Virtual Precedents 2

For my virtual photography project, I have decided to further explore the idea of memory. I was interested in the idea that images on Google Maps and Google Earth are in themselves memories, and form a kind of time capsule. They are images of the past and the worlds we explore no longer exist in the same way. I was also interested in the idea that memories are in part our own construct. They can change and warp subtly or enormously over time. Ideas, figments of imagination, and dreams can also become part of our memories, and what we think we remember may not have occurred in reality. I wanted to explore this idea through projections of virtual places, as memories are things we 'project' onto ourselves, other people and objects, and also become part of our identity. Marja Pirlia is a photographer who constructs camera obscuras inside her models' bedrooms. Their external surroundings are projected onto their immediate surroundings of their bedrooms. The final images speak of the places they live in, the way they live and are a reflection of the people they are. I want to utilise bedroom surroundings with my projection images as I feel bedrooms speak a lot about how a person as they currently are, and would juxtapose against their projected memories. Lee Kirby utilises projections in his portraits to create dreamy, ethereal images. I want to try replicate this same mood in my own photographs.

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