Here is the draft of my personal statement, this is to be used as an introduction to my work and Is for my end of year exhibition. It is a statement created for the joint BA & Fd 'Yellow Banana' website.
I suppose looking at the statement you would question a few statements.
Firstly, I am very proud of my Lancastrian heritage, living in town just outside Manchester everyone presumes you are a Mancunian, in fact if you ask many of my friends they will say they are indeed from Manchester or Greater Manchester. I on the other hand am very proud of my Lancastrian routes, I love the Lancashire dialect and poetry.
On Th' Hills
by John Trafford Clegg (1857 - 1895)
Come onto th’ windy moors wi’ me,
An’ let th’ world slur away;
An’ yo’ll ne’er want or need to dee
Afore yo’re owd and grey.
I love social documentary without people within the frame. There is a lot can be said within documentary without the need for people. The empty bus stop images I took originally, say so much about the area and general upkeep within the districts of Oldham. My landscape pictures of boundary lines and borders on the Pennines, also does not need people to show what we are doing to our earth, as a destructive force. I find the impact people make as a whole far more compelling photographically than to photograph the people themselves.
I have enjoyed every genre of photography so far, but I have realised as of late there was one part of photography I was missing and that is film photography. These two units of my degree have brought me together with a film camera, and I feel it is were my photography will lie in the future. I will still use a digital camera, but I will continue on the pennines with film, it just suits the terrain, mood, isolation and feeling of the Moors.
Finally, i do like to ensure my photography is sincere, I hope it tells a story the viewer can come away from and think about what we are doing as a race, even if its only for a minute, but hopefully for a lifetime.
I suppose looking at the statement you would question a few statements.
Firstly, I am very proud of my Lancastrian heritage, living in town just outside Manchester everyone presumes you are a Mancunian, in fact if you ask many of my friends they will say they are indeed from Manchester or Greater Manchester. I on the other hand am very proud of my Lancastrian routes, I love the Lancashire dialect and poetry.
On Th' Hills
by John Trafford Clegg (1857 - 1895)
Come onto th’ windy moors wi’ me,
An’ let th’ world slur away;
An’ yo’ll ne’er want or need to dee
Afore yo’re owd and grey.
I love social documentary without people within the frame. There is a lot can be said within documentary without the need for people. The empty bus stop images I took originally, say so much about the area and general upkeep within the districts of Oldham. My landscape pictures of boundary lines and borders on the Pennines, also does not need people to show what we are doing to our earth, as a destructive force. I find the impact people make as a whole far more compelling photographically than to photograph the people themselves.
I have enjoyed every genre of photography so far, but I have realised as of late there was one part of photography I was missing and that is film photography. These two units of my degree have brought me together with a film camera, and I feel it is were my photography will lie in the future. I will still use a digital camera, but I will continue on the pennines with film, it just suits the terrain, mood, isolation and feeling of the Moors.
Finally, i do like to ensure my photography is sincere, I hope it tells a story the viewer can come away from and think about what we are doing as a race, even if its only for a minute, but hopefully for a lifetime.
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