Final

"The big ol' family apple tree.

as a child i thought i could follow your arms branching out towards heaven.

As an adult, I'm just grateful that those same arms now shade my mobile screen.

My outgoing messages, they follow now."

*because i wrote too big, i had to change what i had originally planned to write on the photograph.

I changed the writing to...

"The big ol' family apple tree.

As a child i thought i could follow your arms branching out towards heaven.

I'm just grateful that they shade my mobile screen now."

*This is a picture of the big apple tree in my backyard. Its the biggest tree in our yard and was therefore perfect for climbing. At family gatherings, my cousins and i would climb this, our own natural jungle gym. It always seemed huge, with its branches seeming to stretch out everywhere. 

Now that I'm an adult, I've noticed that i haven't climbed the apple tree in a long time. I don't think I've climbed it since i was small. I guess as technology became more advanced, i wanted to follow the signals branching out to the heavens instead. 

Despite the apple tree being empty of children, it still stands huge, with its branches stretching towards heaven. It still acts as a trigger for fond memories of my childhood. 

And funny enough, i still find myself under the big ol' family apple tree, lying under the shade of its arms instead of climbing and lying on top. 

Trees are symbols for strength, for family, for growth and for me thats exactly what this apple tree represents. 

Final Proposal: Identity

811.514 SHARED CREATIVE HISTORIES   Proposal information

Share Creative Histories Creative Group Outcome 

Please note this is a ‘living’ document that may evolve, develop and be refined throughout the next few weeks.  As the development of your work occurs you can add or edit as you go along. You do though need to stick with your original point of departure. This is handed in and assessed on Mon Oct 19^th as part of your proposal and pitch session. With additions/developments your group hands this in again at the end of the course as reference for assessing your outcome. 

Name of your group: Selfhood

List members of your group (full names):

Katie Dzaferic

Courtney

Carol Seu

Barbara Neemia

Indicate your point of departure – tick one

• Projects the future. 
• Reverses something in some way.
• Responds to a well known existing creative outcome. ✓

• Your own creative framework/brief.  Give details here

Respond to a well known existing creative outcome by showing it through a series of photographs.

Describe in two or three sentences your conceptual angle or ‘take’ on this topic

Create a series of photographs that display Identity of our collaborative group. We will photograph events, symbols or places that have meaning to each of us and will show a glimpse of what makes us who we are. With the photographs we will think of composition, lighting, and focal points when taking the pictures.

The intention of our work is to

Show that despite our differences and what makes us who we are, our interest in art, specifically photography, unites us and makes us the same. We've all been brought up differently, we all have different cultures, different ages even and yet our interest in photography is what links us.

Plan

We plan to make (say what you envisage your end product will be)

To be able to discuss and work together as a team so that we are able to make a series of photographs that will show part of our life, whether it be family, sports, church etc. We will meet together and research different photographers that interest us and then try to emulate their style. We will also research photographers that use text as a narrative. We will also help each other filter through photos we have taken and edit the final photo that we have taken. We plan to make one photo each. A3 size, the shape of a polaroid picture. We envision our end product to be a series of 4 A3 photos with written text that depict a part of our identity.

Research resources

Make a list (that you will add to) of relevant books, articles, performances, web pages or any other things that are relevant to your ideas. 

Lighting Compositon Test Strips for printing Colour Photographers Family History Religion Camera techniques

Technical Requirements/budget

(list any equipment/facilities, workshops, skills you need to swap or expand on to achieve this)

Test srips Printing Camera equipment

Group dynamic/roles

In this collaborative project, outline each person’s role in the team or draw a diagram that describes the shape of your collborative group and how it will function to achieve your goal. 

Welcome to my hood…my selfhood. A series of photographs that show/inspire each 4 of us to be/make who we are as a person.  Please indicate what actions, activities or functions you performed with your group to make your end of term creative project a success: Barbara: Photographer Courtney: Editer Katie: Composition of photos Carol: Presentation

TIMELINE: Create some mileposts for yourself, taking into account the sessions when we have class and how you will use your self directed time/set up meetings etc. Write in here key mileposts to achive your goal.

Week 3 Oct 12	BRIEFING/PRESENTATION CREATIVE CHALLENGE Open Source Technologies session	Oct 14	PROPOSAL AND PITCH DEVELOPMENT – assessment recap – discussion about what needs to be done. Defining the project – equipment resources  space – project planning
Week 4 Oct 19	PROPOSAL/PITCH DUE Presentation of pitch by each group	Oct 21	GROUP WORK First supervisor meetings for each group
Week 5 Oct 26	Labour Day	Oct 29	GROUP WORK Second supervisor meetings for each group
Week 6 Nov 2	GROUP WORK Third supervisor meetings for each group	Nov 5	GROUP WORK Fourth supervisor meetings for each group
Week 7 Nov 9	Project Presentation	Nov 11	Project Presentation
Week 8 Nov 16	Documentation workshop and peer assessment	Nov 18	Hand in all documentation work books/ blogs notes Shared lunch

Students signatures: Date:6 November 2015

Barbara Neemia

Katie Dzaferic

Courtney 

Carol Seu

Research Photographers that use text

I like the handwritten description of the photo more than the typed out style. Having it handwritten gives a more personal feel; feels more connected with the photograph and the text being written. 
I also like how theres not a whole story written, but just a snippet of what the photo is about that gives the viewer a glimpse of the reality the photo and allows the viewer and their imagination to make up the rest of the photos story. 

