Revised Proposal Idea For My Negotiated Major Photographic Project

It has been really difficult for me to come to the realisation that the initially proposed idea for my Negotiated Major Photographic Project is now not going to work.

Photographic and documenting the life-cycle of a butterfly just isn't going to be possible in the timeframe that I have because of the extreme weather that we have had in the Uk so far this year.

I have always been absolutely fascinated with the character of insects and their fascinating detail.

This is the direction that I am now going to move my project towards.

My Revised Proposal.

I propose to take a series of very highly detailed photographs of insects using macro-photography and focus-stacking techniques.

The aim of this body of work is to challenge the conventional view and perspective that we have of insects from the point of view of being a human being.

As we are infinitely greater in size, we always observe the insect world from above and it is very rare that we are afforded the opportunity to observe an insect ''face-to-face'' or at ''eye-level''.

Both physically in terms of the angles that the images are captured and displayed from but also mentally, in terms of the way we have the traditional perception of being much bigger than an insect.

I intend to produce a series of ''Insect Portraits'' using the same photographic  techniques as I would use to capture a photographic portrait of a person in a studio.

These portrait images will be captured using a very high level of detail that will give me the opportunity to print them out at such a size as to make them comparable in scale to a portrait of a human being.

From my initial test of using the focus-stacking technique which I have never used before this project, the initial results have yielded significantly more accurate and sharply-detailed insect image that I have ever produced in the past.

I also propose to exhibit these images at eye-level in an exhibition almost as if the viewer were engaging with another person.

I think that by printing these at either A3 or A2, this will have the desired effect.

I want to be able to provoke a strong reaction through this body of work.

I also want to produce another book similar to my ''Another World'' book project that I undertook in the first year.

This book has made an incredible impression wherever I have presented it in the past and I think that a bigger version of these ''Insect Portraits'' would be a very effective means of communicating my work.