Notes on Assignment 3 Reworked

I made the following alterations to this assignment following tutor feed back – I explored and rearranged the order in which I have presented the images. Discussion here had focused on how each of the photographs leads through the going down of the light and the subsequent end of the day. With this in mind, I moved the first picture, ‘Going down in a blaze of glory’ to the end. The discussion had also focused on the captioning of the images – it was noted that I had switched between lyrical, descriptive captions and practical ones. The suggestion was that I should try to do the series both ways and choose which one best suited the intent of my series. Talking about why I chose to take this series of photographs, I realised that they were symbolic of the situation created by the Covid-19 crisis. It feels very much like the sun is going down on the life that we know and have become accustomed to, crowded places are now empty and we are not yet certain of what the next day will bring. With this in mind I decided to keep the lyrical captions, amending some along the way, as a way of leading the viewer’s understanding of the photographs.