WORKING TITLES...

I have always struggled with titles for regarding my work, in fact its something I would rather not have to contend with. I have been asked why I am not more creative in my titles, but for me, calling a landscape 'Celestial Morning Glory' or 'Forgotten In Time My Misty Fair Eyed Maiden', is something best left for the local camera club. My Titles tend to be what you see; 'Red Chair', 'Yellow Chicken', 'Pink Pushchair', you get the idea. But this isn't just me being lazy as titles like these makes work easy to remember, to archive, and to dig out when a request is made, book titles however are quite different, like an exhibition title they have to generate intrigue, stay with the viewer, and above all sum up the work on display. Unlike an exhibition, a book will be around for a long time so it has to be right.
My first book Night Vision is not the most original of titles, and in fact only around 60 percent of the book is in fact shot at night, (the book was edited and given a title (not by me) then the writer loved several images so much that we put those in even though they were taken in the day time..). But the title has stuck and I still exhibit and present work from the Night Vision series.
So the time has come to title this latest body of work. I started calling the project 'By Coastal' some time ago as it was by the coast and a play on words which most people seen as having some sexual connotation even though it referred to the Bi- Coastal living in LA and New York with the spelling 'By' and not 'Bi'. I may just stick with this title as it does after all summarise the work rather nicely. 'The Coastal Project' is another title I could go with although I am reluctant to use 'The' in a title and 'Project' for that matter. You see its not that easy...
Anyhow, whatever its called, the only person its going to bother is me.