INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION


For this project I chose the theme ‘’Indistinct’’. Having worked with blurred movement and light painting on my previous project I felt I would like to develop a little further this side of photography that allows photographers to allude to whatever they want to show without  showing in an obvious way. In other words I would like to explore photography that allows for different interpretations and that, at the same time, leaves something unsaid.

Within this frame of mind ‘’indistinct’’ is the theme that appeals to me the most as the word itself means something that is not completely clear. Indistinct makes me think of how memories that are nor very clear work. Memories of early childhood, memories of dreams and memories of events that for some reason we can’t fully reconstruct tend to come in fragments which logic we are not fully able to grasp. Sometimes these fragments of memory are triggered by something, a smell, a melody, a sight, sometimes they just seem to come to our minds for no special reason. In both cases they tend to leave us with that nagging feeling that there’s something more that we should be able to remember but we can’t, something that feels very close and yet too far away to reconstruct in our minds. It’s that feeling and the way it could be expressed through images, that I would like to work on in this project.

When making my mind map I was gathering ideas of how I could tackle this theme technically, and four possibilities stood out to me: unfocused image (maybe including bokeh technique); photographing reflections on water, because of the way water distorts shapes and renders them less clear; focusing on details or textures; and using light painting to illuminate only parts of a night scene. These are the ideas I have so far for this project.  I might not use all the possibilities mentioned above, I may try to mix them up. I am not yet fully sure which techniques I would like to explore more deeply in this project, but I know I would like do it with more precision than in the previous one, giving more attention to the way I am using each technique and trying to learn from it.