Project 65: Symbols

This project required us to think of more than one visual symbol for the following subjects:

• Growth
• Excess
• Crime
• Silence
• Poverty

It states that we don't need to take pictures unless we feel suitably enthusiastic! Well, as someone who has persevered with every single project on this course, I couldn't very well not take pictures could I? Any assesors reading this, please take note! It was also a good discipline to see if I could turn an idea into a visually attractive reality. Sometimes an idea doesn't produce the picture you thought it would.

Growth

• Acorns under an Oak Tree (may need a super wide angle lens for this)
• Acorns made of gold (requires some photoshop)
• A tall person
• A child standing next to a measuring chart
• Plus some of my ideas on the previous post (project 64)

Excess

• Images of obesity
• A mass of junk food
• Close up of a high spec car badge (jaguar/ mercedes), perhaps using a wide angle lens again
• City boys drinking champagne
• A shot of the nouveau riche at the races, particularly drawing attention to an over the top hat
• A celebrity with all their designer labels dripping off

The only accessible photos from this list are the junk food and the car badge (if I can take it without getting arrested). As I haven't done much food photography in this course, this is a good opportunity.

Crime

• Police tape (not feasible for me to take, but is a classic shot used on the news pages)
• Graffiti
• Broken windows/ smashed phone boxes
• Knife/ Gun
• Drugs
• Bars on windows, indicating jail.

Silence

• A very serene landscape, empty of people. For example a jetty over a lake at sunrise/ sunset. Add in a figure in a yoga pose, meditating.
• A graveyard
• A person holding their figure to their lips to say "Shhhhh"

Poverty

• An empty purse, with a few pennies scattered nearby
• A scruffy child with no shoes
  
• A picture of a cage with the phrase "The poverty trap"
• A fridge with just one thing in it - e.g. value branded milk

I can't think that any of these will be considered very original, but they provide plenty opportunities to produce visually attractive images. Not all of them are accessible - however if I lived in Beverley Hills then there would be plenty of images of "excess" and celebrities to take.

Anyway, here's some of my symbols: