TASK 4 PROJECT PROPOSAL (MAPPING IDEAS)

Map out what you need to do to construct a proposal using the

guidelines below:

Consider the following format to help you build a structure:

1. What is the research question/topic/issue or theme being

investigated?

2. Reviewing the existing field of examples (in books, articles

and works of influence)?

3. What different contexts might this topic apply to –

commercial, artistic?

4. What types of methods/approaches/processes might be

used to explore the topic/theme/issue/question in more

detail?

5. How do you propose to approach this topic in relation to

your subject specialism? What work might you generate?

6. Aims and objectives – what are you going to explore and

how might you go about doing it?

7. What specific thought processes/insights do you currently

have about the project management and delivery of your

proposed idea?

8. Make sure to reference using the APA Referencing style -

http://www.hud.ac.uk/media/universityofhuddersfield/cont

ent2013/services/computingandlibraryservices/library/docu

ments/APA-Referencing-Full-Guide.pdf

9. Portfolio of development work (idea generation, mapping

processes, creative and visual explorations in practice).

1. The research question as a defined result will only come once I get deep onto my research and practice, but the topic will be around nature vs nurture, family photographs and family absence. I wish to research Upton the key factors which create the nature vs nurture debate and go deeper into the behavioural environment.

Due to the lack of my father’s presence as a child and several environmental factors not shaping me as they easily could have (witnessing abusing relationships and alcohol abuse) I wasn't at all nurtured by my farther, yet I still became his double. This has always interested me of how and why?

I would also like to delve into family archives of my dad and late grandmother who I have no memory of meeting as a minor. I want to explore this genetic bond and similar characteristics from people I was not even aware of until 15 years old witch by then I had already become a version of them.

2. As far as existing work of nature vs nurture within family's created into photographic project, I haven't come across anything, although I have come across many artist who have photographed their family. Mathew Finn being someone I have recently discovered and his project mother.

I have however been reading Nature and Nurture: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Behaviour By ROBERT PLOMIN and KATHRYN ASBURY. This book gives both sides of how nature and nurture are 50% responsible for us being who we are.

Another text I have ordered to read is Annete Kuhn family secretes; acts of memory and imagination.

Further Reading List

• Bán, Z., & Turai, H. (2010;2015;2009;). Exposed memories: Family pictures in private and collective memory (N - New, 1 ed.). New York;Buapest;: Central European University Press. doi:10.7829/j.ctt2jbm8r

• Erkonan, Ş. (2014). Family photopraphs: Exploring the role of photography in the construction of family memory with the etnographic method. Moment Journal, 1(2), 122-147. doi:10.17572/mj2014.2.122147

• Kuhn, A. (2007). Photography and cultural memory: A methodological exploration. Visual Studies, 22(3), 283-292. doi:10.1080/14725860701657175

• Plomin, R., & Asbury, K. (2016;2005;). Nature and nurture: Genetic and environmental influences on behavior. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 600(1), 86-98. doi:10.1177/0002716205277184

• Plomin, R. (1990). Nature and nurture: An introduction to human behavioral genetics. Thomson Brooks/Cole Publishing Co. 

Documentary to Watch

• Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldworth working with the time (photographer who created sculptures from nature then photographs them)

• Three Identical Strangers (Triplets in America all adopted and separated at birth)

3. Topics this project might connect to would be the artistic use of storytelling within documentary photography and then the research using evidence of the project and discussions around family and genetics.

4. I will be using the method of photography to document in an artistic light the finding I research. I wish to take self-portraits and look at archival material from my farther childhood and the absence of him in mine. The posing question of what is stonier nature or nurture?

I want to question whether I turned away from the path I could have fallen down by my own instinct or was it my farther genes?

5. I want to generate a series of photographs exploring my personal experiences and my family genetics and environmental factors.