Project Proposal

In this section of work I propose to produce a book on landscape photography. I will shoot on locations of my choice as I take the journey named ‘Coast to Coast’. I’ve decided on this because it would be prefect of me to get back into the landscape where I spent a lot of my childhood, but also to get back into photography  which I haven’t done properly since the landscape module in level 4. To achieve this I will loosely follow the book ‘A COAST TO COAST WALK’ which was devised by Alfred Wainwright. It’s a fairly straight route that stretches from St Bees to Robin Hoods Bay which will provide me with a range of subjects to record. While the main theme is documenting the land, I also want to portray the fluctuating weather conditions that I will no doubt encounter because they are very much part of the character of locations across the route, especially across the lake district. To record the landscape I will use a 6D alongside a tripod so the picture quality is up to standard. I’ve chosen to go digital for my journey because there are a lot of photos to be taken in very short space of time so speed is priority over the potential character of film. Because of the time constraints I think that I will produce around 20 final images. I believe this to be a good compromise of speed, quality and quantity

Because producing a book is completely new to me, my research will have to be primarily on creating it. To be successful I will have to research the best places to create them, or if it’s possible to create my own. I need to take a look into how other photographers have done their photobooks,  paying particular attention to how they’ve laid out their images on the page or how many per page and how the type of photos effect these decisions. To start this research I will look at the books and work of the following photographers: ‘The Great Wide Open: Panoramic Photographs of the American West’. By Jennifer A. Watts and Claudia Bohn-Spector, ‘LANDMARKS’ By Fay Godwin. ‘STEPHEN HUGHES PHOTOGRAPHS’ By Stephen Hughes, and lastly ‘INDUSTRIAL LANDSCPAPE’ By Bernd & Hilla Becher. One thing I didn’t consider before talking to tutors was the name of the book which turns out to be a very important factor in photobooks which I will have to research accordingly and base it around Wainwrights book.