Over the Christmas break, my work has shifted from being fashion and portrait based, to documentary and still life. I have been visiting the town of Blackpool a lot, and after reading a book looking into iconic Blackpool hotels, I decided to develop a photographic series looking into the history of the buildings and where they are now. I was shocked to find that 90% of the iconic hotels were closed down, either for the season or forever. A lot of the buildings toward the Central Pier were under demolition, due to the roof collapsing in what seemed to be high winds, and they did not have the money to repair. It seems sad for me that something that represents a town so iconically, is being taken over by the "monsters" of the hotel industry such as Travelodge, Premier Inn and Ibis. I have been documenting this shift in hotels using my 35mm Canon film camera, and colour film, as the feel and look of film suits the towns meaning much better than digital. Therefore, I have developed my PDP to fit with this, and decided to develop and refine my film photography, and research more into the downfall of the local hotel industry. I have also expanded my PDP to cover alternative areas, or to expand on the ones previously included in my older PDP.
I still am interested in fashion and portraiture photography, but at the moment I am concentrating on my new passion of film photography, as well as my volunteering and teaching roles and my final major project. I plan to get these film photographs of Blackpool exhibited in either a group exhibition or a solo exhibition, hopefully by the end of 2015.
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