Breifing

A brief description on what I am required to do over the next 6 weeks.

"You are required to produce a time based piece (between 80-240 seconds long), responding to the theme “Stillness/Memory”. Your work must feature audio, but this should not be a soundtrack. Your work must be contextually and critically engaged, and you must reflect upon choices made along the way, and why you have made them."

On the brief description their were 2 quotations.

Joel-Peter Witkin

[Photographer, b. 1939, Brooklyn, New York, lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.]

 

“I think that what makes a photograph so powerful is the fact that, as opposed to other forms, like video or motion pictures, it is about stillness. I think the reason a person becomes a photographer is because they want to take it all and compress it into one particular stillness. When you really want to say something to someone, you grab them, you hold them, you embrace them. That's what happens in this still form.” 

I would say that Joel-peter Watkin's photography does grab your attention. Even though he does say that photography is about stillness opposed to other forms like videos but saying that you can make a video seem still with just the audio changing.

Robert Polidori

[Photographer, b. 1951, MontrÈal, Canada, lives in New York.]

 

“My belief is that you should take stills of what doesn't seem to move, and take movies or videos of [what] does.”

Reading the quote and then looking at Robert Polidori's photography you can see the stillness of them but you can also see how it could have become a video, showing the destruction of the rooms.