Final Selection

Below is my final selection of images to go into my project and the order I will display them:

Edits

Here are a collection of some of the edited photos I have selected for possible use in my project:

Third Shoot

Finally managed to get all the images I need for my project! I’m a little annoyed I’ve left it so late but other work got in the way.. Anyway, here are some of the unedited images I have taken. I will upload edits later:

Panoramas

Here are those panoramas I took during my last shoot. I’m pretty pleased with the way they have turned out so hopefully I’ll be able to use one of them in my final project:

Second Shoot

Today I went into Brighton with the aim to capture all the images I will need for my final project. Unfortunately the shoot wasn’t as successful as I hoped but I did managed to get some panoramas I am quite please with that I will upload in a later post once they are edited. For now, here are some of the other images I took (unedited):

First Shoot

Today I went into Brighton with an idea to take some photographs for my project based around Brighton’s Pier. Me and my friend both got up at 6.30am in order to try and capture the sunrise but unfortunately the sky was overcast so we didn’t get much of a glimpse of the sun. I also didn’t manage to get many photographs I feel would work well in my project but below are some of the images (unedited) I took:

Back To The Future

Here is another project that caught my eye:

Dear Photograph

Browsing the web I found this contributory photography project that I liked the idea of, enjoy!:

Martin Parr

Name: Martine Parr, 1952 –

Genre: Photojournalism

Famous Works: Martin Parr is know for his photographic projects that provide a social commentary and critical look of contemporary Britain. He has published almost 50 books and takes an “intimate, anthropological and satirical” approach to his works. Parr’s images.  Though famous and well received now,  Parr’s images caused contention amongst other photojournalist; his application to become part of the photographic agency Magnum Photos split the existing members in opinion. Photographer Jones Griffiths said on the matter: “Anyone who was described as Margaret Thatcher’s favourite photographer certainly didn’t belong in Magnum. His photographs titillate in some way, but the fact is that they are meaningless.” However, when the vote was counted he nearly lost out winning by just one vote. His book and project Signs Of The Times: A Portrait Of The Nation’s Tastes (1992) is probably my favourite of his works. In this project Parr takes the viewer into the homes of the public, photographing the everyday and the normal. Each photograph displayed is accompanied by a quote from the home-owner – giving the viewer a further insight into the motifs behind their tastes and anchoring further meaning to the photographs displayed.”Signs of the Times is a book about personal taste in the British home. Based on the cult television series, it surveys perceptions of good and bad taste, exploring the extraordinary range of emotions that lie behind our household choices. This is a subject almost as taboo as sex and the findings of this photographic comedy of manners are both hilarious and serious.”–from the jacket copy From A to B. Another element of Parr’s work I like is his focus on the British Tourist and seaside resorts. This is evident in his 1986 book The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton. The photographs here act as a satire on the state of Britain at the time taken, reflecting the dismay and decline of the working class during a Thatcherite Britain. His images are taken on high-saturation film which creates an intense and garish effect, powerful in connoting this.

Quotes:

“I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it’s the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don’t find it easy. I don’t announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone’s photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it’s the one thing that gives the game away. I don’t try and hide what I’m doing – that would be folly.”

“With photography, I like to create fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society’s natural prejudice and giving this a twist.” 

Decisive Moments

Inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson’s approach to photography and his notion of “The Decisive Moment” I decided to look for some images that I thought fit this title well. Below are a selection of photographs I found from similar blogs and from browsing the web. Where possible I have tried to include the name of the photographer, the date and the location (hover over the images to see). I’ve have also tried to include a wide spectrum of images – some contain obvious elements of humour, whereas others are more sobering and hard-hitting.