Editing and my Final Selection

The following 6 photographs are the unedited images which I will use in my project:

I did consider asking one subject what colour they would associate with their true memory with and tried to highlight this aesthetically in terms of editing. This was before I had chosen my final images. I edited the following photograph of my boyfriend to appear dark green:

I really liked this aesthetic, especially as bright vivid light and colour on the right could have connoted new beginnings of some sort or the happiness of his current life, intertwined with the sense of darkness and foreboding he feels when reliving his memory. I also liked the dream like aspect of the photograph attained due to the distant reverie in his expression and the clarity setting which I heightened to attain a sharp contrasty feel, making Djordje really stand out to the viewer. However I felt that this photograph wasn't as good at conveying the truth of the memory as well as the other one and I felt that a Black and White aesthetic would underline the ideas of memory truths and distant pasts better, whilst simultaneously tying all the photographs together succinctly. I greatly enjoyed using the clarity tool to sharpen detail in the face of all subjects and portray the physicality of time passing. I edited highlights and contrasts to bring some of the photo's to life a bit more and added shadows as I found that this often brought out eye colour and thus heightens engagement, and effects a uniformity in my photo's as a set. I understand that they differ slightly (i.e. as Djordje's close up is not against a white wall, and he doesn't share an intra-diegetic gaze with the camera/viewer) but, upon seeing many sets of photographs at the V & A and from my online research I understand the photography allows for creative freedom and it is the significance of the point above the aesthetic which is of greatest importance. I noted that the works of people like Nan Goldin , although had overt themes running through them, could be slightly or even greatly different in terms of their aesthetic.

I think all of these photographs stand alone in their own right as they all communicate something to the audience, yet encourage the viewer to build their own ideological, sociological and psychological thoughts into the photograph, thus portraying further distortion and fracturing of memories every time that they are told or represented.

These are my final selection: