This is our final Unit for Year 2 on the photography degree at Manchester Metropolitan University. The title of this unit is 'Exhibit In The City', which in-tales the year being split into even groups and curating an exhibition between your individual group, which we have to do all the planning for.
The point of this unit is to refine our photographic practice, teamwork and networking skills. We have to collaborate between our group to decide on all the different parts of an exhibition including the theme, location, fundraising, publicity and more. This will improve our collaborating skills extensively and thus improve our abilities to work in large groups in the future, which is very likely when going into the professional working place. Exhibiting work will also improve my skills at producing work that uses the gallery space creatively, and thus make it intriguing to visitors. As well as our final pieces being showcased in the exhibition, they also need to be adapted to fit a book style format, which will go along our sketchbooks/blogs at our final submission. This also poses some interesting questions on how I will showcase my final outcome of work in both the exhibition and book format as these two are very different from each other.
Our project brief for our Exhibition is- 'What is Photography?', this calls us to research, investigate and speculate the many definitions that photography might take and the varied ways, in which the photographic image is produced, consumed and distributed in contemporary society. Also we should consider how new imaging technologies might contribute to the discussion and how photography might be thought about in the future. The brief is an invitation to think about how the photographic images function, how the subtly act on us in their different formats.
So when our group is deciding our theme and title for our exhibition, we need to bare in mind how it will be connected to the 'What is Photography?' brief. Furthermore, when I am responding my personal work to our groups theme and title I also need to think about how I'm connecting my idea with the brief.