{"id":290,"date":"2023-02-02T09:46:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T09:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/?p=290"},"modified":"2023-03-02T22:34:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T22:34:17","slug":"thoughts-on-project-novus-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/thoughts-on-project-novus-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on project Novus 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

So we’ve had a general group discussion on what our brief is going to be for this semester. I had a few ideas on my list but mainly ran with the one on my dad who has dementia.<\/p>\n

This is still an ongoing thought mainly because I’m just a little unsure of how to present it and what angle to put on the narrative. Do I look at dementia through my dad’s eyes? or from my and my sister’s point of view as his carers?<\/p>\n

On the whole dad is amenable and happy in his own little world.\u00a0 We have had brief periods of disagreements but fortunately they haven’t lasted.<\/p>\n

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The conflict I have is that when I’m ‘in the moment’ of each day of caring duties I am so focussed on the issues of this horrid disease and how it affects us all the last thing I feel like doing is taking photographs!<\/p>\n

The sad irony is that dad was always<\/em> an amateur photographer and even up until the dementia took hold a few years back was Treasurer of the Stoke on Trent Camera Club, having already been the Chairman! He still retains a very simple point and shoot Lumix camera but when I scroll through the images they are mainly of the floor, his lap or the ceiling, and occasionally he captures the Robin on the bird table!<\/p>\n

One of the funniest thing dad said to me recently when I took out the Nikon D90 is ‘what are you doing with a camera like that?’\u00a0 The emphasis being on ‘you’ as though I’m incapable of operating it, or it’s far too an expensive item for me to be in charge of! When I challenged him he just said ‘oh I just wondered that’s all’.<\/p>\n

He did call me a few months back in the summer to say he’d seen the funniest thing ever on the way to the shop [he can take the short walk there and back relatively safely].\u00a0 ‘Oh what was that then dad?’\u00a0 I enquired,\u00a0 ‘ Well the bus came around the corner and there was a woman<\/em> driving it’?! ‘Well I’ve never<\/em> seen that before’ he said.\u00a0 Holding back the laughter I replied ‘Never dad?\u00a0 are you sure? you know they let\u00a0women\u00a0<\/em>do ALL sorts of things now!!’\u00a0 He was quite bemused by it, and I still laugh about it now.<\/p>\n

How do I capture those moments in a photograph? Hmmm… there’s a lot to think about.<\/p>\n

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On the subject of picking an area to research for this semester…did a little exercise at home to try and narrow down my choices!<\/p>\n

I listed the areas of photography I could think about first,\u00a0 I then gave them scores out of 10 for how much I liked them! Then I gave them scores out of 10 for how easily I could access the practice and research of them.\u00a0 Well it narrowed it down a bit, and I may have weighted the scores in my favour a tad! But anyway I do have a smaller list now, but no firm decision … oh dear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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