Contact Sheets: Catherine Banks

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• Very useful advice. Thanks Jesse. And great that Catherine’s work on this project gets some publicity….it is an excellent piece of work.

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• Interesting as I have only tended to include such images in my learning log but I think some students include prints of contact sheets in the assessment submissions for the purpose Jesse outlines.

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• Thanks for this post about Catherine’s work, I found the way she describes her editing process for her assignments in her blog always really interesting.
  Nice to see your work too Matt!

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• Excellent advice. Thanks Jesse. Well done Catherine!

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  • Agreed!

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• Thanks for your comments everyone. I hadn’t produced contact sheets before I started People & Place but my tutor asked for them in digital form for the whole process and also printed (the ones after initial selection). What was interesting was that he sometimes pointed towards ones I’d excluded earlier on and also, in the last two Assignments, suggested alternative edits for a final selection. The latter, of course, led to me needing to do rethinks, discussing the variations in my ‘response to tutor feedback, and having to decide further amendments. I’ve learned so much from doing that.

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• It has been fascinating to watch this series develop and to see the different edits and variations, and it is great to see the work recognised here.
  The reflection on contact sheets is very interesting. The Parr/Ray-Jones exhibition at the Science Museum includes some newly-exhibited Ray-Jones work, consisting of a selection made by Martin Parr from Ray-Jones’s negatives. It also includes a wall of contact prints so you can see how Ray-Jones developed his themes – finding a few points of interest/ subjects and following them, recomposing in various ways. The contact sheets are interesting also because there is also an opportunity for people to make their own mental edits, and to reflect on how the selected images compare with the surrounding ones. How will that work in the future with the digital archive, one wonders?

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  • One can mimic film practice with digital if one is aware of it and its efficacies. Those who’ve come to photography through digital are offered a different paradigm that has a larger element of convenience.

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