Second shoot

My second shoot presented a number of challenges as it happened abroad, meaning I had to be prepared well in advance and would not be able to easily access my tools if the camera box for the participant broke.

The shoot went well and the participant made a number of pinhole images, though only 4 developed into a usable print.

The participant’s pinhole direct paper print images:

Contact sheet:

(edit to come after more images have been created by the participant)

I made more medium format images than the previous shoot, I think mainly because I was slightly worried about over or under exposing many of them. The edit below is based on which images I feel both go well as a set and exude the emotion of the home.

My medium format direct paper print images:

Contact sheet:

Edit:

As with the previous house, there are around ten images so far that I have edited together as a set. Though I said before I worried that was too many in total, I also feel like a lot fewer than ten would make it harder for the character of the home to come across.

I have continued to try to photograph similar things in each home (the front door, the kitchen, a sofa or bed, some plants) and am starting to get sense that there will be two ways to edit together the exhibition – as separate homes or as loose typologies. We’ll see how that develops.

The participant was keen to make some images outside the home, and this encouraged me to do the same. However, I feel the photographs I made inside the home are far more successful than the exterior shots. The exterior ones do not seem to fit as well in the series and hold less emotional weight. I will remember this for future shoots, and continue to concentrate on interiors.