The aim of this exercise was to set myself and assignment and then photograph it. I chose to cover the first day of the John Hewitt summer school. Every year the John Hewitt society runs a week long literary summer school and cultural festival with talks from authors, workshops, art exhibitions and performances. It takes place in the Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre, Armagh, and some surrounding venues for the workshops. I wanted to try and capture the essence of the event, and give the viewer a sense of being there.
I took 300 photos and selected the following to tell the story.
Part of telling the story is the layout of the photographs. I used a web version of wedding album software to do the layout so you will see the word proof on the photos in some places where my Photoshop skills were not sufficient to remove it
