Folio Proposal

Visual Culture – Folio        10-04-2012

Sean Davey                                    Week Nine                                     Semester One

Folio Proposal

After preparing a folio on hands previously and looking at what different peoples hands bring to the mood of a shot, I wanted to continue with this series, but as my class mates and teacher pointed out I don’t want to be caught up repeating a previous idea, and not extending myself further. My class found out about my strong dislike towards feet, and suggested I use this folio as an opportunity to address this ‘fear’. I could not bring myself to do a study of feet, but am however interested in a study of shoes, as different people treat and care for their shoes in different ways, and this is another way of telling a lot about a person. I would like to title my folio something along the lines of ‘in my shoes’ ‘in their shoes’ or ‘put yourself in my shoes’ and I have begun photographing peoples shoes from their perspective down. Almost as if the viewer has put themselves into someone else’s body or ‘shoes’ and is looking down at their shoes. The different locations that peoples shoes are photographed and the different shoes that are worn can suggest a lot about the person, someone with well looked after shoes obviously cares about their appearance, more than someone with very old and tattered shoes. So far each of my photos has had the contrast and clarity bumped up, with the Saturation bumped down and the Vibrance bumped up to give the images a really moody look; I have also added a slight vignette, for personal preference. I am interested to see how my idea is accepted.