INTERIM 1- QUEENSGATE MARKET

At the market hardware gallery in Queensgate market space Huddersfield from 14th- 20thof December I had another interim exhibition.

From the work I have been doing at the Misson charity Huddersfield I wanted to use this opportunity to have the work they did on display. Not only for the public to see but so the group can experience it as well. While planning for the exhibition I stumbled across a few problems like any other, but I want to discuss how I came over them.

Planning for an exhibition or a deadline is always stressful but start by planning for the exhibition earlier than the rest of the Corse. This is something I try to do with an exhibition. Number 1 being because the print bureau gets so busy so quickly. And a busy print room is too stressful to deal with a few days before a deadline. Plan what you’re doing week by week before the exhibition so that you can stop shooting and have all the content you want/need for the show ready.

Testing Stock

The bureau at university has recently upgraded to better stock, however, I haven’t been able to test them all to see which I like and don’t like etc. If you like a paper type the test booklet don’t just go all on and print your work because you like the feel etc. Test test test. The paper might be what you think you’re looking for or need for your work but when it printed you might feel differently. So, don’t rush and pay for your work to be on a type of stock before print testing. This is why being ready early is handy because there is no stress of print que so you can test.

A paper type I liked in the example booklet I tested it with sections of each photograph, along with a semi-gloss test as the other paper was a matt.

Exited to see the test prints I had already convinced myself I wanted the matt paper as it felt more professional, and better quality. But when I got the test prints back the paper type washed out my photographs and has a fuzzy feel to it. The semi-gloss won leaving my photographs slight shine they looked more professional.

Now that paper type and timing is on track, it’s time to decides what makes the cut for the final sequence. As I usually would I played around with different edits from the subject matters disposable photo and their self-portraits. I was forgetting that my project is about ‘giving a voice’ and by cutting down the sequence for the final edit of photographs I’m cutting their voice out. So, I needed to include all participants from the mission who took part in some way of my project. Beginning by making a list of all subject who have engaged within the project using the choices selection of their disposables of what they thought was important or better. This way I’m not selecting.  Grouping the disposable images with the self-portraits in a clear way of each individual person. This felt like a simple yet effective way to use their work with non-of my photography to give their voice of each personality and individual.

I then began to think about how to pin my work up using the 1x2 meter space given. Having multiple subjects within the group and more than one image per subject I needed to use up space effectively using clusters of smaller prints from each subject. But wanting to make sure each photograph was measured and level I decided to pin my work onto a piece of plywood and then attach the plywood to the exhibition space. Planning the measurement of each photo and the distance from the top and side of wood before marking them out.  Using the plywood I overcame the struggle of pining all the images up separate and making sure they were level and the correct distance.