Personal space frist ideas

Edward T Hall frist came up with the idea of personal space, and created a set of messaubal distances between people as they interact depending on the connection between the people, this in what i entend to show. i want to find away of photographing these distances.

I think personal space is oftern seen as somthing that is complety personal i want to prove it can be subjective depending on the people around you for instance you would be happer to be closer to a close friend than a stranger on the street

I can show this by getting people off the street all with different relationships and getting them to walk towards each other and then telling them to stop when their start to feel uncontable close.


another idea i have i think is more of an interesting one but for the length of this project i don't know if its very viable i want to denie people of their personal space. for this i will have to get about 30 people have them in a tite square in a wide open space

Halifax advert

this is in affect what i would like to achieve with my image i think i couldn't do it on such a scale, im not to sure if its that much of a viable idea for this short project as i would be looking of doing a searse of this on different locations i do think the affect works and in a more regul square it would look more impressive. but this is an example of what i would like to shoot. haveing lots of space ware they could go but they are dening them self of any personal space at tall.

Extre Gum
i really like the play on personal space in this advert I think it works well to get the point across.

I think the hole advert was really well shot its an example ware personal space is complety enoued and its not cared about.

what i need to do

Just spoke with Sarah and i think she liked both my ideas and we agreed the best one to take up would be my frist about how publick space is subjective. I am aloud to use students for this project as well as getting people off the street. i need to find a location???
for it to work well i need to shoot at one spot and not change anything with the framing so then the diffances of ware each person is becomes more apparent.
I want it to be in a bussy punlick space but some ware, ware i can take these images with out people walking in the back round.

so next i think i will have to do a recky and find a suitable location i think i know a posibal place just up from peair.

need to be able to get these people down to the spot so i dont want it that far from college too.

i want about 10 images at lest so i need to get 20 people to come down



Frist Shootthis is the final out come from my shoot i did ask alot of people to come down but i found a number just let me down. so i ended up having to ask more people than i first expected.
their are a few problems with the image i found it harder for people to be happy to help if their were alone and they wernt really happy walking towards a person.
also theirs a big change within the light from the nice light with the strong shadows at the bottom to the much darker images at the top. if i reshoot i think i will tyr and get their at noon and be shooting till 2 after then i feel the light may be to dark. i think together the images work well and im really happy with some ware the people embrased each other. I do think i needed to get some more people who didnt know each other to do it

Favort images


these are my favort images that i have used for this project and i likes these images because i think the older groups of people seemed to embrace each other to an extent with out being ask to with i think shows that they are really coftable with each other. as apose to the only one ware i had people who dont know each other worked out well to i think it intresting to see how people feel diffent about personal space and some are happer to be closer than others. i think i need to shoot needed to shoot more for this project and to change the location having the peir in the image adds conertations of the sea side then some people could read that as a sign for somthing that i dont want. i think i will need to find a blank location with nothing in the image to read other than people and the space betwen them. but i do need to keep it in a farly bussy place so then i am able to get people off the street to modle for me.

i did tyr to reshoot for the project but i have lost the images to be honist wich isnt too cool but the images wernt very good to be honist it just didnt work at tall i moved a bit further down from ware i shot before and i couldnt get enouth people to come i think it was out of season and it just wasnt bussy enouth also i had some problem with the light again it just took to long to get people