What’s Left After I Die?
Here are some early edits from a project I have been working on over the last month. I am travelling over in New Zealand at the moment- visiting my father and his wife. Sadly, my step-mum’s father passed away in the Summer, he lived down in Wellington where we stayed over Christmas… Ken’s house, and ‘family home’ had just been put up for sale, and I felt obliged to document the house as it was… The last time it would exist in its current state… Furniture and possessions to be sold, given away or packed up to bring home.
I was really interested in the idea of what is left after someone dies… This has been a topic I’ve covered in other projects, and something that really interests me. I tried to capture objects that would have been used on a daily basis by Ken (pictured in hat)… everyday things that really have no sentimental value, but all together combine to tell the story of a resident no longer around… I started out taking these pictures because I knew what I saw would not exist when the house had been cleared in a few days time… Amazing that 50 years of living, family, possessions, clutter and memories can change so quickly. I think it might be really interesting to make this into a small book and give it to Karen and Christine- Ken’s too daughters (shown in old photo in the frame)
On a technical note, I’m not sure how the photos inside work with the outside shots… The outside photos are more suggestive of the negative space- the emptiness and the decay that has occured due to the lack of a (keen) gardener. I particularly like how the concrete on the ground in the shot inside the greenhouse looks like a freshly laid coffin, and ties into the concept nicely. The inside photos were taken in a fairly clinical documentary style, I might look at working on the colours of the outside shots to bring them closer visually to the inside photos- although I think this could prove difficult as the success of some of the interior shots lie in their muted tones and selective colour palette- not really achievable outside.
More to come…
What’s Left After I Die?
Here are some early edits from a project I have been working on over the last month. I am travelling over in New Zealand at the moment- visiting my father and his wife. Sadly, my step-mum’s father passed away in the Summer, he lived down in Wellington where we stayed over Christmas… Ken’s house, and ‘family home’ had just been put up for sale, and I felt obliged to document the house as it was… The last time it would exist in its current state… Furniture and possessions to be sold, given away or packed up to bring home.
I was really interested in the idea of what is left after someone dies… This has been a topic I’ve covered in other projects, and something that really interests me. I tried to capture objects that would have been used on a daily basis by Ken (pictured in hat)… everyday things that really have no sentimental value, but all together combine to tell the story of a resident no longer around… I started out taking these pictures because I knew what I saw would not exist when the house had been cleared in a few days time… Amazing that 50 years of living, family, possessions, clutter and memories can change so quickly. I think it might be really interesting to make this into a small book and give it to Karen and Christine- Ken’s too daughters (shown in old photo in the frame)
On a technical note, I’m not sure how the photos inside work with the outside shots… The outside photos are more suggestive of the negative space- the emptiness and the decay that has occured due to the lack of a (keen) gardener. I particularly like how the concrete on the ground in the shot inside the greenhouse looks like a freshly laid coffin, and ties into the concept nicely. The inside photos were taken in a fairly clinical documentary style, I might look at working on the colours of the outside shots to bring them closer visually to the inside photos- although I think this could prove difficult as the success of some of the interior shots lie in their muted tones and selective colour palette- not really achievable outside.
More to come…
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