Today, I managed to visit two of my subjects, who live on the same street, to take photographs of their boxes. To save time when photographing, and to make sure the lighting is the same in both images, I have asked them to count their collection in the specific box before I arrived.
First, I visited the house of Samuel, who collected receipts, which is a very common thing to collect. He counted that there were 1,005 receipts in this box, with many more in other boxes scattered around his bedroom. To fit with the series, however, I decided just to photograph one box in the room that it was kept. Samuel's bedroom was quite small, so I could not get the desired angle and distance from the box that I required from my other images, so I decided to capture the box on his bed. I felt this gave the box some context, as the colourful background contrasted with the plain white box. However, I do not think I will be using this as one of my finals, due to the fact there is a lot of distractions in the foreground.
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| 1,005 receipts |
After visiting Samuel, I moved on down the road to the house of Karen, who collects postcards from different places she or her friends/family have travelled too. She spoke about her need and compulsion to own postcards, so much so she spends some of her monthly wage on ordering postcards from Ebay from all over the world. Considering she spends a lot of money on her collection, it was surprising when she pulled out a battered box from a dusty cupboard in her bedroom. I am considering this image as one of my finals, due to the fact that the colours of the background and the box are very complimentary, and are not so bright that they are distracting.
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| 840 postcards |
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