Day 7: Lens Based Media - Memories Within Your Environment

Prior to our first Lens Badsed Media lesson we had to take photographs of 'memories within your enviroment'. I was confused on what exactly I had to photograph so I just took photos of abandoned areas in public. Here are some photos I took:

When I got to class I realised that the photos were supposed to be a memory to me personally. Thankfully I had taken photos in my house and could link some of my photos to a memory. Here are the photos I took inside my house:

I decided to link them to abandoned things in my house as my mum works hard and doesn't have time to repair things in the house so they become abandoned projects. The dead flowers are something that annoys me the most in the house and has caused a lot of disagreements with my mum so I decided to use them for my task of the day. I drew the first photo, I didn't have time to finish in the lesson (I'm going to finish it on the weekend and upload it later).

After we then had to manipulate the drawing with paper to cut, crop and manipulate a new story. Here are some example I did:

I cropped this section to only shows the dead plant, wine and knife to manipulate into a story of an violent alcoholic who doesn't have time to look after their home i.e. water plants. (FYI my mother is none of those ha!)

I learnt that pretty much any photo can be manipulated and change the story. I guess a lot of photos in the media have been manipulated to emphasise a story in the news.