Project 3 - Datagraphy

Practice Weekly:

I decided to take a photo of each meal I had for a few days to gather data on what type of food I tend to eat as a student and also what I had bought to eat for that week. I ate a lot of bread and drank a lot of tea and coffee and also had tomato juice for a while.

Dinner

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Breakfast

Lunch

Project Details: Sociology

Definition:
- The study of the development, organization, functioning, and classification of human societies.

Project Summary:

- I am using sociology as a guide into my investigation of gathering data, in the form of photographs, to visualise what it is like to live the in the capital city of New Zealand in the everyday. The information that I had collected, includes the social environment, relationships and behaviour of human beings, as well as expressing an insight into and a depiction of the cohesion between the structure and culture of a society with the surrounding environment. This knowledge is then sorted into 2 relative categories creatively, for easier understanding through capturing photos of the people and art structures around the city.

Test images:

Capturing images in populated areas to best simulate the variety of culture that give the city character.

Capturing images of structures/art work that gives the city a visual representation of its culture.

Final Images:

The possibilities for this last project was nearly endless and so I struggled to find an “ology” that I am interested in. I thought about doing a lot of different ones like numerology, cryptology, morphology and even tribology. I finally settled on sociology. This was because I liked the idea of the representation of photos as data to express an idea/culture of a society to its audience. There were many thing subcategories I could have gone into as well. I settled on finding out what we do, who we are and how we live socially and how the surroundings/environment shows and represents the people that live there through art/structures. I feel that I could have gone deeper into a single subject and developed that but felt that I needed to show it more as a whole, thus the title.