For my personal project, I am inspired by the novel by Alexa Chung- ‘it’. ‘It’ is essentially a book filled with personal photographs (without a ‘selfie’ photograph in sight) and anecdotes along with them. I am inspired by this particular work as it is rather simplistic in its style. I feel that my project brief one will be heavily inspired by this work. In it, she writes in her own words explaining to the reader what she is inspired by, and things that she enjoys. It is quite a personal novel, and think that it is an appropriate choice to be inspired by in this particular project brief. However, I feel that I am beginning to gain more solid ideas for the project. At this stage, I am brainstorming ideas relating to my Turkish heritage, as I feel that it is a huge part of who I am as a person. I consider myself as much Turkish as I do Australian- but its a little bit difficult for me to find an idea for a photograph that represents this thoroughly.
My other idea for the moment involves taking a picture of my favourite novel. I have a worn copy of Jane Eyre that I found in a Fitzroy second hand book shop when I was 15. I read it during a not-so fun stage of my life, and loved it ever since. It has been a book that I mindlessly escape to during tougher times in the past few years, often reading it when I couldn’t sleep at night. I feel that I should take photograph of that book for this reason, as it symbolises a great deal for me personally.