So I've been thinking about the manchester through the rainy/steamed up windows idea.... I did a project like this last year and from the images i have from it they seem are quite dark, and as Megan just said people need to be able to breathe when they get off a plane.

Remembering something Mel said in the first meeting about images being made 'transparent' or to something to that effect, and then those images being put onto the windows of the arrivals lounge, perhaps these kind of images might work quite well there?

Here are a few of the images, see if you can see what I mean.

From getting off the plane after the 7 hour flight from New York, I know that the first thing I wanted to do was breathe a breath of fresh air, and see nothing but a kind of non-space, a bit of freedom from the confinement of the hot, dingy cabin at night. Everything so far sounds really great, but I think some fresh colours need to be included for those people coming from the long haul flights, lots of blues and greens and fresh yellows might work really well... especially to brighten up some of the dingier spaces in the terminal. I'll get some images together and put them up!

Brief Comment on Shooting Spec

Pleasse shoot for quality (use best camera available), RAW files if possible, otherwise Highest quality jpeg, Some situations may require joiners , vistas psnsramas etc (shoot so that they can be stitched together post production).

Working up Projects

Update from the Monday meetings
Thanks to all of you who turned up and BIG apologies if we talked too much (as always….,. but see it as a sign of our enthusiasm!)

From what was shown and posted we have suggested that, at least, the following ideas/ projects could be worked up.

Projects the we have agreed to work up so far:

• Rainy Bus Windows: Project Manager- Ahmani
• Doorways and windows: Sophie Lee
• Hopperesque windows (see Edward Hopper) : Hayley Slater Ling
• Colourful Friedlander (see Lee friedlander) Night shots but with vibrant saturated colour: rusholme from top of bus / china town wet pavements, reflections of colour in puddles : Ines Dalal and /or Polly James and/or Hayley Slater Ling......the night people
  
• Street Portraits: Adam Mead
• Paper Aeroplanes: Daryl Hopper
• Meeting places / Points meeting / waiting : Hannah will develop this further

Remember this doesn't mean you should stop working on your own work and ideas, the richer the pool of work generated, the stronger the pool of wok we have to work with when we start considering site and placement.

The Project Manager (PM) is just a suggested way of working (perhaps grand title maybe, the Project Manager will be helping to steer and co-ordinate the making of the work,  it gives you the opportunity to work with a small team of other people who have expressed an interest in the project. If you feel that you can undertake the work without help that is no problem, although this is a good opportunity to see how you can work a part of a small team ( to delegate, share , bounce ideas keep company)

Project Managers could use blog to call for ‘expressions of interest’ and select from the responses, alternatively just ask some people…

Remember –Have fun , enjoy the looking, the thinking and the making, keep it relaxed and lyrical, use blog or email me with any questions etc.

Other thoughts:

Would like some people to work with hotel lobby spaces, stairways / corridors and reception desks

Please continue to add your work and ideas to the blog, especially around following:

Horizons / vistas / views / beauty and calm: (Megan Gorman’s suggestion)

Empty ambiguous signage

Queues and nightclub

Backs of Heads (Lorna Berry?)

I am sure that you will come up with other thoughts and ideas, please keep posting them

We will meet again early Jan to see where we are then;

football/lowry and trees

this is the sort of image i was talking about in the meeting:

which incorporates both Lowry and football which Gavin thinks we should include...haven't shot anything new similar to this yet, dunno what anyone thinks of the matchstick people style...

also some of my own work - on goal posts, which can be re-worked maybe to work like windows perhaps....

Also a lot of my own work involves trees, mostly singular trees which might look quite nice except most of them aren't shot in Manchester so probably wouldn't be used? These two were shot in North England. Although it'll be quite hard to re-create nice tree images in winter....

apart from that i'm quite interested with working with sophie on her idea as that sounds really interesting and could look really nice i think....

some ideas

Here are a few ideas i have for the project..some will work better in small spaces others in longer spaces

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I like the idea the of doors and playing with narrative (i dont know who posted it sorry) but I've always been interested in tunnels, for the same reason as well as it controls two journeys/direction in one structure. Here's a couple of photos. I need to work towards getting some more. Joe

p.s any interesting tunnels anyone has seen?

heres a few things i was thinking of :)

composiions with lines, images of manchester, weather, abstract

Catherine Redmond

Bikes and bikes and bikes

Love all the stuff so far, 360 panoramas would work really well.


