The personal project – Proposal
It is personal project. It began a year ago, I was in lockdown in England and not allowed to travel to my then “second home” in Wales. During this time, I observed many discussions on social media about visitors to our “second” town, as well as Welsh national media highlighting lockdown infringements. The coverage was mostly one-sided and uncomfortable to read. As the year progressed and I travelled to my second home, I was able to gauge the real breadth of feeling from local residents and visitors; though not “local” I am well established in the community here and talk to people on both sides of the divide.
The second part of this year I have been resident here in what is now my only home. I continued researching, capturing media articles and comments, knowing I would probably use the material for assignment 5. I have added to this note on conversations had, overheard and related. Now I need to develop a visual photographic response to this personal, and socio-political study. I would like to explore layers of truth, something that has interested me increasingly as I have progressed through the documentary course. Though my research has been during the coronavirus year 2020-2021, I don’t intend the work to focus on this; the research highlights local/societal/nationalist issues that exist normally, such as the economy, resources, housing, tourism, and hospitality businesses.
Working title: Tensions arising from visitors.
Theme: Different truths.
Methodology: Photograph local contentious subjects such as, caravan parks, holiday houses, shops, roads, footpaths. Present images with short text/captions from research.
Audience: Myself. I will create it for myself, depending on the outcome I might release to the community later as a healing tool; currently it would inflame the situation locally.
Further research: Photographers, and bodies of work to support my presentation approach, through websites, books, talks, and online interviews. I may also look at my archive of images, to compliment those that I shoot over the next month.
Approach: Probably a slideshow sharing images with overlaying text contradictory to each photograph, and possibly a third layer (perhaps audio) communicating another perspective on issues.
Photography 2: Documentary 