New Brief Thoughts

When we were given our new brief  I found that I liked it a lot more than the first one we were given.
For one thing I found that we didn't have a difficult text to get our heads around and our sole focus could be on the the work, getting our ideas and purely focusing on the task at hand.

Our word for this brief is "Narrative" this instantly sounded more appealing to me than our previous brief which was "what is photography".
I felt like this new Narrative brief worked so much better for me and my style of photography than the previous brief, as I can use it to my advantage to photograph  what I am good at. Which is Landscapes.

I chose landscapes because we were told to focus on things like:

• what are you curious about?
• what intrigues you?
• what excites you?
• what fascinates you?
• what questions you?
• what puzzles you? 
• does your idea interest others?

I am interested in how landscapes can change how the weather or lighting can make the place feel completely different. I plan to incorporate this into the area I live and the surrounding areas. 

For this project we also have to write an essay comparing and contrasting two photographs that link into the work we will be producing, for this I think I am going to be looking at the work of Don McCullin's with his landscapes because I think the way they are heavily contrasted is reflective of his time being a war photographer. McCullin has also previously stated that his Landscapes became more of a process of healing for him after the years of photographing war ridden places. 

The other photographer I plan to look at for this is Robert Adams because I find his work very interesting and also a complete turn around from the work of Don McCullin.