Strategy – Dear Dad.

Dear Dad is the name of my Strategy project for Uni. I am not going to upload what it is about as it has become a very personal project and it has helped me grieve about my Dads passing.

Front Cover of Book.

But when it comes through this will be the front cover of it.

Grid Update

Pentwyn/ Cardiff.
I decided to scan in all my negatives before christmas, so there won’t be a huge rush.
120 film- 6 x 4.5
The South West School of Non-Destructive Testing
The idea ended up just being the machines the MTD department use regularly.

Liquid Penetrant Testing under UV light

Alternative set-up for radiography

X-RAY

X-Ray Set Up for the Ring of an Areoplane Engine. Upside Down.

The Comet 320 machine, Controls the XRAY machine.

Another Alternative version of the Comet 320. Older Version.

Liquid Penetrant Testing Process- Fluorescent Penetrant.

Liquid Penetrant Testing Process. Dry Powder Developer.

Liquid Penetrant Testing Process- UV Light Lamp

UV Magnetic Particle Inspection, Looks for defects in metals.

Control for the Magnetic Particle Inspection Machine.

A De-Magnetisation unit after using the Magnetic Particle Inspection Machine.

More to come….

Strategy Project.

For my Strategy Project I wanted to take photographs in hospices for Cancer Charities and take photographs of their support rooms and meeting rooms, mainly to help raise awareness for these type of meetings. I think it would be a very interesting and powerful project but the problem I am having is getting Access, One Cancer charity has said they will speak to their manager to see if it is okay, So Whilst I am getting ‘Access’ i thought of a plan ‘B’.

Plan ‘B’ would be a personal project. Before my Dad passed away he left aload of undeveloped films and a couple of disposable cameras, I said to him that when I go back to uni i will process them for him, True to my word I have processed 8/10 films, two films didn’t develop properly due to being far too old. I will be processing the other two tomorrow morning (04/11/09). The negatives show basically my Dads holidays with his “other family” , So my idea sprung to be called “My Dads Other Family” .

I think it would be a strange yet emotional project due to recent losses, strange as I won’t be actually taking any photographs just printing them out in the colour darkroom and scratching the negatives where needs be, to suit my idea.

This photograph is for example. This is my father with his other family, I think this is in India one time. My Dad took his other family on Holiday a lot.

I think this project will let me into my Dads life when my brothers and I weren’t apart of it.  It may become about my jealously and my longing to have my childhood with my Dad and to see him again, but it will mainly be my Dad and his other family!