A-Z

A-Z This is a project that I’m planning for next year. It involves taking photos of images that represent the letters of the alphabet, which can be done in three different ways: Letter: Firstly, you can simply capture images of letters that you see about. This will open your eyes to the world around you and encourage you see in a more photographic way. Object: Instead of seeing a physical letter on a sign, look for objects that represent the same shape as the letter that you’re trying to capture such as an s-shape in a river. This is slightly more difficult but will have more positive effects as you you’re forced to look a little deeper into what you see around you. Action: Rather than looking for a physical letter, look for an action that represents one. This sounds easier than the other two – all you have to do is think of 26 actions – but it’s really not. Not only do you have to find these naturally occurring actions but you they need to be easily recognised by anyone looking at the image too. If you’re looking to start an A-Z project, I would suggest the object one first, perhaps once a week for the first half of the year, and then the action one second. That way, by the end of the year, you have a images to match up to each other, and a point of comparison for each. The same project can also be done with numbers.