LBM Project 7- Promotion Week 1

Day 1-

We started off the week discussing different ways that artists promote their work. Some decide to go for a more guerrilla approach and others use conventional ways of advertising. Both methods are beneficial but guerrilla is more of a one-time publicity stunt whereas conventional advertising is more long-term, sustainable method.

I came up with initial ideas surrounding the charity ‘Open Doors’ and their ‘Blackout’ campaign, it aims to raise awareness and provide support for persecuted Christians in other countries. This year they are selling Blackout branded tape and encouraging people to take pictures of themselves taped up and upload it to their Facebook page with the message ‘Make a big noise by keeping quiet’. I thought I could possibly do some kind of guerrilla promotion relating to this- possibly taping up people from my church.

When we fed back our ideas in the afternoon I realised that it was becoming less about the photography and more about the thing we were doing, which was probably not what I wanted, so I changed my train of thought back to creating a fine art piece in my style but with these themes.

Day 2-

In order to get my work out there and form new connections I started to interact with people on Twitter. I was pleasantly surprised at how friendly and interactive some of my favourite photographers were. It was really cool to be able to chat to the people I look up to!

I did some more research into the theme of persecution and got a few more ideas.

Day 3-

Today I had my FMP tutorial, I hadn’t really thought about it much but I came with some initial ideas. I recently read ‘Never let me go’ by Kazuo Ishiguro, it is set in a version of relatively modern Britain where history is slightly altered by a new scientific discovery. The events that lead on after this create a new, darkly skewed version of Britain where some things are slightly off. The story challenges the readers as to whether these bad things would have actually happened had history been slightly different.

I want to create something similar where history is slightly altered, sending the timeline off on a new tangent. It would face the issues we have in this world through the realm of fantasy/sci-fi.