London Scout

I have a technique - flash projecting onto blank spaces in the city - and a general idea - disrupting reality or creating a false reality in those spaces - but not sure what to project yet, or what those projections are going to say.

My first task was to find the kind of locations I image using.  The aestitic I'm thinking of is from my previous work 'left' - city scapes using only ambient light.  This means exposure are long, people disappear and vehicles a streak of light.

The space I shot fell in to a couple of different catagories -

First was the historical site - a statue, an empty plaque, generally an old stone structure.  One of the images has some words - 'the glorious dead', honouring soldiers killed in the world wars - I'm not keen to have text in the image but it would be easy to put an image to the caption, possiblity refering to those that died not so gloriously.
Many of the historical sites and english history are built on war, honouring generals etc. - What if I were to put the dead at their feet?

The example above doesn't really work as these are holocost victims - probably the victims of this anonymous generals enemy - but the idea of using the aspect of war that isn't celebrated.  I could imagine a title like 'a nation built on war' - not a new idea and far too obvious, but a start for thinking.
The other image I shot in London were of miscelaneous urban settings, more generaic, not so recognisable places - more a place to stage my own story.  I think of science fiction where portals open in out of way places for someone to be thrown through.  I've never been very succesful with placing people in my images - and this would require more complicated lighten, but if I'm creating a fictional reality, a person interacting with my illusion would legitimize it somewhat.

One aspect of using a flash projector is that anyone watching me take the image would not see what I'm projecting - this gives the possiblity of having passer-bys in the image not consious of an image thats projected - 'real' not photoshopped - in front of them.  Possibly for natural expression to something that could be paticularly horrific, disturbing or not normal. 

I've been advised to not just shoot in the daytime, and not to use projection unless I can legitimize its use.  Therefor I'll experiment with both - shooting the same places in the daytime and without projection (already done to some extent) to see the context of the images without these factors.