Photo Experiments

Experimenting with imagery

I don’t feel comfortable with the video experiments and I am not confident enough to try other installations. I think that I should go back to photography and experiment with different types of methods to express Isoloneliness. To do this, I walked around town and at home, taking photographs of objects that made me think of Isoloneliness.  

Driving away

I visited my parents for a few days to give myself a break from work. I felt happy to be around familiar faces. When it was time to leave, I got that pang feeling in the stomach (the feeling I get when I feel alone). I was in the passenger seat of a car, driving back to Manchester. I looked out the window and saw the long road ahead. I decided to take a few photographs on my camera phone. The images I took were of the road, which was symbolic of the journey away from comfort. The images were blurred (accidental) because of the speed of the car, however, I liked this effect as it looks like my journey was becoming distorted, and not clearly visible.

 I really liked the effect that this has produced. The blurry effect is a good technique of representing an uncertain future. On the first image, the word SLOW on the road is bluured too. This has not been an intention to capture but i feel like it gives a message to the photograph about the journey.

This image is blurred like the rest, but it looks like a badly taken photograph. I have to include this into my experiments as a mistake so that i can learn from it. If i am to further this technique, I need to avoid making images look like this.

Over all I am pleased with this experiment, even though the foundations of it were discovered by accident. The idea of blurring to create a tension of the unknown or unclear vision works well with Isoloneliness. This is because of the uncertainty the feeling brings out in a person suffering from Isoloneliness. I think that I could take this experiment and adapt it to another project, developing the blurring so it looks more professional.