Exercise: Symbols.

Find symbols for a number of concepts. List more than one symbol for the following subjects, adding notes on how you might use them in a photograph.

Growth.

1. Plant growing from a seed.

2. A building half built.

3. Economic growth - A pile of money.

4. A graph to show a growth in profits.

Excess.

1. A woman dressed head to foot in designer clothing and expensive jewellery.

2. Fast food like burgers and chips with someone vastly over weight - obesity.

3. Large garage full of top of the range vehicles.



 

 

4. Champagne lifestyle - Yacht, bottle of champagne, well dressed attractive people.

 

 

 

Crime.

 

 

1. Burglary - broken window to a house, person in a 'hoodie' inside.

 

 

2. Handcuffs.

 

 

3. Graffiti in a 'rough' area.

 

 

4. Drug use - needles, powder etc.

 

 

 

Silence.

 

 

1. Tape over a persons mouth.

 

 

2. Picturesque landscape.

 

 

3. Finger over lips - well recognised.

 

 

4. Hearing aid left on a table.

 

 

 

Poverty.

 

 

1. Beggar in a shop doorway.

 

 

2. Starving child.

 

 

3. Coins of low denomination in a begging bowl.

 

 

4. Shanty town - poor housing, no clean running water etc.