The Garden
I was approached about starting a project of documenting the garden at the back of my school. I was put in contact with the teacher who ran the garden, Mr Baker who told me he wanted to raise funding for the garden and pictures documenting the space would be shared with the school in order to do so. This project started when I was in a bit of a slow point in my photography - both academically and for my own personal work, I had no idea what I wanted create in my photographs. whether it was portraiture I wanted to look more in to or mindless street photography or using light to make abstract pieces of art, I was a bit lost. This project allowed gave me a reason to start a project and consistently work on it as I was making the photographs for someone else, these repetitive restrictions gave me boundaries to work inside but also explore as I had never worked in one area with this type of subject in varying conditions before.
I arranged a time for me to regularly start photographing the garden, which was once a fortnight (the first day being on my seventeenth birthday) and over the weeks found it relaxing and the work easier than I thought it would be. I had to learn to look closer at ever individual corner and return often to the same angles and the same subjects to document again and again.
I arranged a time for me to regularly start photographing the garden, which was once a fortnight (the first day being on my seventeenth birthday) and over the weeks found it relaxing and the work easier than I thought it would be. I had to learn to look closer at ever individual corner and return often to the same angles and the same subjects to document again and again.