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Like most amateur/hobbyist/enthusiast/non-professional (or whatever label you wish to apply) users of cameras I started out trying to make good individual pictures. I assume this was because it's the way we tend to get presented with good photographs - they're the ones which win prizes, become iconic (in the non-populist sense of the word), and generally inspire you to make photographs.
Over the last three or four years I've become much more interested in making pictures which work together - as pairs, triptychs, and larger sets which may or may not incorporate pairs etc. These sets of pictures might be vaguely typological series, collections on a theme - put together in a Blurb book, as a set of postcards, or a web gallery. Increasingly I'm drawn to making slideshows - with or without sound. I suppose this has come about because I like looking at photobooks and documentary/journalistic photography where serial photographs are prevalent. I prefer books on a theme to retrospective collections, for example.
In some ways this might be seen as a cop-out. There's no need to make every photo great because a trifling photo juxtaposed against another can make them both stronger. Then again editing sets of pictures and sequencing them isn't simple. Either way I find it a more interesting approach than looking for one-shot-wonders. My approach to composition has changed too, but that's another story.
In the words of Mark E Smith; "Are you still doing what you were doing two years ago? Yeah? Well, don't make a career out of it!"
Over the last three or four years I've become much more interested in making pictures which work together - as pairs, triptychs, and larger sets which may or may not incorporate pairs etc. These sets of pictures might be vaguely typological series, collections on a theme - put together in a Blurb book, as a set of postcards, or a web gallery. Increasingly I'm drawn to making slideshows - with or without sound. I suppose this has come about because I like looking at photobooks and documentary/journalistic photography where serial photographs are prevalent. I prefer books on a theme to retrospective collections, for example.
In some ways this might be seen as a cop-out. There's no need to make every photo great because a trifling photo juxtaposed against another can make them both stronger. Then again editing sets of pictures and sequencing them isn't simple. Either way I find it a more interesting approach than looking for one-shot-wonders. My approach to composition has changed too, but that's another story.
In the words of Mark E Smith; "Are you still doing what you were doing two years ago? Yeah? Well, don't make a career out of it!"
