Pinning down a concept for this project turned out to be much harder than initially surmised. My first gut reaction to the brief were thoughts of awesome time lapse movies... In line with that I first decided to return to an area which was a potential 'space' for project 1, the Sunday markets. Unfortunately the first Sunday was rained out so I did not attempt anything and ended up having second thoughts on whether the idea was truly about 'time' or just a time lapse for its own sake. Similar problems occurred as I ended up coming up with concepts that were interesting if I could have pulled them off but not in my mind fully capturing the essence of time.
That when I came access this set of images: Six flags New Orleans. Haunting photos of an amusement park that was abandoned after hurricane Katrina destroyed it in 2005. With this new found muse I looked back through the photos I had taken, before having a good idea, and settled on the shots of the rare snowstorm in wellington.
The uniqueness of this event lends the photos a sense of standing part of time, conveniently enough during this photo session I steadily rose higher with each shot. This fact coupled with the inclusion of the path and the sense of time standing still I hope conveys the appearance of each shot moving though the lifetime of a person. From birth at the bottom of the hill, through till old age at the top, ending with the stark silhouette to signify death.
Contact sheets etc: Soon(tm).
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