Time

Going into study break I have been thinking of what I can capture to portray time. I had a few below decent ideas.

The first idea was of a place that portrayed time for one reason or another. There is one place that I have visited recently which was a path up to a power pylon. The path was barely recognizable as it had been covered by growth.

The path is so covered with green growth that navigating my way through it was a challenge.

There was even a discarded toilet hidden among the growth.

When I see this I ask myself 'how long has it been since somebody actually cared for this place?'






My second idea was to portray age through static images of people. Using Jodi Bieber's work in South Africa as a precedent I could capture people in natural situations to emphasize their age.

Bieber uses age to tell tales of poverty and sadness like in an image of a child prostitute who started that line of work at only 14 years old. I would use age to emphasize change and routine in life. This wouldn't necessarily have a preset emotional theme but each person photographed would give their own emotions to the images.







My third idea was to treat time in regards to life and death. I couldn't take photos of dead people [I don't know any]; so I would use animals. I have thought of contrasting life, by using a picture of  a cow, with death, by using a picture of a family BBQ.

I have thought more and more about this idea as it seems the most practical.
I have thought that instead of just one contrast I could produce a chain of interlinked photographs illustrating a sort of circle of life, strarting with a cow eating grass, the next image would be a family BBQ but focussed on the dog on the ground chewing on a cow bone. the third image would be a dogs grave. surrounded by tufts of grass. The fourth image would be an extreme close up of a worm farm.

This idea of a sort of circle of life I think works well. the cows feed on grass and then become sustenance for the dog, the dog is buried in rememberance and then consumed by annelids [worms] and detritivores [other organisms that break down dead matter], the excess is used as nutrients by plants like grass, which in turn feed animals like cows.

 

The above are some more shots of the cows, I think that close ups of them are more intimate, and allows people to think of them as living creatures rather than just meat.

Also here is a picture of a goat.

What's it doing at the beach?