draft final peice

When we think of what we stand for, our first impluse is, i think, to think of where we have come from, what we have grown up with, our family. The reason for this being that where we have grown up and what we remember usually forms a large part of our conciusness. What we are told as children, and the values our parents had that we remember, is usually what we come to beleive as right, as what we stand for.
In my photos, i wanted to illistrate this, and also to show how it is also not always the case. I got a set of negative images of old photographs and also a set of slides, and a set of old black and white photos. These had always appealed to me as well, as they have a lot of stories and values which are lost. I took these photos and put them in different places to make juxtapositions. There were some differing results.
Some of the results are that i showed what we stand for in the past is passed down, similair to what we stand for in the future. The picture of the negative of two people getting married, held up against the present images of a couple enjoying the sun on the beach, suggest what we stand form in forms of love and relationships and very smiliar, pased down. I used a neagtive for this image, so we can see through it, and so that it collects some of the colour of the day, suggesting that it still is relevent to the day.
In other photos, the past and present becomes oppositional. for example, when putting the photo of a woman looking longing out of the photo (a very striking photo) against a blown up image of a hamburger, we relize that times have changed. the photo which, it can be assumed, used to be held in much expectation, is held up against a image-saturdated world, where everything can be reproduced over and over, like the fast food image in the background. the photo is engulfed by the hamburger, and it looses what significance it held in humerous irony. Therefore, what we stand for is often lost within what society stands for.
The photos often held much ausment for me, as holding the image against another image can often make contrasts and meanings not usually apparent to a genreal onlooker. For example, the photo in the tube, of the couple being married held up against the tube. I made this photo black and white to mimic the photogrpahs soleum value system. however, the nature of the tube(rushing, lots of people not talking or touching, smelly, noisy, dirty etc) makes the photo take on a humour; the things we stand for, like marridge, are just aspects of daily life, and can be seen as unimportant as the tube.
The final picture of the series is of a guy through a picture frame, off the frame. The jagged angle of it, how you can see my own hand, and how the rest of the photo is obscured by over-saturated white light, suggests that i am taking a photo, making my own memory of someone waiting, which might too, then show what a stand for, and be taken by future generations. I liekd this idea, of that the way we concieve memories and values through memories is passed on, representing what we stand for to future generations.