20 Photographs

An image can be considered a representation, a time related, a contract between viewer and maker, a story, a point of view, a truth, a language and so much more. In my first Introduction to animation lecture we began to look at the way we perceive image and how we tell stories through our visual languages. I discovered that the relationship between what we see and what we know is never entirely settles, as perceptions are always changing and no two people see the exact same thing. We are simply looking at the relationship between ourselves and the image. Our first task was to ’20 photographs of ordinary objects that do not belong to you in or around you house and street’. We were then to catalogue them and tell a story. These were my images:

In our second lesson, we used padlet to move the images around to tell different stories and to create different ways of seeing. I discovered that the photographs I spontaneously took were much more powerful than the ones I put thought into. I feel as though the fact I didn’t take all these photos on the same day had a powerful impacts as my mind was in different places each day. Although my photos don’t entirely link, I think there are certain photos which go together well.