I had an idea of a piece using several scale images, placed side by side, these could be quite playful and build an ethnographic picture of manchester, modern day culture rather than Happy Mondays blah blah etc. 

Like these ones below, but obviously less European...

"Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person."

The idea of arrivals and the emotions surrounding them vary greatly. They could be the start of great happiness or totally confusion and bewilderment. Lost in a crowd of people. Looking for the familiar that doesn’t assimilate. The need for security and comfort can come in many forms and so I started to form my initial ideas around the idea of communication. Above are three starting points where I looked at telephone boxes.

Re: Doorways and windows

Lovely. This is a great idea Sophie, could you shoot something v quickly for Monday (quick digital tests ) so that it is more Manchester and less French/ Canadian (still keep that poetry and wistfulness though). Like the domestic and opportunities for drama. reminds me of Sam Taylor Woods early work with 360 camera;


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Doorways and Windows

Id thought of the hotel idea at first, lobby's and bars, with windows behind looking out onto the city....

• Windows seeming to open out through the walls, and doors half open to reveal something? Constructing a narrative through each door as you walk along, or mini narratives of their own...These aren't my images some are stills from Chantal Akerman's Hotel Monterey and some are by Martina Sauter

Just a quick idea :)

These are the kind of thing I was wanting to enter, I know they wont work on the long corridors but think they would work well in the more closed in areas. Any suggestions welcome.

a few vague/initail ideas from the brief

boredom/impatience:




agitation:


northern quatre:







transport delays:


anticipation:


unfamiliarity:


piccadilly gardens:


culture:




-Inès Elsa Dalal

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Arriving from New York

Hopefully some ideas will materialize from the group. Arriving very hot, extremely tired and a bit dissorientated... what would have been good to see to welcome travelers to the North West, and to make them feel more at ease in preparations for the immigration hall? Whilst it is still in your mind for those that made the journey your thoughts please.

Also all those wonderful shots celebrating the wonder of New York that have made you think of potential photographs yet to be made.

The Shudehill Experience

Shudehill. A combination of short notice /NY / lucy 's lovely workshops and bad weather ensured a very exclusive turn out for the trip........Ahmani and I started from top of multi-storey and wandered back through town.

As a vantage point of Manchester it is great, like the wheel but cheaper. Recommend that if any of you can go this week you should, and then just 'flaneur' back and see what thoughts and ideas you may come up with. we will get together Monday 14th

Shudehill map here:

On Monday 14^th Dec we will run some sessions to bounce ideas and identify some themes and shoots, etc. We will run these room 111. Attend either 1.30-2.45 or 3.00-4.45. please aim to make one of these sessions, bring some ideas or thoughts about where your interest are (email me if you are not going to be able to make it, but still want to be part of the production)

From this small, cold but enjoyable session, some possible starting points thoughts/ locations came from this:

Hotel reception areas /waiting areas, Very much liked Britannia (the pic with a chandelier) :

and , perhaps the best idea of the day came form Ahmani's jouney to Shudehill, with her views of Manchester through steamy bus windows:

Back streets (possibly too grim but not if treated with care and aesthetic consideration .. sunny days, carefully shot, or shoot as silhouette

Markets (not Christmas), possibly Arndale ( Longsite more authentic?) treated from customers perspective, not a branding exercise

Panarama from shudhill ( top of Hilton?) that shows the edges of the city ( the hills that surround..)

Anyway these are early thoughts to begin with. Do please start commenting and adding your own.

To recap, that on Monday 14^th Dec we will run some sessions to gather thoughts and ideas from the exercises /bounce ideas / identify themes and shoots etc. Room 111. Attend either 1.30-2.45 or 3.00-4.45pm.