Dear Photograph

After thinking about how I wanted to present my photographs in my book, I got round to focussing on the question "what photographs was I going to take?". I had originally decided upon taking a singular image of the photograph after a week, on a blank surface. However, since researching into different photographers and their personal project, I realised I was going to need to elaborate on that. I have since decided to include a scanned digital image as my first image in my triptych, then a photograph of the image after a week of being carried around, being held in the persons hands, and then a full length image of them holding the photograph, from a low angle point.

I was looking at the blog 'Dear Photograph' whereby people send in their old photographs being taken to the same location many years later. I was inspired by this website to formulate my middle image, of my person holding their image.

I love the way that the photograph has been aligned as much as possible with the background. However, I have mostly been inspired by the person holding the photograph, so that the photograph and finger is in focus, and the background is slightly blurred. When taking my image, I plan to use my 50mm lens, on the smallest f stop available, such as f/1.8 or f/2.0. This means that the background will be blurred and unimportant in regards to the image, so that the image is the main focus of the shot.

I want all my models to hold their image in their left hand, so there is a form of continuity within the images. Therefore, the triptychs will all connect visually, as well as mentally.