Photography News Issue 56

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Editor’s letter The ins and outs of a photo project

After months of competition, planning and great photography, we have a camera club of the year, Eastwood Photographic Society. It was a well-deserved win for the Glasgow club but it was hard-fought too, as you will have read in this issue. For me, though, it was a great occasion and meeting and working with the five clubs was a pleasure and everything (mostly) went smoothly. It was very different from last year where I wasn’t sure how (or if) a multi-club, real-time shoot-out would work, so I was much more confident this time round because of the experience gained. The key thing is having photographerswho embrace the challenge, and they did, so thanks to everyonewho came along andmade the final such a memorable occasion. I’m already thinking about next year’s Camera Club of the Year event so look out for news this autumn. Autumn? Gosh, I’malready looking forward to days of mists and mellow fruitfulness and it’s only early summer. There is so much happening before then – Photo 24 and the football World Cup to name but two events. Photo 24 takes place from 29–30 June, between the group and knockout stages of the World Cup, so the 300 readers attending our event won’t be distracted by the football. I have an ongoing project which only gets supplemented every two years, during the World Cup or the UEFA European Championships: my fun with flags project. I shoot the flags of the competing teams hanging out of windows, draped across cars and so on. Inevitably, most shots are of the George Cross, but this project has no borders and I’ll snap relevant flags wherever I find them. For this year, I have a screenshot onmy tablet to help me identify flags and my challenge is to get shots of the flags of all 32 competing nations. As with most of my photo projects, the fun with flags project is purely for personal amusement and there is no end date as such. I often get asked about what happens with my projects and if I set end dates for them. Of course, while these considerations are important to some, many of my projects get no further than a Lightroom catalogue and they end when I get bored, but my flag project will have its aforementioned two year break. There are exceptions, but my projects are simply incentives to get me taking pictures in a gently structured manner. I do appreciate that some people can’t work in a free-form,

scattergun way like this, but shooting projects (perhaps ‘series' is a less pretentious description) helps control my randomness so it works for me. If you prefer a more targeted or regimented approach, then go for it – just make it work for you, whatever that takes. The only rules are the ones that you set. For example, for my figure/fine art nude project I started with my usual digital camera but I wasn’t happy with the shots, so now I’m going to try it with a pinhole camera. I am a huge fan of Bill Brandt’s work – his wide-angle pinhole nude images are incredible – so my idea stems fromthose images, except Iwill beusingdigital, not film. Oh, and that’s another thing, projects do not have to be original. I was speaking to a photographer a while ago and she said that she couldn't decide on what to shoot as a project. My response was that projects do not have to last long or change the world and can involve nothing more than rooting about in the kitchen. They can be as simple as pictures of coloured pasta, a square area of garden or a white napkin – just take a napkin, throw it on the floor and shoot ten pictures of it. Projects like this are fun, inexpensive, time- friendly and not only improve your seeing eye but also help you enjoy your photography even more. Ultimately, that can only be a good thing. We’ll meet again next month.

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