After taking lots of photos, and trying to whittle them down, i think a common theme between should be relationships. The old photos are always of people at moments of significance with each other, and often the most interesting photos i took are the ones with past relationships and present juxtaposed with each other. This also links into "what we stand for", as often people define their lives/beliefs etc by relationships with family/friends/partners. I decided to go back and re-shoot with this in mind.
However, i decided that a more interesting theme (less wide, and also one which linked more to what i had done already) was Past and Present. relationships of course link into this too, but what i found most interesting when taking photos was contrast. The old photos against the present seem to gain new meaning or juxtapose to add extra questions or thought. The picture above, for example, shows a couple sunbathing on the pier- a very touristy, english nostalgic thing to do. The placement of the negative image of a couple getting married can add extra things to this image. Instead of just a couple sunbathing, the photo might connote a memory of their own wedding, or an image of family members gettin gmarried generations before. This is what people stand for- what is within their family and the family memory. In the photo below, this can be taken a different way. The present colours are vivid and bright, with a pair gazing over the sea. The way they are looking directly matches the way the photo is looking; again suggesting nothing changes; what we stand for in the past carries on to the future (what is important.) then again, it could also juxtapose. The photo of the girl, though unknown, looks taken in 1930's, (from dress) and might connote the war/ her watching for her family to come back safe. What she stood for is both different from what the people in the present stand for, and also similair. Both are gazing into the future.
Therefore, i throught i would chose this over relationships; there is more depth to it.
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