Its been a little while since I updated the blog so I thought I better write down what I've been up to for the last few weeks. A lot of my time has been taken up with preparing for the exhibition which opens this Friday but heres what I've been doing in between...
So I finished editing my final images for the exhibition. There are 22 images in total which I had planned to make into a small photo book however that didn't work out. I spent hours scouring the internet for reliable places to print my book but nowhere could produce an A5 portrait size book for a reasonable price. As I have planned to sell a few books I really needed to be able to print them quite cheap but it turns out thats not really achievable unless you order the books in bulk. I didn't end up ordering any photo books however it is something I will look into in the future.
Out of the initial 22 images I edited for the exhibition 6 are going up on the wall. Between my tutor and I we chose the images we felt would work best together and show diversity. Below is one of the images I will be showing in the exhibition.
After choosing my final 6 I had to print them, mount them to foam board, and then trim that down to size. It was a bit of a nightmare if I'm honest but I did it in the end and I don't think they look too horrendous. Once my work was finished I had to put it up in the exhibition space. I was given a rather small area to hang my work which I wasn't particularly happy with but I didn't have much choice. Once I had accepted my fate I arranged my images on the floor until I was happy with them and hung them up using velcro double sided tape.
As well as worrying like mad about the exhibition I got around to doing another shoot. Well I tried to do another shoot at least. I had planned to travel in Birmingham City Centre to do a shoot on my 120 Lubitel camera. After doing research on photographers such as Garry Winogrand and William Klein, I was inspired to shoot a roll of black and white film. I had arrived in town, loaded my film, and was prepared to shoot. It was not until I pushed the shutter release that I realised it was not working. Film cameras are really not my speciality and I could not for the life of me figure out what how to fix my camera that day so I have postponed that shoot until I can get it working again.
Currently I am in the process of planning another shoot which I hope will take place in town next week. As I've been using the same camera for most of the shoots I wanted to try something new with my lasts few shoots. I'm thinking of using my Instax mini camera for this shoot and getting the women I photograph to interact with their image by drawing on it. I'm still putting ideas together right now and I've been pinning on a new Pinterest board which you can see below.
Until next week
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