Go for it ! Personal project (Assignment 5)

I sent off my outline thoughts for my Personal Project ( Assignment 5) to my tutor and have had encouraging feedback and ideas for reading around the idea :

'Briefly, it looks very interesting and highly current.  You should look around for as many references to photographers and other artists doing something similar and contextualise your work, that is work out and write about how your work relates to similar projects by others.  The fact that others are/have done something similar is no reason for you not to try your own take on it, everyone will be different and looking at what they have done and what people have written on the subject of images, memory and family should make a good research portfolio.  The current issue of the Photoworks annual is titles Family Politics and might well be worth a look and if you can find a copy (library interloans or a good university library as it is out of print) of the Spence, Holland Family Snaps it would be well worth the look.  Of course you should look up the Richard Billingham iconic Ray's a Laugh and of course, the whole discourse surrounding the image and real and constructed histories and memorial  was central to post-modern theory.'
 
Have already tracked down 'Family Snaps' and  hope to get a copy of the Photoworks Annual shortly. Just need to ensure reading time doesn't get overtaken by Assignment 4.
And also taken some preliminary images around the war theme...Really excited about the getting to grips with the concept of conceptualising my work ..a new area to get to grips with..