I’ve been a bit shit with uploads right now, but I have been trying to sort out the photography side of my blog because well, that is the career path I have chosen – I thought I’d better curate and keep it updated, so, if you have a spare few, I’d love for you to go and check it out! https://www.lishblogs.com/photography
I’m afraid this is another one of those life update blog posts instead of anything remotely interesting (and it’s a day late sorry), but without further ado, here we are…
I’ve been a bit more productive this week. I’ve finally managed to sort out my room so I can fit a desk and stuff in and in doing this, realised my philosophy was right – having a space to work does make me actually want to do my work (who knew?) So I thought now is a good a time as ever to start actually trying to sort out my life a bit. It’s not that I’m overly lazy – I should think I’m just a good amount, but I do tend to struggle with procrastination. But, I see it more of an art if anything, and one I have come to master throughout my years in education.
I’ve caught up on all my lectures (online obviously) and have made a start on a new module that we’ve been introduced to for this semester. I finally feel a bit more in control of my life and let me tell you – it’s a great feeling, albeit long overdue. However, because my degree is more of a hands-on course, it’s been a bit difficult to try and decide on my creative vision that I could work on whilst at home unable to work with models, or borrow equipment, or go out on location and shoot etc. It’s been a bit of a nightmare picking a brief that I can work with and know that I can execute it well, but we move. I’ll figure it out.
I’ve been sifting through my online storage and the copious amount of work and images I’ve chucked in there throughout the years and I seem to find myself missing life as we once knew it, as anyone is with the current situational circumstance. I was going through my street photography and was really sort of overwhelmed. One by how much I actually liked them. I’m not one to toot my own horn, but I see something in them, a sort of quality like my own artistic flair, which is nice, and I’ve grown to actually love what I create (NOT everything, but a lot of it). And secondly, I was hit by the sheer longing to meet with people and chat to strangers about anything and everything. Back then, it seemed I had absolutely no fear of approaching someone I didn’t know just having a bit of a chin wag and taking their portraits. The velocity of people that I met and the conversations I had with these strangers made me miss putting myself out into the world and photographing the streets of Brum. I found myself becoming very inspired by my own previous projects and I just want to get back out there and go photograph everything.
For this module, the brief instructs more of an artistic practice, preferably one driven by a political or global discourse, which is obviously apt for circumstance right now. I don’t usually discuss politics and important world issues on here; I tend to just waffle on about my life. But that doesn’t mean that I am not intrigued or involved in what’s happening in the world. In fact, I think that it’s so important to stay up to date on these things – we’re involved whether we like it or not so having some sort of knowledge about what’s happening, even if it’s only a brief understanding or a complete heavy, opinionated awareness of many of the issues, it’s vital that we can be void of ignorance.
I never was really one for politics, but I’ve been researching loads and discussing things and keeping up to date on social media and such and I’ve realised that keeping informed is something that everyone should strive to do, even if it’s a vague review of what is going on. And now, I am to base a complete uni project on one. I admit, I haven’t quite decided on what issue to revolve my project around – there’s just so many to choose from (which is an issue in itself really). But, in whichever I pick, I have to figure out a way to creatively and laterally convey an opinion or understanding of using whatever I have access to. This could be one of the best projects I will ever do, or perhaps even one of the worst. Either way, watch this space.
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