Tracey Moffat

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/moffatt-charm-alone-1965-p78102

Jim Goldberg

http://www.jimgoldberg.com

http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/jim-goldberg-rich-and-poor-23/

Duane Michals

http://projects.newyorker.com/portfolio/michals-empty-ny/#16

Sophie Calle

https://mkaban.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/assignment-4-sophie-calle/

Photos and Critiques

We had a critiquing session with our groups and collab supervisor Taarati. Having the critiques was good because it allowed us to know what the 'viewer' actually thought of the work and if our intentions were being known without us having to explain what the work was about.

The feed back that we got from the critique, were that the images were good and had a focal point (2 out of 3 of them did, although these were just draft photos). Although the photos were good, the link between the photos was not obvious. Adding text was suggested to help the viewer understand what the series of works were about and how they connect to one another. 
It was very helpful getting critiqued, because we know now to link the photos to give the viewer a narrative of what the works are about. 

Need to now research artist that use text in there photographs.

Research: Ethics around Homeless

An Auckland photographer has been on the picket lines shooting portraits of striking Ports of Auckland workers in an attempt to "put a face to the struggle".

Fiona Jack has started plastering the city with posters of some of the 70 portraits she captured to push the message that the dispute is not about "the union versus the company, it's about the hundreds of lives involved".

The Maritime Union and the Ports of Auckland have been locked in a fourth-month industrial dispute after management wanted permanent staff to become casual workers.

It offered a 10 per cent pay increase in return but staff wanted a smaller pay rise in exchange for permanent hours.

The groups are now battling it out in the Employment Court.

"I want to honour the strength of their community and their struggle," said Jack.

"I want people to see that they are not thugs, they are lovely, regular people with families and I want to help the public understand they are individuals.

"I don't know any of the port workers, well I didn't when I first started photographing them. But I have a strong legacy in unions and worry about the precedent set by firing [almost] 300 workers in the middle of negotiations and what impact that will have on other workers in New Zealand."

The Avondale resident's posters feature only the faces of the striking workers. Jack didn't add slogans because she didn't want to create "judgement".

"While I was putting up the posters, people would automatically know that they were port workers. I was a bit surprised that people would immediately identify them as port workers," she said.

Last week the port agreed to halt plans to make almost 300 workers redundant and to hire other workers to do their jobs until the matter could be heard by the Employment Court next week.

Port protests on Tamaki Dr have been subject to claims of intimidation and bullying.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/6606854/Faces-of-the-port-strike


After talking with Tarati again we went over the ethics of photographing something that we haven't experienced ourselves.
It would be pretty hypocritical to take photographs depicting homelessness without getting involved and making an actual difference in the homeless community. You can't really speak on behalf of someone if you don't really know what they're going through.
getting involved.
giving a voice to the people
not reenacting or imitating
straight from the source
So once again we've come up with a change of plan again.

NEW PLAN. lol

Photographing OUR OWN LIVES.
-Identity
-Individualism
-Something or someplace, that connects to us, that shows what our beliefs are, or a glimpse of our lives or history or story.

Proposal will have to change again..

Research: Homeless

Judy Darragh

http://eyecontactsite.com/2013/11/ciphers-of-the-homeless
http://tworooms.co.nz/exhibition/international-beggar/

Darragh did a series of photographs of homeless signs that she had bought off homeless people. 
She was involved with the homeless community, by providing income for those that she bought the signs off. 

What Next Revised.

Changes in the group- Anne Marie left the group, who had originally come up with the idea of Scandal. The group is now just visual artist- Barbara, Katie, Courtney, Carol.

Also after talking to Tarati about focusing on one type of scandal and really pin pointing what angle we will be coming from in regards to the scandal that we choose to focus on and photograph.

We chose to do homelessness as a focus of our photograph series.

Ideas for Homeless photographs
-homeless signs
-pics of family and friends holding homeless signs (you would react differently if you knew who held the sign, you would walk by and act like they were invisible if it was a family member holding the sign. Homeless people are people too.)
-Photograph 'home sweet home' sign at bus stops or outside of shops.

Making the invisible visible.

meetings
week 4 mon- ne ed pictures ready to print, wednesday up around school with response sheet
week 5  mon- make posters, post up around school