I'm just beginning to start out properly on a Foundation Degree in Photographic Media at the University Centre at Blackburn College. I'm going to use this blog site to document the things I learn along the way.
For my first post I would just like to post a few examples of my work up until starting this course and show everyone where I'm at.
Above is some examples from a set of photographs I took in the early stages of this year (2009). It was for a project highlighting the lack of funding and demise of football clubs lower down the football league tree; something close to my heart. This to me is some of my better documentary work and was a project that I was interested in very much.
In the spring of this year for my FMP for my National Diploma I did some studio work about epilepsy. This is something close to my heart as I have epilepsy. I chose to do it on epilepsy due to the changes its had on my life. After only being diagnosed 12 months ago the sudden changes have had quite a big impact on me and my studies; this is the reason for doing it. I would upload these images now but unfortunately the file types need converting so it'll have to wait until a later date!
In the spring of this year for my FMP for my National Diploma I did some studio work about epilepsy. This is something close to my heart as I have epilepsy. I chose to do it on epilepsy due to the changes its had on my life. After only being diagnosed 12 months ago the sudden changes have had quite a big impact on me and my studies; this is the reason for doing it. I would upload these images now but unfortunately the file types need converting so it'll have to wait until a later date!
I'd like to further add to this just by telling you about my favorite photographers and whose work really inspires me. I have a passion for documentary photography and it is probably the work of Don McCullin that I admire most. I really admire him for the atrocities that exist that he has shown to the world in his photographs. In well off nations we can often be a naive and ignorant to some pretty awful things and McCullin really showed us exactly what we; in well off nations, will never experience. He's been through hell to get his images and I admire him for that. Its not just this, his images have a certain look to them, an atmosphere which sucks the viewer in. The tonal range's are outstanding. Here's some of his work.
Documentary work being my passion it would be impossible for me not to mention 'the father of documentary photography', Henri Cartier-Bresson. He is a true great. Here are a few of my favorite of his images.
If were to do this for every photographer that inspires me in some way then I would be here all day; I would need another blog site just for that. Basically I have a soft spot for anything documentary or black and white. I love 'moody' photo's and I love images that have a geometric sort of feel to them.
