Looking ahead to the next assignment (4), the August edition of the BJP has an interesting article Stranger than fiction - 'documentary photography belongs to the realm of truth, yet some photographers are testing the boundaries between reality and fiction in a bid to reach a public that has become accustomed to these narrative forms in the literary and cinematic worlds' by Oliver Laurent. The article talks about 'the laundry Sherpa's of Brooklyn', a photographic project by Erica McDonald, a fictive story, a documentary project based on a narrative construct that mixes fact with fiction. McDonald first considered doing a traditional documentary peace about these Brooklyn Sherpa's, she wanted to use the people she photographed in a collaborative way, to emphasise the idea that they were wondering through a built up area. It seems that McDonald photographed people carrying their laundry to the laundrette in big bundles on their shoulders, McDonald placed them in built up areas. The objects were placed in the frame to look like they were about to walk into each other.
I've had an idea for my assignment photo's after looking at some Italian artwork, I've taken a huge number of images of the tourist spots of Rome, these include the Pantheon and Coliseum, I intend to combine the two images together in one for my 'magazine cover'.
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