I've been stressing over the idea of "documentary". What does this mean to me in my own work? How can I successfully make images that work in the right sense. Is my own work too artsy for documentary work. I am used to manipulating images, even in little ways. Telling someone to tilt their head a bit. Positioning/dressing a model to express a certain concept.
Wikipedia?
The photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people. The pictures usually depict a certain perspective of the photographer.
Truthful...Photographing whats there. I've been so used to constructing everything. I have to come at this with a different perspective.
Researching documentary photography I notice a lot of it is black and white. I realise that in certain time periods that color was not an option. I wonder if people do black and white to make it seem more important. In History of Photography one of the things we learned was that some artists use color to spice up their images but that a good image didnt need color. You have to look at a picture and ask if it is good because of the composition or color.
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What if you just told a story about some experience in which you see gender at the center. A story about you and others around you. Do you have close women friends? Is there safety in this? Do you have close male friends? Do you relate differently to them? Can you tell us a story about something that you know and experience and see the camera as a way of recording what you know and experience?
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