When planning my next few weeks I wrote that I wanted to buy a role of film and spend a couple of days taking pictures specifically for this project. I bought the roll of film, but have since decided that I should instead source out photos from my existing ones, my scans of my mum's photos, and the Lomography website. I decided on this because taking photos next week as well as getting them developed would be an unnecessary waste of time. Furthermore, I think that the publication should be authentic - and this would be achieved by using existing photos rather than taking ones specifically for it. Lomography is about capturing your surroundings and the rules are to prompt people to have fun, so taking some photos with the motive of 'they're going to go in a book' wouldn't be authentic.
With the ten rules in mind I went through all of my photos, my mums, and a large part of the Lomography website which has thousands of photos uploaded to it. I picked out ones that I like and that I think apply to certain rules and categorized them. I'm really happy with the selection that I've picked as looking through them they all seem to visually work together - though they will probably still need editing down to a smaller amount. Also, I am going to look at the photos for each category and write key words so that when it comes to designing the layout of the publication, I can refer to these.
Rule 1: Take your camera everywhere you go
Travel, blue skies, open space, structure, architecture, landmarks, holidays
High contrast, light and dark, opposites, adaptable, negative space, over exposed, sunlight
Rule 3: Lomography is not an interference in your life, but a part of it
intimate, happiness, small, close, gentle
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