment, I was struck by the fact that\u00a0Dorothea Lange<\/a>\u00a0was given a ‘list’ of scenes to capture and wondered about the ‘truth’ of the images that were published.\u00a0 Her photo\u00a0 \u2018Migrant Mother\u2019 is acclaimed more for it’s aesthetic appeal than the story it told.\u00a0 Today’s viewers are bombarded by imagery, do they even notice it’s ‘fake’?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea for the street corners was inspired by Chris Dorley-Brown<\/a>‘s ‘Corners’ series. I like the idea of not knowing what’s around the corner and it reminded me of an image by Guy Bourdin<\/a> which I came across during the Expressing Your Vision course. I was also intrigued by Sarah Pickering’s Public Order<\/a> series, where nothing is quite what it seems at first viewing.\u00a0 This led me to the concept of reconstructing real street corners to create new views\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n