Major Project Ideas
Breaking down the ideas & their formulation
Well Ive narrowed down some ideas and like Damian I am also worried about procrastinating too long on a plan.
I would like to really push myself into the final project, I am conscious sometimes of taking the easy way out and underachieving, even if the project and photographs come out quite well. It is a chance to define the work I have already started on during the course and complete it, even in some small manner, so a continuation of the work I have done on the chechen refugees in some way would be logical and hopefully I can contact trolley books for guidance to complete a book if there is a possibility and with Paul & Johns help.
As John said we should logically be working on several projects and ideas at a time even if they are just personal ones; so here's an update of the other ideas ive reformulated and could do seperately or as a continuation of previous work on the course that i feel are unfinished:
Still to many I know but its a start to begin to narrow them down.
(Imput gratefully received)
Concepts
1) Where History Screams: Will reexamine the photographic 'journey' try to push its boundaries and anesthetics and pursue a more relavent and insightful project than previously completed on the course: perhaps using Black & white and colour,academic text, Russian and Native literature, text, audio, video and poloraid type snapshots with the subjects own text and dialouge.
I am '''aspiring of course ' to re assign the strength of importance once more to the photographic journey in the contemporary 21st century to examine a countries past, collapse and legacy and contradictions of violence.
I want to try and produce the beginnings of along term project; looking something like the bastard son of Tarkovsky & Frank.
I have two plans and I can examine my thoughts in more detail if this project progress, suffice to say one is based across the Northern Caucasus and the outlying Russian republics, the other across the Russian-Eastern line of influence in the Southern Caucasus countries and the borders of their disputed terrorties; for this Orphan Panuks: The new life is a source of inspiration.
2) Prey for the devil:(Children of Pkharmat) The Mountain regions, people and Customs of the diverse caucasian regions of the southern Georgian Caucasus Mountains
2) Oxford Days: Continuing with my Excelsior days on a unchanged 1960's cafe on the immigrant dominated Cowley rd in Oxford, now adding more stories from the rd & Oxford, pulling together writers,poets and Musicians from the area.
I will add audio and subjects own text, also adding 2-3 more stories from the area that examine: the small but diverse ethnic communities in oxford from Brazilians to Algerians.
http://kellingham.viewbook.com/portfolio/excelsior_days
3) A Polish Story (not from Salt or Earth): continuing with my stories and contridictions from a modern Poland: stories im researching the decendants of Russian religious dissidents, the Polish family,the Kaliningrad border, deserted ex soviet army camps and Georgain and Kurdish refugees. Considering using Poems from Zbigniew Herbert. would like to try and get the work exhibited at the Polish Institute in earls court London.
http://kellingham.viewbook.com/the_polish_immigrant#1
http://kellingham.viewbook.com/portfolio/the_last_village
(I will continue one or both of these as well as one of the other ideas, a developed solid book would be amazing.
4) Along the Line: basicly visiting old soviet era hotels and state run building along the border with Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova...(maybe better in winter?)
5) The Accursed Mountains: The rise of blood vendetta and abuse of the code of Kanun in the Northern Albanian mountains and their re-arise after the fall of communism in Albania, been done in colour in Foto8 before, looking for a more trad reportage approach.
8) Return to (Chechnya): returning with a dispaced refugee family through Belarus and Russia back home to Chechnya*
(* possibly the strongest and most relevent plan, but possibly also the hardest to plan, access and do, need more research and the realistic dangers and entry requirements (could be a part of no 1)
these are all strong ideas, with a common thread running thru them all of the aftermath of the collapse of soviet influence, so perhaps that is the BIG project for the next 5 years,a nd you break it up into a series of smaller projects, much as you have done already, so now we have to decide which is the best one to do next..
which one do you care the most about, and which one is the most realistic to achieve??
thanks Paul, youre right im struggling at the moment with which one to do.
I think i'll continue with my Oxford based project at the moment just to keep busy and motivated, while i research the other ideas and their viability, just worried that the work I show from this wont have any relevance for my final work as I cannot hand in two completley seperate pieces? and I will also stretch myselftoo thin photographicly.
Another plan is to continue to segment and order the work ive already done on the Chechen refugees, so it becomes stronger as a piece of work and will also make more sense when I display it. (did you see the work i did recently?...heres the link incase you havent havent had time to take a look yet:
Chechen Refugees Edited:http://kellingham.viewbook.com/portfolio/permalink/83428/d36a6a93d33f9b
Biger edit of best images: http://kellingham.viewbook.com/permalink/103524/d36a6a93d33f9b#1
(I thought that I could seperate them into segments: People,children,audio etc but I dont want to pay for another website.
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