Here are my own images that relate to important and significant places to me. With this photography work i am trying to bring into context the kind of places i have been brought up in and around and what places i am familiar with the most in relation to upbringing and lifestyle in the past and present.
Donavon Wylie
After settling in London in 1997, Donovan Wylie embarked on a photographic project exploring an aspect of his background in Northern Ireland. The project is primarily focused on his memories and close relationship to his uncle. Out of this comes a re-examination of a background, a Protestant rural background, in the context of the 1970s, when Wylie was a boy. Combining his grandfather's diaries, extended family's scrapbooks and snaps, as well as his own photographs, Wylie gives a subjective view of a history that shaped him and the environment from which he came.
'This project was a strange mixture of not "looking" and then being taken by what you see and feel at a particular time. This seems to be the most exciting thing about making pictures – that they come to you.'
Below is a link to an audio file which contains a quote from Donavon Wylie. It has given me inspiration to carry out a similar theme to my Important and Significant places breif. Instead of relating my memories and close relationship with a person im goin to realate it to a place of memories and that has shaped me in my childhood.
below are some more images that further illustrate the theme of personal upringing and lifestyle.
The images above are key examples of the kind of elements i tend to encounter on a day to day basis within my lifestyle, (steriotypical middle class locations. bus stations, council estates, small dingy british cafe's)
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