So the photo-book begins… and like usual I have no idea what I can do my project around. I wanted to do a concept which was interesting to create but also I felt that, as this was my last project and would be created into a book I needed the theme to be strong and satisfying. My starting points were to play around with the concept of fear in some way. However as I researched into fear and how it is usually represented in photography I found a repetitive theme of the same concept being created and, despite that these can be effective I wanted to face more of a challenge.
However then I begun to think about the unusual fears that some people suffered with everyday. These ideas included Cacophobia, which is the fear of ugliness which I thought would be really fun to do but I would need too many models which I would not have access too, Hippopotomentroses which is the fear of long words and this was interesting as I wanted to do a almost parody theme in the book of ‘silly’ fears and then Allodoxaphobia which is the fear of opinions which I felt was quite an open phobia which allowed me freedom to take the concept into a variety of ways.
For a week I wanted to revolve my book around Panophobia which was the fear of the next second. I was thinking that I would do a whole theme about clocks or the difference of the one second where the book would consist of a narrative. The narrative would be one person stood in one scene with nothing surrounding them and then in the following images objects and people would be added to the first empty scene to create a different feel to the image all together. This was meant to show how anything could change in a matter of one second.
However the more I begun to plan how to take these images the more it seems impractical and I realized I needed to come back down to earth. And this was when I finally decided to stick with one of my earlier ideas of Allodoxaphobia- the fear of opinions. This way I was free to take the concept in whatever way I wanted too.
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