Friday, 14 January 2011

Personal Project -Coming Up For Air

After reading Coming Up For Air by George Orwell I was inspired to take some photos outside of my college work. The book is about a man (George Bowling) who has become bored of his own dreary life and feels he is suffocating. He returns to his childhood home in search of his true self. This is exactly what I decided to do. The photographs I took are of areas where I used to play when I was a child. When I went back I found that the areas had all overgrown and there was litter everywhere etc. The work represents the naivety and innocence of childhood but growing up only to find the disappointing reality that life sometimes offers. Once I had taken the photographs I put them together with some quotes from the book. The quotes I sourced were connected to nostalgia and the past.







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