Thursday, October 13, 2016

Week 5: Photo Essays

We started working our final photo essays this week. A photo essay is basically a collection of images based around a theme that might have a message or a story behind it.

Firstly we started off by cutting out different images from newspapers and then we put them together to send a message or to tell a story. My group's collage looked like this:


And the story behind it goes like this...

One day there was a boy who was reading the newspaper and found about many things- people crying in despair because their family member died, homes being ruined to the point where no one could reside in it anymore, people fighting for their freedom, people suffering...that was when the boy realized that the world wasn't perfect and happy, it was brutal and cruel.

I think we chose great images that use many different composition rules like the rule of thirds. 

These are some other collages from other groups~




We then looked at a few example photo essays online and created a mind map filled with ideas of photo essays we could do. 

Links to the photo essays we took inspiration from:

Our final mindmap looked like this:


From this mindmap, I wanted to do my photo essay on doors but this is something I heard someone was doing so I decided to change my topic to windows or bikes. I want to take pictures of windows in the village that is near where I live because even from observing far away, the variety of houses are quite vast so I think there will be many different types of windows for me to take pictures of. I am planning to take my photos on one of the weekends.

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