What do we see in images?

Shortly after being handed the brief we completed an exercise to get us thinking about photography on a very basic level. We looked at a series of photographs, pinned them to the wall and wrote down what we saw.

At first we were stating very obvious things, where the locations were, what techniques were used, why we think it would be taken? After speaking with the tutors about the images they pushed us to look a little deeper into the photos. One particular example was of a door, there was a shadow of another door shining onto it. At first we thought it would just be that someone left the door open. Upon further inspection we realised it was an external door with a peephole, maybe in an apartment corridor. It was shot from a POV perspective which we ignored at first. We came to the conclusion that it was someone peering out of there own door to see what was in the corridor.

Of course there were no wrong answers but it was a great exercise which got us thinking looking deeper into photographs and there meaning.