Final Moyra Davey Contact Sheet

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 I tried to take photos which captured those small moments of my life which make me pause a reflect for a short while. This small selection of the photos that I took for this project represents the images that I found most intriguing, and from these images I chose the ones I would print for my final critique.
During my critique the main take-away I got was that these pictures made people kind of uncomfortable, and I thought this was rather. By taking photographs of very un-glamorous moments, I seemed to have drawn attention to those parts of my visual experience which are not usually shared with others. Life in made up of a mountain of banalities, with occasional moments of greatness, and I think it important to give more respect to the former.



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