I've been conducting an extensive email conversation ranging far and wide with my tutor, CliveW, about the difficulty of finding a suitable subject for assignment 5. This is where you have to choose your own topic within the confines of the whole people and place theme. Whilst you will have seen from my earlier posts, I thought it would give me extra points to change the location of 'place' in the eyes of my tutor, not so. CliveW suggests that I stay with what I know, ie, Lyme Regis. My only problem with this is that I and what seems like the whole world has photographed the town to death. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find new and original pictures.
As part of one email I pointed out that my true love is portraiture, and how there is a dearth of opportunities, both formal and informal, in this whole area to continue this genre. I live in a very small cottage which we managed to squeeze into only by dint of shedding 40 years of accumlated detrius to local charity shops, eb** and the local tip. No room for a studio there. Not to be out done, and I admire CliveW for his wide-ranging ideas, we have come up with the suggestion of photographing local people in their own environment. This means, of course, having the bottle to go up and ask if I can take pictures of those subjects that I feel are interesting enough to include in my portfolio.
Once I sat down to think through who I could approach, the ideas started flowing as there are a goodly number of characters in the town. I include the local harbour master, town mayoress (with or without her consort husband) who works in the local Boots part time, local fishermen, the museum curator, gig rowers, shop owners/assistants, local artists, the list is endless. Now will come the problem of sorting through and finding the best. I'm quite excited now, better get on with it as the ideas have started flowing!
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