The Manifesto Project.
Today’s lecture was the brief for our final 2nd-year project “Manifesto”. In this module, we must explore and create our own Manifesto which supports our visual practice. A Manifesto is a public declaration, perhaps political which lines out beliefs, intent and action around an ideology or cause. People who write Manifestos usually make statements about change, they make notes from the past and place them onto ideas for the future.
My initial ideas for this project is to look back at the past. A past project that I completed in the first year if uni “The Forgotten Moor” reminisce when I thought about the work that I have done that I think really makes a statement about my identity as a photographer. I photographed forgotten spaces that were once incredibly important for the economy on Dartmoor and in Devon. The mines and quarries which once supplied many hundreds and thousands of jobs have now been taken back by the land and used as a place of beauty for people to enjoy.
I know that there is a statement to be made from this idea, and that is what I am going to find during the first few steps of this new body of work. My artist Manifesto is going to stem from photographing locations that the land has taken back. The South West Coastal path is going to be the area that I am going to visual explore as it holds much history and purpose for the defenses of the south-west during the second world war. I want to learn something new about the place that I spend much of my time around. For me, my practice is made up of immersing myself in the area that I am photographically inquiring, by learning and understanding the bigger picture of the photographs. This ables me to look deeper into my compositions and visually represent the theory that stands behind my work.
Images taken from my project "The Forgotten Moor"
