fotografie.

Nolli Morrison

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Op hun voorhoofd staat soms het zweet van een nacht lang worstelen met covid. Wat het meeste opvalt, zijn hun ogen. En hun verhalen. Die er soms zomaar uitrollen. Na hun dienst liet het personeel van de ziekenhuizen in Bernhoven en Breda (Amphia) zich portretteren door fotograaf Jiri Büller. 'In mijn dromen heb ik al veel nachten staan werken op de ic.'

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My Family Concept 5 - Cultural Differences

The culture in Scotland and the Netherlands is very different in several ways. Politics, healthcare, transport, media, food, traditions etc. By focusing extra on the differences I want to find out what could have been, if I grew up in Scotland instead of in the Netherlands. Creating a timeline of my life, and seeing what happened in Scotland at the time and how it could’ve affected me. Creating the alternate life what could’ve been. 

Finding a project of a photographer suited to this idea as inspiration has been quite difficult so I decided for work that shows what it could be like growing up in Great Britain. 

Doug Dubois - My Last Day At Seventeen.

What: An alternate timeline growing up in Scotland instead of Netherlands

Why: Mainly pure curiosity of what could’ve been. Also to show how different a country can be even though population and geographically on the same continent. It shows the different chances I would’ve had in a different country in Europe and were it could take me. 

How: Statistics from over the years that show what the spending would’ve been based on my parents their jobs. Combining that seeing where I would’ve gone to school, the average grades from that school and the learning facilities it accommodates. The after school activities that would be in the area and available. Also the main diet and ways of getting around. Based on this information creating pictures of what could’ve been by editing childhood pictures and taking new ones in Scotland.

Requirements: 

- Statictics from Scotland over the past years.

- Average from school grades and their follow up opportunities.

- Childhood pictures

- Camera

- Living area in Scotland.

Final Product: A side by side of my life in the Netherlands and the possible life in Scotland. It shows the different opportunities you can have based on where you grow up and what the income is. Created with old archive pictures that have been altered to create the alternate story line. 

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Manchester by the Sea

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Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Julian Rosefeldt - Manifesto

Julian Rosefeldt - Manifesto (2016)

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NRC: De vergeten ‘weeskinderen van de VOC’

NRC 

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Foam: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto - Atlantic Ocean, Newfoundland (1982)

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Huis Marseille: Scarlett Hooft Graafland - Shores Like You

Scarlett Hooft Graafland - Dunes Like You (2016)

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Film: One Floor Below

Radu Muntean - One Floor Below (2015)

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Film/Documentaire: Bodkin Ras

Kaweh Modiri - Bodkin Ras (2016)

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My Family Concept 4 - Becoming part of

What if I would completely become what I see? My Scottish family is very different than me, very different. What if I would start wearing just as much make up, start speaking english everywhere and decide to change my views on life?

My friends, family and acquaintances around me will not be knowing what is going on. What if somebody you know well all of a sudden completely changes? Will it raise questions or would it even be noticeable?

Laís Pontes is a photographer who made the project ‘Born Nowhere’. She changed her looks several times and put the photo’s on Facebook, asking people of they would want to react to what for kind of women they saw on the picture. 

What: A project about completely become someone you tend to have connections with because of DNA, but growing up completely unaware of each others life styles.

Why: It’s a bit of a social experiment. How other people react to change, but also a different culture within their own. For myself it’s also an experiment, what is it like to grow up with the full ‘Scottish experience’. My dad’s upbringing was different than my mom’s, even though it was the same period in time, same level of financial status, same responsibilities to school, church and work. Will it affect the way I would continu to live? 

How: Slowly changing key things in my appearance, wearing more make up and different clothes. Different music choices, changing the way I use social media and how much I use it. I hope especially through social media to see the reactions of my friends and family and use these within the project.

Requirements: 

- Social Media - Computer - Examples of Scottish girls my age - Screenshots

Finished Product: In the end I will combine the reactions and the imagery I placed on social media into an installation. I want to hang the created ‘me’ with the way I normally would profile myself on opposite sides of the room. Next to it the reactions it produced. Possible personal messages included. 

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My Family Concept 3 - Anthropological Documentary

I see my dads side of the family completely different as from my mothers side of the family. My mothers side of the family is very close, although that even feels as an understatement. Some of the family in Scotland I haven’t seen for more than 9 years, mainly because they can’t be really bothered to visit us and we had to keep going to Scotland, what wasn’t horrible, but very expensive.  Just two years ago we found each other through the way of social media. 

Social media doesn’t show who somebody really is, it gives an distorted picture of reality. My views of the family are therefore a bit to opinionated. So by giving them a second change, it would hopefully create a better understanding of why they live the way they live.  As inspiration and an open view to taking on a subject that you have your mind set to, is the book/work Phenomena by the photographers Peter Helles Eriksen, Tobias Selnaes Markussen and Sara Brincher Galbiati. They decided that they knew what people are like when they believed in aliens and extra-terrestrial life. As it became big in the news because their were leaked files, they wanted to see and indulge in the lives of people who believe there is such a thing as aliens. The book is made with an anthropologic study on the matter of the subject. I think that it would be interesting to use the same way of execution. 

