photo project progress

I decided that for the photography masterpiece project I wanted to try and take a multi portrait. I wanted to take a photograph of my dad’s relationship with the land, my dad himself, the land itself & also something about man and the land. This is kinda puting a wide net but also rather ambitious so I am staying free to be flexible.

The decision to take this photograph came out of looking at all the photography I’ve done in the last few years. Dave had previously pushed this idea on me that I took images about people in landscape. Although I did somewhat agree I wasn’t sure that was going to be a kind of starting point for this project. However after some time in the doldrums not working on the reedit idea had and not having other ideas I revisited this core idea. I also looked at one of my favourite photographs that I’ve taken. This was a image of my father last autumn.

So I decided to try and almost retake this picture, something which is interesting in itself. A few weekends ago I followed him around a bit and took a few rolls of film. It’s very interesting as I’ve never really tried portraiture, even if this portraiture is almost pretending to be documentary. Here is a short list of good images.