I’ve been thinking about how best to present some of my photography in my degree show and have decided to make a book. This will be a story told by images and few words. The images will be drawn from photographs and sketches made during and/or inspired by my walks along the coastal areas of Dunwich and Orford Ness.
Inspiration for the book came from as far back as last term when I visited Dayanita Singh’s Go Away Closer exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London. She created interconnected bodies of photographs from her archives to make different themes. She displayed these in portable wooden structures which she calls ‘museums’. What intrigued me was how the photograph groups made stories, possibly different stories, for each viewer.
More information about Dayanita Singh is available at www.dayanitasingh.com.
I was also inspired by John Berger’s book Ways of Seeing (2008, Penguin) in which several chapters are conveyed solely by images – in a sequential visual language.
