Research-Howard Snowden

Howard Snowden is one of my college photography tutors and is one of my main inspiration's for this project. Howard created alot of work based around his mother. One serise of images documented him taking his mother's ashes to burried. He documented the different points in the journey, from being at home with a plant for his mum, to the car ride to the grave site. I really liked how personal his work was and I wanted to base my work around something as personal as this. I thought, from seeing Howard's work, that I could create something similar based around my grandmother. I could create a serise of images based around my childhood and my memories with my grandma.

Howard showed us another set of his images based around his mother where he took images of her empty house. Around the time of being shown these images my grandma had jusg been moved in to a care home. I thought that it would be nice to record her home,  as she kept it and the way I remember it, before everything changed.

In Howard's work I like how he draws on personal matters such as his mothers death. By doing this he creates alot of emotion in his work, which I something I want in my own work. The way in which be photographs also makes his work very personal. For example the images of his mothers house, to anybody unknowing looking at them they would just look like pictures of an empty room. To him these pictures of these empty rooms hold alot of memories, both of his mother and his childhood. This us the format that I want to add into my own images, personal meanings and memories.