Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Photo Book Proposal (UTI)

The architecture of Dublin, the downtown area.








My name is Beatriz Castelo, I am 21 years old and I am an exchange student from Fortaleza, Ceará, city that is on the northeast of Brazil. In Brazil I study Architecture and Urbanism. I came to Ireland by a Brazilian government program that finances students to study in other countries. Here I am doing some classes about media and journalism and psychology. One of them is Understand the Image, and for complete this one I have to make a photo book with pictures taken by me. I always liked to take pictures, is one of some hobbies that I have, and editing images.  Here I am taking the opportunity to learn more about it, and working with it in this class.

For do this photo book I will take pictures about buildings, houses, streets, squares, etc. In other words, the architecture of Dublin, specifically from the downtown area, because is where I spend more time in the city, after the Marino and is where the architecture and the street style are more diverse. There are a lot of construction, showing how they (new's ones and the old ones) can be side by side and do not to be conflicting with each others, and showing how the architecture defines to the city forms.

To do this project I will take pictures in the route that I usually get to go home and to go to Dublin Business School (DBS). This route is doing by bus, the bus is Marino 123 (From Marino Towards Walkinstown (Kilnamanagh Rd.)), but I wont do the completely route, my course is until the Dame Street (Griffith Avenue to Dame Street), in the both ways. This project will happen between November 2013 and March 2014. At the end of the class schedule all students will present their work and the best of them will be on display in an exhibition.

As I said before, I choose this theme to do my photo book because I am an architecture and urbanism student and I really appreciated how the building and the streets delimited zones in the cities and specifically in Dublin that the new and the old (types of architecture styles) can stay side by side and not fight with each other or gets weird.  I am excited to do this and show how the architecture and the photography can work together.


The pictures for the photo book will be taken in own my way to go home or Dublin Business School (DBS) in an IPhone 5 camera or a Nikon D3100. Before taking the pictures the route will be watching to see where the most interesting views of the buildings are and in which places there are the new and the old abreast or when the architecture defines what should happen in some place. Concluding step of the photos, the best ones will be selected and will be treating to make part of a photo book. When the photo book is ready, it will be presented to our tutor, because the best book will be showing in an exhibition, and after that I will take my book to Brazil and show to my friends so they can see how the architecture organize the city here in Dublin.

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