FRP - Other
Other resources for my Fully Realized Project – project pitch, sketch draft, unused photographs.
Project Pitch
Genre: Photo essay
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Context/conversation: Taken from the memories I have of me and my grandfather, with the context of found photos provided by my mom, addressing the conversation of love and grief, and how these memories helped me process and cherish these memories and my family, and our unique way of loving.
Audience(s): My family, my grandfather. Audience invoked is anyone who has experienced any kind of grief, anyone interested in discussing and reframing grief and love in their multiple forms.
Why have you chosen this direction? (What about your experiment sequence and class discussions led you here?): The second experiment I did in the form of a photo essay has given me a lot of materials to work with, and I find that I can draw my emotions best if I’m working in conjunction with the provided photos. I also think it’s a really interesting way to supplement conversations surrounding more emotional themes like love and grief without being too direct, which doesn’t work well with the message I’m trying to convey. I was also inspired by our class with Dave Karczynski on photo essays, and I would love to dabble more in the craft to challenge myself in a format I’m unfamiliar with but has so much potential.
Why/how are these choices appropriate for your rhetorical situation? Answer in terms of audience and community—who are you hoping to reach, and how does this genre provide an appropriate “in” for them? Photo essays can tell multiple stories packed in one, and since my theme covers so many different aspects of life, I want to be able to focus on a central conversation but still have other themes being able to be read between the lines, and nothing to get lost along the way. The photos I picked will be able to vocalize some parts of what I’m proud of, of what I cherish the most in my relationship with my grandfather, and will help me unpack this theme in a structured but still emotionally impactful way. The visualization along with words in parallel/supplement will hopefully reach the audience in a more tactile, engaging manner, thus allowing for a more emotional viewing but also helping the message come across more clearly.
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Where would you publish this piece in order for your audience to find it? Think real world, here! This piece can be published in a blog or as a journal article on sites that highlight the arts of the photo essay or creative nonfiction projects.
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What do you still need to understand, learn, learn how to do in order to fully-realize your project? (This is where the reading list comes in--what research have you done, and what’s left to do? This doesn’t need to be extensive, but you should be pushing your thought and understanding further with this project than you’ve gone before.) The most important thing I need to work toward is to write with the photos in a way that doesn’t make my writing or the photos feel redundant, to tell stories and inner narratives in parallel but not confusing. I need to refine my piece to tread the line between telling too much or telling too little, in order to reach the level of subtlety and impact desired. I’m also working with limited materials on photojournalism on found photos.
Reading/resource list:
https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/990003008670106381?query=chinese+encounters&utm_source=lib-home
https://photo.journalism.cuny.edu/course-material/
https://sites.dwrl.utexas.edu/rhetoric-of-food/2017/03/28/genre-conventions-of-photo-essays/
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-thousand-words-writing-from-photographs
https://cphmag.com/how-to-write/
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/photography-culture/be-it-light-or-shadow-photog
raphy-and-essay
Sketch Draft
Additional Photographs
