the brief:
Go through your photographic archive and select around ten pictures. Separate them into two piles: one entitled ‘mirrors’ and the other entitled ‘windows’.
- What did you put in each pile and why?
- Did you have any difficulties in categorising them?
You may like to repeat the exercise with some different images and record your responses. It would be interesting to see you place the same image in both camps and review your reasons for doing so.
The ‘window’ images are on the left and the ‘mirror’ images are on theright. I chose images around events or people actually doing something rather than just a portrait.
As I trawled my digital archive, it was more difficult that just going through a box of images and adding them to a file, which I think would have been more spontaneous. I decided to look through my images of events that I have photographed as examples of window photos and through my family event photos for mirror images. Interestingly many of the events I have photographed, included images of members of my family and friends, as many of the events I’ve photographed have been as a result of knowing someone taking part. Except for the St Wilfrid’s images, which is something I do regularly as a charitable contribution. So even those are in some ways a mirror of myself.
Unless you happen to be out with your camera and stumble across an event you weren’t expecting, then it’s possible that you have an interest in the event or place as otherwise you wouldn’t be there.
