I had my tutorial with Aaron Schuman of Seesaw magazine. I showed him my 5x4 test images, my journal, scans from the photos that I shot on the Mamiya 7 and the prints that I had made from those negative.
He seemed to like my updated idea of making a journal and having photographs that go with it. But we spoke about what the frame work could be. As in, could it be a day, a month, a week, an hour, a year? in the life of me. What would be interesting to other people about that? He suggested a weekend as it is a length of time that people are familiar with, like a convention that people are aware of. People go to work for 5 days then have a two day break. I like this idea, and I think it works well with my own line of work where I often go to work on the weekend, going away on the Friday evening to then come back on Sunday, unlike the majority of people working their 5 day week and having a weekend break.
However I'm not sure this works for me personally, its hard to put my finger on why. I think it is because a lot of the photographs happen in the week, a lot of the story happens in the week days. I think when I have so many pictures and I start to editing them down, that is where the sequence and the concept will come out. For now I will try and photograph every little thing, all the small overlooked things in my day. The writing on my hand to remember things, the arrangement of papers on the desk, the ripped hole in my trousers, the random assortment of pens near my workspace, the view of the seats infront of my eyes as I sit on the train for the 1000th minute.
My notes from the tutorial:
How can I turn my project into something for the viewer?
Procrastinating is almost when I'm deliberately wasting my own time - rather than when time is wasted by something not under my control.
In my journal I am not really describing what I am thinking in these moments, just a small narrative of what is happening. in that moment - why is someone else going to be interested?
How can I make my thoughts more visible?
Somehow communicate the frustration of losing time and translate visually the feeling of frustration of wasting it
AS on procrastinating all day - "no matter how much time you're given, you're going to waste it"
"It could be that what you think is wasted time is actually just you living your life"
He said to me if I had one month with no responsibilities what would I do? In that moment I thought maybe I would just stay looking at facebook or watching tv or looking at funny pictures.
How would I make a story of losing time in a sequence? The time of the piece of work. Is it 1 day, 1 month, 1 hour 1 year? what could it be?
To tell a story I need to find that structure.
Perhaps I need to catalog all of that stuff of what I could be doing if I wasn't 'trapped by time'
I need to get the viewer into my own head.
The weekend as a time for the piece - its supposed to be a time off, its relatable - i could collect everything, pictures of everything, all the little things.
The documentation of me wasting time - could it be a work of fiction, presented as fact?
He suggested I look at Michael Schmelling - the week of no computer.
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