20200127-Project 1 Telling a story (exercise)

In this exercise, we are asked to read Bryony Campbells Dad project and the photo of the Country Doctor. How I have interpreted the two is merely from the images and the short sharp titles. I have to say they have some heavy emotional aspects to them, particular the images of the dying father.

I have not had to witness this, but have seen friends die in places I do not wish people to know about nor will I go into details. Its, not something I wish to repeat.

• How does Bryony Campbell’s The Dad Project compare with Country Doctor?
  • From my perspective, Campbell’s Dad Project holds greater emotion within the pictures with a personal feel to them, although she is documenting the death of father in what I think is extremely brave. I’m not sure I could handle that. It is a beautiful way of remembering your father. Personally, I would prefer to remember my dad how he was not how you remember his last moments.
  • The pictures show two sides of emotion I believe. The physical and the mental-emotional sides. Seeing pictures like that, for me hit home to how lucky I am. Both my parents are still alive and well. Had this been my story I’m not sure I could find the right way of constructing such a strong story. I’m almost feeling like I didn’t want to know the outcome. However from the opening images shown you can work out what the outcome is. If you know what certain emblems on the paperwork are then you know what it is all about.

    

    

  • The above two images stand out as the strongest and most powerful. (lump in throat moment). Knowing what the Marie Claire Cancer care is and what is does speaks volumes. The second image of her holding her dad’s hand in such a cold, yellow state, you know exactly what has happened. When you have held the hand of a dying/dead person and seen death you know the exact emotion what is going through the person and what she is trying to capture and tell. Losing anyone is hard and emotional.
  • The Country Doctor for me is less emotional personally. But by documenting the life of what the doctor is doing its fairly similar to the above, less emotional personally without confusing the two. Yes, both stories show different sides, but both show areas where you see both sides of the story as mentioned above physical and mental emotions. 
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  • The above image resonates more with me than the others, just through seeing friends with leg amputations and how they have coped with them.
• What do you think she means by ‘an ending without an ending’?
  • Ending without ending….. I believe she knew the ending without having to know it. Having the understanding that the time will come without knowing when that time is. Taking that as a project was her ending to this. By documenting the story she knows the end without having it as the end. It may sound like nonsense but I think I understand what it is she writes.

Bibliography

B. (n.d.). The Dad Project – Briony Campbell | Photography & Film. Retrieved January 27, 2020, from http://www.brionycampbell.com/projects/the-dad-project/ {assesed 27 Jan 2020}
(n.d.). https://time.com/3456085/w-eugene-smiths-landmark-photo-essay-country-doctor/. Retrieved January 27, 2020, from https://time.com/3456085/w-eugene-smiths-landmark-photo-essay-country-doctor/{assesed 27 Jan 2020}

Illustrations

Fig 1 Welcome to the end. The Dad Project – Briony Campbell | Photography & Film. Retrieved January 27, 2020, from http://www.brionycampbell.com/projects/the-dad-project/ {assesed 27 Jan 2020}

Fig 2 Me and Dad 25th August 2009. The Dad Project – Briony Campbell | Photography & Film. Retrieved January 27, 2020, from http://www.brionycampbell.com/projects/the-dad-project/ {assesed 27 Jan 2020}

Fig 3 Dr. Ceriani examines his handiwork after the partial amputation of a patient’s leg, Kremmling, Co… ://time.com/3456085/w-eugene-smiths-landmark-photo-essay-country-doctor/. Retrieved January 27, 2020, from https://time.com/3456085/w-eugene-smiths-landmark-photo-essay-country-doctor/{assesed 27 Jan 2020}