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....