After my analogue photography workshop with Megan Wellington, I've been thinking more about moving image- we were able to edit a Super 8 film reel and the aesthetic was something that has increasingly interested me. I would relate these ideas with my own work by using home videos of myself, again with the reference of the readymade and the links to memory (more specifically of my childhood, this again creates a cohesion and unity of work).
I have since been thinking about this further, and in terms of the way I am thinking about the overall look of my installation, I don't think a television would quite fit into it. Therefore... dun dun duuun! I've been thinking a lot about sound!
It's not something I have ever considered before, I have never done my own sound piece, and in honesty I've never hugely looked into sound artists or given much heed towards the discipline.
My idea at this stage is to still use the home videos of little me, but rather than have my audience seeing it, they would be hearing it instead. I feel that this relates back to Freud's concept of the uncanny; something that is familiar but also incredibly alien to us. I would use the sound but hidden within the installation- an unknown source.
hearing but not seeing, hearing but not believing? ...Interesting.
I thought I'd write up about the workshop I took part in a few weeks ago just as an extra note.
I was invited to take part in an Analogue Photography workshop led by Megan Wellington as part of her PGCE course. I was slightly nervous simply due to having never academically studied Photography, it's always been more of a hobbie, an interest of mine but never being properly shown how to take a photo. Self taught, if you like.
We were asked about pros and cons of both Analogue and Digital Photography at the start of the session- the obvious and typical points were made, for example: you can take numerous attempts in digital, but with analogue the moment capture is precious; you can't waste frames (film is now *expletive* expensive!).
To my surprise, we were given one of Megan's (many) cameras to explore and play around with, plus a whole roll of film between 2- so 11/12 frames each. She gave us time to get to grips with the depth of field, aperture and light balance of the cameras, testing out variations in each frame to see on development if we could see the differences.
It was something that interested me far more than I imagined; having always used Digital Photography, I had never really seen the benefits with film. Since the workshop however, I have invested in my own Canon AE-1 35mm SLR Film Camera!
Below are a couple of the photographs I took and some annotation. Although they both slightly bled, I love the aesthetic.
