this was on my phone so the quality isn't great, it is where i work. it's like one big gursky the building fascinates me, the scale, and the fact you can see into everything. compared to other places i have worked, it isn't that big, but for some reason it makes people look so tiny, inside and outside it, like perfect railway model characters. i am still very mixed up by what to do for the borders project, part of me wants to take advantage of the space and explore the scale of this place by watching how the tiny people use it, or the views from the outside and the paths people take and the spaces they use while they walk around. maybe playing with shutter speeds and seeing the lines they make and the invisible borders that they may make through habit....
or....
sticking to the way i was working last term. the part of london i live in is made up of generations of people who have come from all over the place and this is reflected in the variety of food places there are, irish, eritrean, kazakhstani, cypriot, turkish, greek, chinese, vietnamese, lebanese, italian and they are just the ones i have in my head now (it's not that big a place... a couple of high streets...) this project would be about how people cross borders and settle in new places and cultures mix. i had a half idea of seeing if i could photograph the same meal in each place, something really controlled and photographing that... or even any graphic borders that are there, on plates, napkins or wallpaper, making those the borders of the people in the cafe... but maybe that sounds crass
i don't know, i guess the good thing about the length of this project is that there is room to explore and things change as you go along, but if anyone has any comments about which way i should jump first, i'd be very pleased to hear them.
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I love the idea about food. I understand it's a huge anthropological area. The vast majority of Lithuanians only eat Lithuanian food, which is why there are Lithuanian food shops all over the UK. You are what you eat after all. Aren't you?
I was working in Hanover a couple of years ago. The city museum has got these bottles from (I think) 18th century, with little scenes of daily life inside. Reminds me of your Gursky thing.
http://flickr.com/photos/mrsco/2456519308/in/set-72157604820696016/
how big are they? i had a look and i couldn't quite work it out... but if what i am seeing are people in there then yes, it is quite similar...thanks sco
Click on ALL SIZES for a better view. I seem to remember the bottle was no bigger than a wine bottle.
the food idea sounds good as well to me; even last night a friend said to me that she'd had complaints about not being in Vancouver for Canadian thanksgiving....she hadn't supplied traditional Pierogi as she had done for years....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierogi
it's no different from a Turkish dish here and effectively chinese dumplings too....
if i had a pound for every time i've been told that a Greek Salad is actually Turkish, but the Greeks had stolen the idea and re-named it.........
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