STUDENT LED Hangout 9.4.20

This was my first documentary hangout. I have been used to joining landscape hangouts once a month but it took me until now to cross over to the documentary group; in fact several of the members like myself were still active on the landscape hangout and so we have shared our early thoughts about documentary there.

There were six of us on the hangout tonight and we began by discussing how were are managing our photography during our lock downs; it was bizarre, but comforting, that with one OCA member in Canada and one in Australia as well as us in the UK we are all experiencing the same situation.

We also discussed looking ahead to level 3 with one student who has just finished documentary.

I shared my initial series “Staying safe at home”. My peers generally gave positive feedback on my images.

I asked them the following questions:

• Which of the eleven photographs should I drop t make the series of ten as the brief required?
• Which of the two sink/cleaning fluid images should I chose, the one with the straight window sill or the diagonal perspective?
• Is it okay to have mixture of closed and open windows?
• Is the narrative clear with the images posted between the glove on the front door and the empty shopping bag at the front door?

The consensus that I was given was that I should remove the paracetamols at a distance on a coffee table and the laptop which is a distance from the window.

The group thought that it is okay to mix the open and closed windows.

All agreed that my narrative is clear.

I shared that I think that some of the images are rather obvious and lack the ambiguity that I have come to like; however after one false start prior to lock down on this assignment, (because of being confined to my house due to Covid19) and having effectively lost about a month’s work, I am now keen to finish assignment 1 and move on. The group didn’t seem to share my concerns and encouraged me to proceed.

This virtual conversation and work sharing has helped me in my editing process to change my series of images slightly.

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