Elephant and Castle Art Book project:
My experimental photography of my set outcome:
A Cease in the Journey of Time – Thet Htar Phyu Phyu
10 Photography Homework
For this assignment, we were tasked to take 10 pictures of our surroundings that didn’t belong to us.
I decided to document pictures of the newspapers abandoned on the train. During my transports to University, I noticed how there were newspapers in the tube everywhere – despite never seeing anyone read them. It didn’t seem like it belonged to anyone, since if they were bought, they should’ve been taken with their rightful owner. I haven’t seen newspapers sold anywhere either so it was a mystery that they are even there.
As I kept capturing random encounters of these papers, I started to catch some glimpses of the headlines, and reading what generally had happened within that day – and documents history in some form or another.
During the discussion of my pictures, Jane noted that I could take this on further and make it into something more meaningful. Something that can spark either a historical or political statement.
In the moving image aspect. I envision something experimental, with the flashing headlines within the newspaper, or where the images within the paper becomes alive. Another idea that I’ve brainstormed was to actually take these newspaper, and cut them up into a DADA poem. This idea was based off of the previous discussion we had within the class with David Bowie’s song machine BBC NEWS SITE that spews out random words to turn into a song. We came across this topic when talking about Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” (1917)
Overall, it was quite an interesting take on an idea I can pursue later onwards in the future once I have the techniques and tools to visualize my idea.