First Trip

I went on my first drive/shoot recently, having conducted a small amount of research. I wanted to photograph things that caught my eye as I drove South from Leicester. In a similar vein to Paul Graham's work, I decided to stick to one A-Road called the 'Fosse Way' which runs from Lincoln to Exeter, passing through Leicester and Cirencester. I have family that live in Cirencester, and this was my destination of this trip.

This map shows the Fosse Way, and it is remarkably straight when you consider how much distance it covers. It was built by the Romans, but now has been superseded by faster, larger roads and motorways. I thought that this would be a good place to start my photographic journey and document things that caught my eye when travelling along it.

I wanted to take influence from all of the photographers I had looked at, and try and cover all the areas I had outlined my project proposal that I had intended to explore. I had one passenger with me, and photographed her aswell as the landscapes we were passing through, the vehicle we were in and the places we visited.

One key element of the journey that caught my eye were the large chequered road signs in place along the Fosse Way. The road is a fast road, with lots of junctions and crossings, so these road signs are important to catch drivers attention and warn them of the upcoming hazards. I had never seen them before, so have started to photograph them as they could potentially form part of a typology or triptych.

Overall, I feel that as an initial shoot I did fairly well, but the images lack interest and although the photographs of my passenger are relevant and add a sense of intimacy to the work, I need to make them more interesting.