Make a list of some aspects of your personality that make you unique. Start taking a few pictures that could begin to express this. How could you develop this into a body of work? 

This exercise is being done during the times of COVID-19 and the constraints that this places on being outdoors – namely one can only go outside for a daily exercise, shopping, or work if it cannot be done from home – which mine can.  This limits my ability to take photographs outside so I have chosen to describe how I might express things rather than show actual images.

Some aspects of my character that I thought of doing this exercise are:

• I am essentially introvert in character, drawing energy from rest rather than social contact.  However, once in an isolated situation such as the present day, I do crave social contact of going out .  This is a paradox that could somehow be shown. The image below (which I would light much better for a formal presentation might show some kind of wanting to go out but not being able to but I think it would need others to tell a fuller story.

• I enjoy space, so country walks are great for me.  I could give an insight into the country walks that I do for my daily exercise.

• I suffer from ochlophobia, an irrational fear of crowds.  I did an assignment on this during my study for Context and Narrative which is linked to here. (http://can.tonys-view.com/assignment-2-final-submission/).   I could develop this further, given that this fear is heightened further at the moment due to COVID-19.  Maybe a set of images could combine with those of the walks – at the moment, when somebody comes the other way on a walk, it is scary for me! Something like the image below might tell the story but again, it would need other images (and this one is shot into the sun but in times of social isolation, other people are taking great exception to posing for images).

• At the moment I spend all day every work day on web based conference calls.  This is exhausting for me so by the end of the day I am totally worn out.

This is an exercise that I can add to over time and would serve as a useful source of inspiration for future projects.