FMP Project Idea

After a period of consideration as to what to do for this FMP and I guess more specifically what central theme I wanted to work around, I have settled on a subject. It has stemmed out of considering that I could carry on looking at the subject of my dissertation, which touched on themes of cultural identity, racism, race in general and multiculturalism.

Multiculturalism is something in particular that I have found myself thinking a great deal about, firstly due to the contrast I personally feel between the two cities that I currently reside in, Leeds and London. There is also the contributing factor that I want to become a secondary school teacher in an inner city school so hopefully I will be teaching children from a whole variety of different ethnic backgrounds. Finally I am going to New York City for a week in the middle of Easter and I feel that it is a city much like London that has so much to offer in terms of diversity and it is too good an opportunity to document some of this and tie it into my project.

I want to document the subject of multiculturalism through photography and I know that I want to take the photographs I produce and make them into handmade books, which could form part of a series depending on what themes and subjects within multiculturalism that I decide to focus on.

This means I have to research both photographers who have tackled not only the theme of multiculturalism but race issues in general and I think it will be interesting to look in both a historical and contemporary context. Secondly I will need to look at how photographers put their photographs together in book form and look at the best way I could go about this.