Preliminary exercise

This day involved a supermarket shop as well as photographing the everyday images at home. I went for a walk around the village and was surprised by the amount of images I found. The images I drove past at bus stops etc are not recorded.

I was surprised at the number of signs outside the co-op. Trip hazard as well as advertising. It is opposite a Tesco so they are making a point with the images in the window as well as outside the shop. The housing estate advertises new houses which don't look like this.

I thought I would be bombarded by images. The amount of images (especially the unrecorded ones) is surprising and it is no wonder we get image blind at times. Most of the images are advertising. I stopped reading the online articles in the local newspaper because of the number of adverts.  Couple this with social media and I  wonder how the photographer gets their work seen. Thinking back to an earlier exercise in Landscape, perhaps one of the advantages of attending a gallery exhibition is that the viewer has space to look at specific work. It becomes an event rather than a bombardment. I thought Facebook had a good idea when I found I could save articles. However, my saved list became longer as I didn't have the space to read it all.