Road Works

Road Works

Again this photo steers away from finding beauty in the banal. However I do quite like this as a starting point for a different body of work. Inspired by Chris Dorley Brown I'm attracted to city spaces and those that use them. I feel this photo doesn't really work as a photo focusing on the people as much as it focuses on the buildings. The buildings do show strong lines and I find the age of the buildings quite interesting but it doesn't really scream look at me as their isn't anything hugely interesting about it, it's not a challenging photo and ther isn't any narrative, something I would want to create in a photo like this. It does show strong angles, and I am fond of the visual aesthetics of the photo with all the details and features of the photo, I feel this photo does have some great textures and does show a bleak and run down area, for me this photo isn't worthy of portfolio, however I do really like the ideas that have developed because of it.

One thing I'm interested in is looking at a scene and photographing it from different angles, this would look at one scene and would be photographed from different perspectives but both photos would have one feature that linked them both to the same moment in time. It also wants e to expand into a more forced reality type of photography, either through the use of post production or creating a scene that looks realistic but is actually fake.

Next: I'd like to continue with finding beauty in the banal as I feel there is still a lot to come out of it, and a lot of work needed to make it a successful body of work. However I'm excited to play around with the notion of forced reality and looking at a scene from two perspectives with one feature that reoccurs.