Contact Sheet - 7

This is my first roll from when i was in London. I shot the full thing in Camden Town. What a interesting place it was too shoot, full of a range of styles, fashions, architecture and just a fun energy to it.

What  i like about this shoot is that it is the first time i was really able to let myself go and get up close with people. What i am also happy with is that i think that these images are really busy and have a lot of detail, this is something i don't think many of my other shoots have so i think its a nice contrast. 

Enlargements: - these images don't look as good as they do in print form because of the low quality of scan

This is a typical shot you would expect to see of camden and I'm not too happy with it. i think that quite a lot of detail is lost and that the middle section is just too busy with all the clothes and items, creates too much contrast. Im really not too happy with this image. 

Taken just outside the tube station were a Michael Jackson impersonator was performing. I like how you can just see the crowds of people and not the act itself gives a kind of mystery to the image (wondering what they are all doing). i also like how you can see a lot more of the buildings in this image.

This is one of the images i am most happy with. i think that it doesn't show or give away the location unlike some of the other images in, yet it still has a alternative feel what i think Camden is all about due to the Rob Zombie poster. I also like the way the tree is cutting the poster in half, i thought that this would have spoiled the image but i don't no, i kind of like it. 

Really nice lighting created on the window of the bus because of the light reflecting of the glass. Maybe would think about cropping the man and bin on the right hand side out of the frame as i don't like how close it is to the edge kind of distracts my eye. 

Mind blank

Really getting worked up now because since this project has started i have had the image of a picture in my head that was one of my favourites in college and i think it would be good to put in my research However i cannot for the life of me remember what it is called or who took it! think i best get in the loft and dig my old s/b out. Knew i would need them for something!

Olga Chernysheva - Acquaintances

A bit of a poor quality scan of this image, maybe if you have a quick flick though the book you can see a better example of it, as well as some other lovely images. I really like this idea of taking pictures into windows looking in from the street. It creates some really nice outcomes with the patterns and what look like double exposures due to the reflections.

Street & Studio - An Urban History of Photography

Another book that i flicked though in the library and decided to have a closer look at. Below are a few images i found interesting. 

Francis Alys - Sleepers, 1999 - 2006

as individual images I'm not too keen on these pictures but when they are positioned next to each other on a page like this i really like them all together as a group. i like how you can see the similarities through out each, yet i like how each has its own little individual twist. i like the use of colour and also that they are low angle shots, you are on the same level as the people and not looking down on them, kind of shows that were all on the same level no matter your situation.

Eugene Richards

I think that this would be better in colour as i can imagine it having really bright colours and having a slight Martin Parr feel to it (even though im not the biggest fan of his work i like sometimes the use of bright colours that is his style). i would have like to be standing with the photographer when he took this as i would have done it in colour and maybe taken a few steps back or looked slightly to the right a bit more, just my thoughts on it.

Protest - 65 years of rebellion in photographs

I went to the library to get some light reading for the weekend and i found a few Photography books that caught my attention, this being one of them. When looking through the book and reading the captions below what state the time and place of the image and what the protest was about i found some of the images striking and powerful. I think that through out this book there is some great examples of street photography what has a strong and powerful feel to them. 

Andrew Testa - 2010 London riots

This image from the book was taken during the student protest in London over the rise in student tuition fees. I like this image because i just think its just a typical English thing to do. It doesn't seem serious to me, i know there is a lot of damage, for instance the fire and graffiti but it just reminds me of some drunk doyle down the town on a saturday night, just made me see the hole thing as a joke rather than a serious matter like some of the other images make you feel.

Peter Marlow - 1981 Northern Ireland

a image of a young boy that shows just how bad the violence was in Northern Ireland as it is to the extent that kids are showing violence towards the army. In away i think that this is quite disturbing that children are getting involved with things like this, and without images like this i wouldn't believe that it was. I think that images like this are very significant.

Bruno Barbey - 1968 Paris

I really like this image. i think that it is my favourite from the book. the man stood on the light almost replicates the monument in front of him. i also wonder how the image was taken and where the photographer was stood as they would have to be high up as the image is looking out not up. I just really like the composition of the image.

Contact Sheet - 6

This roll of film was done around the market area in Hartlepool. Most of this shoot i did from the hip what i don't really like because you cant really frame the image how you would want to by doing it this way. Also its basically just luck if you get a good shot. I am also not happy with this shoot as i think that it is too dark and over exposed. When putting this film onto the spool in the dark i cut it too close to the end and ended up cutting through a frame (bottom right) its a shame that this has happened as i really like the look of this image and is one of the few i would have used in the dark room after looking at the contact sheet.

Enlargements: 

Like that you can see the market in the background but the lady in the front is the main subject. The sky isn't as bleached out as it is in some of my other images, what i like will be better if i chose to print it as a final image because you could see were the image ends and the boarder starts. Main thing that i don't like about this image is whatever is entering the frame in the bottom right of the image. I cant even make out what this is! Just wish i seen this coming and cropped it out. Also like how you see the lady on the same level, makes it like were equal shes the same as me I'm not better or worse.