During this past ten weeks, I have been reflecting a lot on how I approach my work and the value I find from it, why I choose photography and what I add to the ever-growing visual world. More so than recently, I have come to feel more comfortable and more confident at stepping away from my own expectations I have for myself, as I find that they are not really mine. They are expectations of others.
Living in a particular area, deciding to produce work of a specific type of land and culture, people expect there to be a certain type of images to be produced.
I have been able to explore those expectations/moulds and taking cues from what does inspire me. It is not a terrible starting point, and I'm finding ways to push beyond them and what has already been created to tell the story in my own voice.
Part of my explorations in this module has been my editing style. I feel that it's also become a little more streamlined and cohesive, which in turn has helped with the way I approach making my images.
Below is a set of images I made from spending the afternoon in the greenhouse getting to know the light and objects that interested me. Some were more successful than others, but I enjoyed being able to take the time figuring out what I liked and what worked and did not. It was also nice to slow down and think about what I wanted a collection of objects to reflect and how they were to fit with other images made in a less controlled environment, as I like the idea of having a mix of images that are a broader vision of the land along with tools and other objects that we use and find while sculpting the land to suite our needs.
