My Grandparents have had a very large influence on my upbringing and I therefore have a great amount of respect for them and anyone of their generation. When we were briefed for this project my initial thought was to focus my project around ageism, in particular the stereotypes and prejudices people have against the older generations.
I had thought from the beginning that I wanted my project to have a strong connection to symbolism and take inspiration from the symbolism in still life paintings. This is how I thought it best to express my thoughts, emotions and response to this issue.
I looked at the works of painters such as Hans Holbein, I draw a lot of inspiration from his work due to his works' strong connection to symbolism, which is what I wanted my project to be focused on. I also looked at the photographer Justine Reyes, her still life imagery was both aesthetically pleasing and symbolic which gave me a lot of food for thought.
When it came around to think about what objects should best represent the prejudices related to ageism, I thought that using an egg or a group of eggs seemed most accurate as for me they symbolise new borns, the younger generations and innocence.
My idea for cracking the egg was to make a point from the prejudice view, as though the elder generation were now a broken youth. The statement I was trying to make was that young generations can be just as broken as the older generations and that vice versa, the older generation can still crave the level of activity and engagement that the young do.
I really like my idea, and think that my concept reached the points I was trying to comment on well, but looking back felt that it could have been greatly evolved. I think that the final picture without any context isn't 'obvious' enough, and in this situation maybe it needed to be.
The photo shoot for this project was my most stressful of all the ones I have had to do for these projects. I wasn't confident enough with the camera, and I definitely wasn't organised enough! However, I think that from this bad came good, because I will now be completely organised for every photo shoot I do.
I liked my concept for this project as it was very personal to me and meant a lot to be able to comment on this issue, I have also learnt a lot about the expectations of a photo shoot, especially when you are organizing it yourself.
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