Tales of Gloucestershire - Shannon Jenson, A Long Walk

After a class review of some of the images I had taken of my room, I came up with even more idea on how I could shoot and display this project. Below are a few of the test shots I did of my room:

When looking at these photos, a few of my class live in the same halls as me, Pitville, and said that photographing the bookshelves could be quite interesting because everyone has the same one but they way that they would of made decorated it would be different for everyone.
After some more research, I found a photographer called Shannon Jenson. She travelled to the South Sudan, in May to July 2012 she produced a 21 image series called 'A Long Walk'. The images are of the shoes that the refugees had worn to escape their homes and walked for day to get to somewhere 'safe'. Some of the photos in her series were shown as a grid of 12 images which were all shot using a north facing wall so that the exposure and lighting is the same for all images, they also then all have the same crop, and background which makes them very striking and emotional to look at. Below are those images from her series,

 The above image is of the shoes worn by those who had walked from the Blue Nite State to the South Sudan in May to June of 2012. Many had walked for days and days to get here and these were all they had to wear on their feet.

 These are the shoes of some of the children that were aged 10 or younger, one pair belonging to Musa Shep who was 2 years old, who travelled for 20 days with his family to get to the Sudan.

 An assortment of sandals worn by men and woman of all ages.

 Shoes of the men and woman over the age of 50. Jensen shows an assortment of different shoe and sandals worn, and walked for day in shoes.

'Incredible array of worn-down, ill-fitting, and jerry rigged shoes form a silent testimony to the arduous nature of their journey, as well as the persistence and ingenuity of the individuals who served it.'

http://shannon-jensen.com/#/1/

This gave me inspiration on how I could set out my images and shoot them. Using the bookshelves in our hall bedrooms, my idea is too shoot them all in the same lighting and the same crop so that it shows the individuality of each student, and I can print them using the same method as Jenson, as a grid.