Monday, 24 June 2013

Preparations for Assignment 5: Narrative and Illustration

Exercise: A narrative picture essay

This evening we were visited by the Italian couple whom I intend interviewing and photographing for this exercise. Over a tea of home made pizza, pizzette, roast peppers and Italian bread, we spoke of how the exercise might be carried out. 

To help show what might emerge I showed Alessandra and Fedele a book of black and white photographs of a Spanish community in Andalusia that is steeped in all things Flamenco. I cheekily suggested we might stage some similar shots of these friends dancing on their dining room table, like one of the Flamenco dancers featured in the book - well, maybe!

We verbally mapped out the shots that might be involved: of their home towns in Italy; the shoe factories they worked in here in Rushden; the house they have lived in for 48 years; Fedele's workshop that he still uses for his craft of being a cobbler... I can't wait to get started!

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