Micro-project on collaboration

As human beings that constantly interact with one another, nobody can deny being taught, inspired, or influenced by others. As creative people then we cannot deny that either intentionally or not, collaboration is somehow part of any attempt of expressing ourselves out to the world. Photographers are going to take pictures that are influenced by their reading, media consuming and even social interactions. 

During this week we were assigned to develop a small project getting into little groups and see if we could create purposefully something together. This exercise helped us to understand what it’s like to collaborate with other artists and photographers with similar visions or not and to critically evaluate our result.

I had the honor to cooperate with the photographer Shaun Fry who had the amazing idea on a previous to overlap an old picture of a specific place from his town on the top of another new one, creating this amazing image. The objective was to highlight the difference from the modern day compared to the old. This time, we wanted to use this method in combining our different locations and highlighting the similarities even though we are miles apart. 

If we were to carry on this project on a full scale, we would look to explore our areas even more and match up local amenities and points of interest. If we had the resources and time, it would be interesting even to meet up at each other’s location and see what the other person spots and how different our views are.

It is very interesting to notice how similar our places really are. Richhill is a little town in the south of Northern Ireland and Crediton is also a little town but on southwest of England. Both towns are full of green and hills. Landscape and architectures are a common place. Both pictures were taken on similar lenses, but different cameras. Homero took his picture on a Fuji x-T30 with a 7aartisan 25mm 1.8 and Shaun on a Canon 6D with a Canon with a Canon 24-105mm 4. 

Non-intentionally images were taken on a similar level and had harsh tree shadows that created a sense of discomfort revealing that they were taken on different places pointing out to the collaboration aspect. On the editing aspect, both Shaun and Homero are passionate for photography technology (analog or digital) considering themselves camera geeks, so many discussions around the mini project were related to this topic and how this could impact the final result of their work or future assignments. Both also love Black and White and filmish style of editing so for this activity it was common sense to edited as it ended to be. The caption was also written with the same purpose merging the names of the streets of the photographer’s homes. Finally, it’s worth to be mentioned that the central line of image reminds us of the gutter of a photobook, splitting both two worlds and points of view of the photographers.