VISIONS & SOUNDS

 Martin Parr is a British Photographer who's known for his intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular street photography documenting the social classes of England, and more broadly the wealth of the western world. He has been a member of Magnum photos. He has exhibited extensively worldwide. He wanted to become a documentary photographer from the age of 14. He cites his grandfather, George Parr, an amatuer photographer and fellow of the Royal photographer society, as an early influence. Parr's style is close-up, through the use of a macro lens, and employing saturated colour, a result of either the type of film and/or use of a flash ring. This allows him to put his subjects "under the microscope" in their own environment, giving them space to expose their lives and values in ways that often involve inadvertent humour. In his own words, his attitude is to show the good and bad side of contemporary life. In his own words, his a

From the series Body Beach Bingo. Donato Di Camillo Donato is a new york based photographer who was born in Brooklyn of Italian parentage. As a child he suffered behavoural problems. He was soon expelled from school at the age of 16 for violence, then found himself in and out of behavoural institutions and jails. It was while he was serving out a prison sentence under house arrest that Donato became more interested in photography. At first he made pictures of bugs, plants and ants and subjects within 120ft of the home he was restricted to in Brooklyn. Upon his release he turned his attention to people. This interest kept him out of trouble and prison and turned his life around. He mentioned that a lady in his block of would bundle up old copies of National Geographic and the Smithsonian magazines and put them out in the trash. Donato explains that his dad would buy them and that's how the Photography seed was planted. He was a tough street operator who put the long hours of house a

 UNIT 6  STREET PHOTOGRAPHY. RESEARCH. - For my home work. In considering the the images of Vivian Maier and those in the masters of street photography book. I came to the realisation that in street photography the possibilities are limited only by our own imagination. You can shoot in black and white, in colour and in all formats.you can shoot close-up, from a distance,the shot can be framed in a myriad of ways. You can play with shadows,shape,form,patterns, and nuances, etc. Societal changes can be depicted, chronicled, and depicted. i.e. Race relations over time, Governmental shifts over time , locations over time , structures of family and family and therefore society's values over time.   Vivian Maier  Jesse Marlow (Top) Alex Titarenko (Bottom) The street Photographer I'd like to add is photographer called Gordon Parks. He also worked in other genres of photography. But I'd like to feature him as my street Photographer of choice.He was also a poet, musician and novelis

 For this week's project we were asked to visit a location at various times and see how the changing conditions affected our photographs. The location I chose was a section of Portobello Road market. This an evening when the stall holders had finished for the day. This is the same evening but a little later. This is the following morning stall holders getting ready to start all over again. As this photograph and the next taken in the early afternoon the crowds had returned. This and the next were taken on the next day late afternoon the market was once more empty. This show a mum on the school run. Same day and time as photo before. Group of people stopping and walking through the empty market area.

 This image represents my interest in poetry. I just thought it evoked a sense of poetry (autumn) and change. It's a subject I've previously wrote about in one of my poems.

 These represent my interest in 1) Music  and 2) Sports/wellbeing.

 

 We were give a handout by Michael Christopher Brown entitled: The last seven pictures, in which he mentioned that he made one picture a day that only define his week , but himself. We were asked to follow suit.  I began this assignment on the same day. On leaving a tube station I noticed a entertainer. A woman singing and playing a portable keyboard. Unfortunately I seem to have mislaid this and subsequent images. However, I will still completed the project. Images to follow. 

 I started a new photography course. On the first day class was asked to choose ten words that define what photography means to us individually. My ten words are as follows: Expression/Documenting/Representation/Beauty/Flexibility/Choice/Freedom/Exploration/Discovery. From the ten I chose freedom to expand on. I like the freedom which can be a process of photography. It allows us to break free from the shackles of our "normal" lives and help me to see and record anything that I so choose. In my mind I'm able to roam the bounds of creativity which is virtually limitless. I'm able to capture colours,forms,moods, turn concepts on their heads break the learnt rules of the medium and reconstruct them if I want to. Then break them all over again and see what happens in the process. I'm able to learn about my past, my history, from those before me and be influenced, and go forward to where they may have gone had they still been around.