Val Williams

These days all sorts of things are happening within and around family, gay father or son. lesbian mother or daughter, divorce, deaths, test tube babies, rape, violence, loneliness, marriage etc.
Creating your scene for the family portrait can question the real family and what they are truly like. similar to my family, if we were to take a family image it would contain my mother, sister, mothers partner and myself. Little would people no that the man in the image is not my real father and that i also have a younger brother who is currently stuck with my real father.
Images can portray many different aspects, it depends on how you view it.

assignment 1 Q3

Bill Jay’s chapter titled “Past Perfect” has a very strong case and argument towards the relevance of the history of photography. Before reading Bill’s chapter I personally wasn’t to interested or excited to learn about the history of photography and had always wondered is it really relevant to be learning the history?. Today I now understand why it is relevant and why we do learn about the history of photography. I agree with bill when he say’s “Think of a boat on an uncharted sea out of sight of land. One way to be sure you are not sailing in circles is to drop buoys over the edge. By looking back at these ‘pasts’ you can plot a more forward-looking future.”
Like Bill states saying history is irrelevant is like saying your birth date, time etc is irrelevant. If we had not learnt about the history of photography, then our knowledge of photography and cameras may not be as strong as it is today. I 100 percent agree with Bill’s arguments and believe that the history of not only photography but all history of this world is extremely important to each and every one of us.


Corinne Stevie Brigden.

Assignment 1

I Have selected an image/photograph of my family at my year 6 confirmation.
(image will be scanned and up soon)


This image has me (in the white dress) my little brother and sister and my parents. This image means everything to me. It is the last time that my family was all together as one before the final separation of my parents and before i grew up and moved to Canberra.
This photograph indicates the relationships within and among my family. The day this image was taken was the happiest day for me as a child, even thou i knew my parents were having trouble and i was old enough to understand I was happy that they could become one again for me and my special day. This image was given to me by my mother when i moved out of home to Canberra, it has for ever been in my picture frame that my father gave me one Christmas. The image itself is extremely important because it captured the day/moment that i will remember for a life time to come. To have images of such events and people that occurred in your life is something that is cherished by millions across the world.
words cant describe that day, yet that image defiantly does.