Back to shooting pictures for the MA course, and it feels good – it felt frustrating getting bogged down in critical theory and the like. Peter Fraser’s recent talk on intelligent still life, just like his talk to us last semester, was thought-provoking and inspiring.
He wanted us to shoot with our emotions, let the subject control us, and not the other way round. Take pictures as you feel them and not doing anything contrived or ‘designed’. Using the technique he’d recommended when I was shooting VISIONS – closing one’s eyes for twenty minutes, shutting out all visual stimuli thereby unloading any visual baggage and then opening one’s eyes again and letting emotions guide you as you shoot. He wanted to see where this would take us.
I opted to do the assignment at the house where I used to live, up in what used to be my bedroom – a room I’ve been clearing out bit by bit. The twenty minutes of shuteye must have made me very introspective. I’d already decided I was going to shoot in black and white, and would concentrate on tight details around the room, but had no idea what I’d shoot specifically.
Here are the results - a reflection of my quiet, reflective, nostalgic yet partly foul mood.
MAPJD Past Life - Images by Darrin Zammit Lupi
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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