First Thoughts

Throughout level 4 I've already produced extensive work researching and documenting my main interests, Vinyl, Music, football etc. and so for the sake of not repeating myself for this brief I've wanted to tackle something slightly closer to home.

I thought about what collections I have in my house and whether family members would have anything of interest (I have a big extended family). I came up with two initial ideas from this;

• My Grandpa (Peter Finney) roughly a year ago handed me his life collection of  - largely film - cameras. I've always loved analogue photography, particularly the romanticism behind it in comparison to digital. As well as being aesthetically beautiful objects, I know that these cameras documented both my Grandpa's young life and also my Dad and his siblings' childhoods. This gives them a very powerful and personal meaning to me and should make for a very interesting project if I can pair the cameras with notable pictures that they took throughout my family's history.

• Whilst talking to my Dad about this, we ended up discussing my Grandpas history with cars over his lifetime (we think he's had around 65!). As a youngster I was obsessed with cars and went to motorshows etc with him so we have a strong bond over cars anyway. He also raced Mini's back in the 70's and was lucky enough to own some really interesting cars - Ferraris & Porsches which my Dad believes he's photographed every one of! 

• I'd love to chat with him about both of these and gauge which would be the most interesting to pursue... Perhaps there will be an overlap of both!