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OngoingLive Brief
September 30th 2019 - AD6303 Negotiated Practice
The Brief
Portfolio (50%) -
"As you refine your practice through a carefully considered process of edit and selection you will build a body of work in the form of a conventional portfolio of final images of approximately fifteen to twenty photographs (normally A4 (10x8 inches) or A3 (16x20 inches). This selection ultimately reflects the aims of your proposal and practice as it has developed across the year. The work which is made specifically for exhibition and publication, projection, etc. is drawn from this selection and could take the form of either framed or mounted or similarly displayed photographs, photobooks, video, mixed-media, site-specific or installation artwork. In some cases, the Portfolio as an artifact may take on a greater significance than an exhibition or wall-based submission whereby a bespoke or alternative approach to a Folio submission, is a more appropriate form of presenting the work".
Interim Exhibition (20%)-
"Following each phase and shoot for your project you will review and reflect upon your practice from week to week. In week 20 you will present an Interim Exhibition having selected an appropriate space for this purpose based on your specific needs and requirements. The Interim Exhibition provides you with the opportunity to trial and test out work made up to this point. The ongoing rehearsal of work-in-situ, which involves mixed media, site-specific or installation-based approaches is also important before the Interim. Otherwise, a work-flow built around digital and physical editing, contact printing and proof printing photographs is essential for everyone. Your Interim Exhibition will be presented to as high a standard as possible; at the same time, the assessment and feedback acknowledge the emergent nature of your project as it is very much still in development as work-in-progress. Following the holiday you will receive a grade for the Interim Exhibition as well as feedback, which looks forward in a constructive but critical way to help guide your project during the next phase of its development. The Interim Exhibition at this point provides you and us with a benchmark from which your work progresses towards the final year exhibition".
My plan to fulfil this open brief, set in my last year of university, is to experiment with all kinds of film, techniques, colour and print methods. The first term will form the basis of my Interim Exhibition on December 12th. The theme is to build on the archive of family images, expand my knowledge of film practices, create images that evoke a sense of nostalgia and hopefully marry together the old with the new and see if people can tell the difference.
Final Images for the Interim Exhibition - December 2019
Working Images for the Degree Show Exhibition - June 2020
As the project progressed and moved forward following the interim exhibition, I began looking further into experimentation with print methods and decided, before the outbreak of Covid-19, that the majority of my final images for the degree show would be hand made using these new methods. The outcome of the interim exhibition was that very few people could tell the new prints from the old and so I decided that the degree show exhibition would be made entirely of new prints created to look as if they had been taken decades ago. The aim of the project was to now prove the capabilities of the old chemical methods and possibilities of film photography and prove their relevance even today in the digital era. The exhibition was due to go up on May 28th 2020, but this deadline had been extended due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will now probably be virtual rather than physical. This also means that the images are still in the editing stage since they all now need to be converted or created some other way. Below are the working images in the lead up to May 28th.
While the previous gallery contains images of both my physical 35mm and 1200mm film scans, with some negatives having been cross-processed, the following gallery contains what would have been my only digital prints in the physical exhibition.
Final Images for the Degree Show Exhibition - June 12th 2020