What: An anthropologic documentary of my family in Scotland.

Why: To really understand how and why they live the way they live, I want to look at them from the outside, but slowly get closer to get a better understanding of who they are. I, myself, are to opinionated about what goes on, even though I barely know them. As it is a project not only for myself but the public, an open minded take on who they are seems the most logical and fair. 

How: By flying over there, not using their social media and film the process. Most importantly, going in completely blank and starting as a bystander. Sure enough, it will give a wide view of the family. It will consist in parts, most of the family live on their own, with their own stories and views of the family. By combining similarities, filming them when they see each other, it will make a family documentary of the Morrisons.   

Requirements: - Filming camera - Place to stay - Plane tickets Final product: As it will all be filmed, I hope to combine everything into an documentary. It will be made up in to different chapters, that will exist out of stories, observations and archive. 

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Boek: Phenomena

Sara Galbiati, Peter Helles Eriksen, Tobias Selnæs Markussen - Phenomena (2016)

https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/haunting-photographs-of-americas-ufo-believers

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Documentaire: Radio Kobanî

Radio Kobanî (2016) - Reber Dosky

Eén van de documentaires die mij het meest raakte. Een meisje van 20 die ondanks alles wat er gebeurd in de oorlog, radio maakt voor de mensen die nog dankbaar zijn te mogen leven. Ze informeert, entertaint en het belangrijkste ‘distracts’. Ze verteld over bominslagen, ze laat muzikanten optreden, spreekt rebellen leiders en allemaal omdat ze het belangrijk vind dat mensen weten wat er gebeurd, niet omdat ze verplicht wordt. Maar ze is pas 20, een jonge vrouw, behoort op school te kunnen zitten, te denken aan de toekomst. Dat is lastig, als je weet dat er ieder moment een bom zou kunnen vallen. 

Je ziet 2 kanten van het leven van het meisje in de documentaire, beide belangrijk over wat het zegt over haar (en over allen anderen in de oorlog). Nog steeds gaat ze naar vriendinnen, praat over jongens, roddelt en heeft het over de toekomst, maar daar staat de oorlog tegenover. 

Voor ons zeer onwerkelijk, zo’n oorlog, het ziet het op tv, je leest het in de krant en het komt voorbij op het internet. Misschien dat je nog een vluchteling tegenkomt op straat, maar dat weet je eigenlijk niet zeker, ze zien eruit zoals ieder ander. Zijn opgevoed, hebben zelfde soort kleding, maken net zoveel gebruik van een mobiele telefoon als iedereen tegenwoordig. Maar daar sluit het hoofdstuk oorlog zich voor ons eigenlijk wel af. 

Naast dat de documentaire prachtig mooi in beeld is gebracht, grijpt het de aandacht van de meesten. Het is zo shockerend, de vreugde van het beëindigen van iemands leven, het gooien van iemands hoofd naar de rest van zijn lichaam bij de rest van de lichamen waar kinderen nog rond rennen ook. 

Deze documentaire heb ik zo gezegd beleefd op het IDFA 2016. Na afloop was er de mogelijkheid om vragen te stellen aan de regisseur.  Ik was vooral benieuwd hoe het is om te vastleggen dat lichamen zo ‘normaaltjes’ worden opgeruimd. Vanwaar ook.  Hierop was zijn antwoord dat het onwerkelijk was, zijn camera vrouw had dan ook opgegeven, ze kon het niet aan. Wat begrijpelijk was, op het scherm was het al moeilijk te bekijken, laat staan dat je er naast staat en het vast probeert te leggen met een camera. Het voelt oneerbiedig. Maar regisseur Dosky heeft zelf de camera gepakt, hij moest en zou het vastleggen. Het moest gezien worden. Mensen heb shock nodig om te reageren, om in actie te komen en vooral, om te beseffen wat daar gebeurd, niet mag gebeuren. 

