Displaying My Photography

As the assessment for this project includes hanging the series in my own arranged wall space, I needed to think of a way to hang them. I also felt that I could use something to accompany the photographs which would make more sense of them for an audience, as you can clearly see what I've done in the photographs, but there is a lack of knowing why I have done it.

I thought of the idea of creating a blueprint surrounding the rooms, to create a small floorplan of a house which takes into account the layout of each room I have created, and then perhaps using annotations to describe particular elements of that house, describing memories I have associated with elements of each individual photograph. After discussing this with Rosie she felt it could be a strong part of the piece as a whole and so I went ahead with it.

my original desire was to actually make blueprint paper, using some chemicals to treat paper in a darkroom like environment, and then exposing it to sunlight with my design on the paper. (Tutorial for this can be found here.) However, I decided to keep it much simpler and less technical, so I bought a large sheet of blue paper and some white pens and started drawing the floorplan out myself. I firstly did it on paper much smaller, to plan out the layout of my house and then I transferred this on a much bigger scale to my blue paper.

After adding some small features of each room I was quite happy with how my technical drawing turned out.

My annotations then consisted of small personal excerpts of my memories or knowledge of each place, to provide context.

All I need to do now is consider how I'm going to arrange my photographs, which are mounted on foam board with to the floorplan.