Looking back at Martin Parr’s work and the way he documents things through photography, like his piece ‘Common Sense’, where he took photographs in the UK and abroad of scenes and items which related to the consumer culture. He then edited these to make them overly vivid and bright to heighten this culture. This really made me want to document more things other than my drawings which I have been doing.
Earlier on before Christmas I had collected some shoes from charity shops to follow a strict rule similar to what some collectors put upon themselves religiously. So deciding to go back to the shoes I thought of taking photographs of various people in their different shoes. As they often say you can tell a lot about a person from their shoes…
Although after doing this I wondered why I had as it doesn’t actually relate to me … unless it were to be of my shoes but I am not really sure if this would be achieving what I want with portraying myself through my collections. Not sure whether this is taking a step back in the wrong direction…