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Stedelijk Museum: JORDAN WOLFSON: MANIC / LOVE / (TRUTH / LOVE)

Colored sculpture (2016)  Het werk wat mij het meeste aansprak van Jordan Wolfson, was colored sculpture. Het werk bestaat uit een pop, een jongetje. De jongen hangt aan zware kettingen in een stalen raamwerk, zijn bewegingen aangestuurd door een computer. Hij wordt omhoog gehesen, naar achteren getrokken, zweeft rond en wordt weer tegen de vloer gesmeten. Soms probeert hij met zijn ogen contact te maken met het publiek. Het is heel indrukwekkend om te zien, in eerste oogopslag door de ruimte die het werk in neemt. Daarna wat het representeert. Een jongentje dat nergens heen kan omdat het vast zit, het wordt gecontroleerd door de kettingen, neergesmeten, verhangen. Het moet dansen terwijl mensen kijken. Het werk zorgt voor frustratie, waar staat het voor, worden wij als mens gecontroleerd? Zijn wij onderdeel van een poppenkast? Maar het jongetje is ook niet bepaald uitnodigt, een nare gezicht uitdrukking, ogen die je zeer indringend aan kunnen kijken.  Het werk emotioneert en creëert vragen, interessante vragen.  Vanaf februari is het volgende deel te zien Truth/Love, waarbij een ander werk waar gebruikt is gemaakt van animatronics. Omdat ik niet veel vaker het gebruik van robots in de kunst heb gezien en dat wat ik nu gezien heb van Wolfson, ben ik zeker van plan om naar deel II te gaan van deze tentoonstelling.

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My Family Concept 2 - Fathers side

My father is a bystander of what happens with his family. He tries to connect them through phoning them and setting my nephew Robert up to the task to keep in touch with his uncle, so he won’t get to lonely.  Seeing as this will be only viewed from one point, Richard billinghams ‘Ray’, comes to mind. He photographed his own father with a camera he bought on credit, just to see how it would work out. Maybe the irony speaks to me the most, he photographed his dad, mine is the one who gives us a view on his family.

Inspiration: 

Richard Billinghams - Ray

What: My fathers side to what is happening in Scotland and how he sees his family. 

Why: My dad seems to be the only reasonable one of the entire family. Seeing as he is trying to keep the family together. He also has a stable relationship, a job and good contact with his kids. The rest doesn’t, might be harsh, but the truth. The view that my father has on the family is hopeful but sad, he knows that his brother just had the worst possible upbringing and is to easy to influence. This makes him an easy victim. And his sister is possibly having an even harder time, she lost her husband of more than 25 years and already has a new boyfriend. My cousins lost their dad but are beginning to lose their mom to the new boyfriend. My dad is like the glue. So seeing as he is so important, his views are just as important and should give an honest look into the family. How: I figure it begins with the stories of when he was still there. So it will include archive material. What it was like growing up together, the divorce of his parents, both of them beginning new relationships,going out the house, passing of his mom and slowly growing apart after he left to leave with my mother. After that how it changed when growing up and having an own family, till how it is now. Like a timeline, from my fathers view, interpreted by me. As the story develops, the next step would be to go to the family together and document the memories from the past what it is like now. Just as the family. I would be using an analog 4x5 camera, as I figure it would with the aesthetic of Scotland and the way of living.  Requirements:  - Archive pictures - Flight + Stay Scotland - 4x5 Camera - Film - Way of traveling around

Final product: This could end up in several possible ways, so combining an installation with a book makes the amount of material easier to show. The booklet is mainly based of the installation but will contain more material and more texts. The installation will exist out of two parts, past and now. Both by my dad, there will be repetition, but through time. 

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My Family Concept 1 - Social Media

The social media behaviour of my family is weird, to say the least, but it gives me a small look, probably very altered though, in their lives. 

Thinking of social media works, the first photographer that comes to mind is Jan Dirk van der Burg. He decided to follow several unknown people on twitter and made books of all that they tweeted. 

http://www.jandirk.com/tweetbundels.html

What: My family’s social media behaviour

Why: they put everything they find important on facebook. They tend to get in contact with each other through facebook aswel. Especially my uncle uses facebook to contact his sister, my aunt, on her main facebook for everybody to see. The mistakes he makes by not completely understanding how facebook works makes up for a bit of humor, but has an other side to the story aswel. As my uncle has a diagnosed depression, the fact he keeps in contact through facebook makes him a little less disconnected from the rest of the world.

How: By making a complete overview of what they post on facebook. As I feel it should be only my family, I want to get rid of comments of other people and only show how the rest of the family reacts to what the other posts on social media. Seeing as my family also keeps in contact with each other through using social media, I feel that that should be highlighted in the project. I’m going to include the connection with my brother and sister they have aswel in the project. Only where they reacted on. In this project there will be no use of the camera, only screenshots that might be edited to only show my family’s connections.  Requirements:  - Computer  - Social media accounts - Screenshots - Paper for booklets

Finished product: The finished product will be a booklet, per family member. The booklets will have repetion as paths cross in the project. There will be a total of 7 booklets, my granddad Ian (that will include the posts of my so called new ‘granny’, as he uses her facebook sometimes to communicate with us.), my uncle Gary, my aunt Elaine, my uncle Rab (His actual name is Robert. Also he did pass away in april last year, but he did keep in contact with us aswel and he will always be family to us.), my nephew Robert, my niece Holly and my niece Rebecca. The relationships they have, possibly new family members, will be included in each booklet as an external smaller booklet. 

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Richard Billingham