Statement of Intent

'The assignment is an Open Brief and you must produce an accompanying Critical Journal. You will propose a theme / project and, with tutor guidance, you will manage and produce the project. What you propose is of course down to you, but note that it needs to be within the context of documentary.'

In my project of documenting the real I want to explore the idea of truth. By truth I mean that I want to test the boundaries of Photography itself by showing the true everyday happenings of what really goes on inside of a company and for this project I have chosen to use Arriva.

Arriva is a well-known and well used bus travel company in the UK (specifically South East England depots) that helps ordinary people from all waves of life to get from A to B, whether they are going to work or to school or even just popping to the shops on the weekend, Arriva will help them to get to where they need to be. The company Deutsche Bahn in Germany has taken travel to the max by offering many bus and train services but they decided to branch out to the UK where they created their subsidiary company Arriva.

In our first lecture we spoke about the idea of truth in Photography which lead me to ask questions such as; How much of the truth can we tell? Can we even tell the truth? If a company or if the government says that you are not allowed to take photographs of certain things can we disobey that? 

Throughout my project I will be researching into different photographers series such as Ansel Adams' 'Manzanar Project' and Mathieu Asselin's 'Monsanto Project' in order to get a better understanding of how (if possible) I can tell the truth of what goes on inside of a company without actually telling the truth. All of the work and links that I use in this project will be both factual and a true representation of the everyday runnings, behind the scenes, of Arriva from the depots point of view instead of from a bus journey.