Reflections 14- Photography Idea Developement

For my photography idea, I looked at the work of a website called 'Disposablememoryproject.org.'. The project was looking for at the physical side of memories such as photo prints, which for me is one of the best ways of keeping memories. I recently visited my nan and we sat down together with a box of hundreds of old photos, from the early 40s to the present day. My nan, now 90, can still to this day look at each photo and reminisce in what happened that day. I found this interesting as I to could do the same with the photo's from when I was born, to the present day, however some memories for me were fragmented and forgotten and I had to be reminded of certain aspects. I found this useful in thinking about my idea a little bit more and the direction I want to go in

Idea 1: I thought about having 5 found photo's of myself from when I was born to the present day, and as the photo becomes newer, the picture becomes slightly less blurred, to suggest that I have forgotten parts of my early childhood. The first photo will be quite blurred and the last will not be blurred at all. 

Idea 2: My second idea would be to use the idea of developed photo's and take a picture of someone, and remove the head and replace that with an image of significance, for example moving away from home or your first christmas and so forth. Each photo could be of a different person and their memory. The memory itself must be quite clear in the photo I chose to replace their head with, otherwise it will get confusing for the person viewing the piece. This idea is similar to the concept I spoke about in a previous post, where people memories are written down on cards and put in front of them, to hide their identity (video below). In addition to this, I got inspiration from a photo I found of someone's head being cleverly replaced with a globe. The photo itself is from a set of humorous photo's taken by an artist called Andy Vible, who replaced the head with various items (http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/andy-vible-headless-human-sculptures)