Jill Cole came to visit us in the college to discuss our work on the national forest brief 'Photo Canopy'. Its the longest brief we have ever had to work on and seems that many of us have forgotten to work on this project.
Personally my project had to change from my original idea. I experimented for a while with the concept of maps and layered images printed on acetate. Mid way into the project I received confirmation from the FA to work on the documentation of St. George's Park. The area i will be photographing will be within the National Forest so my idea is to combine the 2 projects.
In Jill's lecture she expressed her difficulties with the project, the main one being that she lives 150 miles outside of the National Forest. However Jill researches deeply into her subject and had gathered material from annual reports, maps, leaflets and walking guides.
She questioned what a forest is? what it is used for? why the forest is in the location it is. She became focused on the fact that the forest is continually changing everyday.
There were a set of about 10 final images that Jill shared with us that were inspired by the maps she had been continuously referring too thoughtout her time in the forest. Jill described how the layers of the forest played a part in her inspiration, how they land will be changed, how the seasons change etc.
The final images consisted of a number of photographs layered upon each other to reveal textures, lines and shapes.
I'm interested to see how she will edit down the final images for selection of the exhibition and how they will be displayed.
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