This weeks assignment for the Garage Studios creative photography course. was to document a journey you take regularly. I attempted this several times last week and it just wasn’t happening. Today my head was in the right place.
Originally this started out as a concept of providing the visual references I use every day to get myself to and from work. What I discovered for myself however was something very different.
As I began taking the first few images I realised that the things I use for coordinates hold a more valuable point of reference for me. They are symbols of the decay I can see around me.
The mass consumerism we have grown to accept as cultural expectation, employment/unemployment, success and failure. It is all there for us to interpret but we are numbed to it’s overbearing appearance.
This is the first time I have ever really photographed something that is not based around a particular person or a structure. I have found it incredibly useful, especially the constraint of a fixed focal length which has forced me to move around and frame something more, trying to understand what it is I am putting into the shot and what I am trying to take out.
I look forward to seeing what everyone else comes up with in the Flickr Group pool and our next session on Thursday.
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