My Starting Point

My starting point for the project was to take an initial visit to the depot with my DSLR camera, I wanted to use this time to have an in depth tour of the working environment so that I could get used to the layout in terms of where everything is and it also gave me a chance to meet some of the staff and get acquainted with the company and its daily runnings.

My partner Reece is an accident body repairer for the company so he was put in charge of giving me the guided tour around the depot, I was told that after the first initial tour I would be allowed to go to the depot anytime I wanted (providing it was a weekend) and that I would then be allowed to walk around the site unaccompanied in order to take photographs for the project.

I wanted to spend the whole day there so that I could have the tour in the morning and then use the afternoon to walk around and play with lighting and angles; I also wanted to use that time to explore the site on my own and photograph things that most people would overlook such as the empty office rooms upstairs or the chassis pit the hardly ever gets used.

When taking photographs I kept in mind the manifesto that we wrote in class and stuck to it for the entire shoot: