This is my final major project which i am currently working on. It is a scoial documentary featuring the north Hampshire village of Odiham. It is about sense of place and discusses the idea of a particular scenery or location within a rural landscape/village which on the surface could be seen in any other similar place in the country or on the planet, however in exploring a place thoroughly enough, particular chracterisitcs and individualities begin to define the place and make each picture specific in this case, to Odiham. Odiham is 'twinned' with the French town of Sordeval, and the second part of this project, which i aim to work on as a post graduate, will be to go to explore this place over a number of days/weeks and look at what Odiham's twin village has to offer photographically, dealing with the same themes as those in Odiham half of the series. The project is influenced by work such as Alec Soth's: Sleeping By The Mississippi, Jem Southam's: Landscape Stories and Richard Billingham's: Black Country.
This is my final major project which i am currently working on. It is a scoial documentary featuring the north Hampshire village of Odiham. It is about sense of place and discusses the idea of a particular scenery or location within a rural landscape/village which on the surface could be seen in any other similar place in the country or on the planet, however in exploring a place thoroughly enough, particular chracterisitcs and individualities begin to define the place and make each picture specific in this case, to Odiham. Odiham is 'twinned' with the French town of Sordeval, and the second part of this project, which i aim to work on as a post graduate, will be to go to explore this place over a number of days/weeks and look at what Odiham's twin village has to offer photographically, dealing with the same themes as those in Odiham half of the series. The project is influenced by work suchas Alec Soth's: Sleeping By The Mississippi,Jem Southam's: Landscape Stories and Richard Billingham's: Black Country.
A few select images from the first week of shooting
3rd year photography student studying at Southampton Solent Uni. Obsessed with film and beautiful imagery. Main influences - films by David Lynch, Wes Anderson, the Coen Brothers, Michel gondry,Paul Thomas Anderson, Guillermo del Toro, Luc Besson, photography by Alec Soth, Jem Southam, Paul Graham, Candida Hofer, Stephen Shore, Philip Lorca Dicorcia. Contact me at alexgolesworthy@ymail.com