'For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness'

These are ways i wish to present my final piece in style of Julian Germain. His work shows a quirky and unique idea, which not many photographers chose to present their work.It shows a sketchbook and diary like look which i want to present my work, it adds a free hand and old fashioned feel to the images which makes the images work. Alongside the images of the persons daily routine i want to photographs things that make that person happy to add into the sketchbook so it really doues feel like a life documentary of someones life. The drained and vintage feel to the images gives a really unique texture in the sketchbook which i would like to achieve. the image sizes seem to be a poloroid camera size.

Brief Final Idea

After my research through 3 final ideas i have decided my most strongest idea was the Documentation of a Daily Routine of an Elderly person and a Younger person. I feel that this is the strongest idea after researching styles i could shoot in i came across two photographers; Julian Germain and Kaylynn Deveney. Julian Germain did a book called 'for every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of Happiness' which focused on an elderly man, Charles Snelling. All of the images are said to be taken over 8 years. The images show a lonely man, and the deteriation of him over the years, as he lives alone, the images give a very sad emotion when you view them. Kaylynn Deveny did a series of images called 'The day to day life of Albert Hastings which is shows simple styled images yet the subject is so strong which makes the images, it has a documentary diary style about the images which is because of the captions underneath the images on what looks like lined paper, as if the images have been stuck in a book, and the captions are wrote in pen which shows a relaxed style to her images. So after my research this is now my final idea of what i plan to do, I will photograph a teenager and an elderly man. with all the images i produce i will make small little diaries for each series of photoshoots. Some images i may put in black and white yet i feel it will be more simple and natural if i keep them in colour with only slight editing.For these images i will be shooting from the persons home to get that real life documentary feel. I am going to present my work in a diary style way in a book.

Concepts

1st Initial Idea - Life In Pictures Documentary
One of my first ideas for this project was quite a personal topic of a Life In Pictures, which i would be focusing on my own home life and documenting it, such as family events and the relationships in my family and also relationships outside of my home life. Focusing on the strong friendships which are in mine and others family and also my own friendships with people. I would document all of this and general routines at home . After looking at different artists who document their own home life as they are close to their families such as Juliette Mills who has photographed her families weddings, funerals and just social events of them together, i have seen that they like to work in black and white as it works well to get the textures an black and white also brings out the emotions from the images, especially the ones from a funeral. If i chose this as my main topic the style would be to make quite simple yet strong images in black and white.

2nd Initial Idea - Documenting The Daily Routine of an Elderly person and a Younger person
My second and I feel most strongest idea has been inspired by two photographers Julian Germain and Kaylynn Deveney. Julian Germain did a book called 'For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of Happiness' which focused on an elderly man called Charles Snelling, all the images were taking over 8 years, as he lives alone at his home. Kaylynn Deveney did a series of images called 'The Day To Day Life of Albert Hastings' which is just simple yet strong images of an elderly man and his daily routines. Which have handwritting underneath the images as a caption, which has a documentary and diary feel about it, it seems very natural which i feel i could do very well, by making them simple images and probably having a style of putting them in Black and white would work well with the older nature of the images.

3rd Initial Idea- Focusing on Architecture and Building work in the city of York, the difference between modern and antique buildings and the contrasts. For the old buildings in york such as the minster and other buildings as i am aiming for a documentary style project i want to research the history of each building and write small simple yet strong captions for each building.

Ideas