EXTENDED: INTERNAL COLLAB CONTEXT

Zak and I thought that since we were going to create three books with three photographers work, we had to have some form of contextual link between the three. This work couldn't just showcase random content without any rationale. To do this, we brainstormed a bunch of  topics based upon the theme of 'things that come in threes'. Here is a brief list of what we came up with.

• RGB
• Primary colours
• Heaven, Hell, Limbo
• Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil
• Ready, aim, fire
• Small, medium, large
• Third time lucky
• 3 dimensions
• Rock, paper, scissors
• Good, bad, ugly
• Father, son, holy spirit
• 666
• 333

After breaking down the meanings behind some of these topics, we narrowed our search down to 'heaven, hell, holy spirit' and 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'. After some discussion we decided that perhaps the first options could end up being too controversial given the fact we'd have so many people involved. Instead of taking that risk, we went with the theme 'hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil'. We felt that this already had a very strong visual presence within each individual topic and could be experimented with very well within the content being shot, how it was photographer/modelled, location etc. 

We then combined some research into the topic to brief our photographers with to help them understand how open ended or literal they could be with the topic. The term 'hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil' comes from a Buddhist sculpture of three monkeys performing these actions with their hands, created in 8th century Japan. The 'three wise monkeys' are also known by their individual names as Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwazaru. The photographers we have chosen could interpret this however they like, this is just an example about the themes heritage that could perhaps play into the project.

This small piece of research would go towards our presentation brief for the photographers.