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.





