What is documentary Photography
Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life. documentary photography describes any photos that attempt to record the world as it is. from wide- angle photographs of war close- up snapshots of people on the street, these images can inform an audience about the hidden corners of contemporary life event become part of the historical record.
I think that documentary photographers want to document a community with people and places because they want to see the differences in people and their styles.
- These photographs could be likened to street photography. What is different about the way in which Dawoud Bey photographed his subjects?
- = The difference between these and Dawood Bey's photographs is that he like the difference in people and different style.
- The relationship between the photographer and the subject is sometimes evident in the images. What can you say of the relationship here? Do you think that it was a positive relationship? How can we tell? Do the people in the images look comfortable, or nervous, at ease or on edge?
- = the people in the picture looks uncomfortable and nerves because imagine someone wanted to take a picture of you out of the blue but some people might feel comfortable and like when people take pictures of them.
- What might have been his inspiration? = they might have been inspiration to see people in a different way and talking to people getting to know them,
in todays lesson we had to answer some questions on this sheet and explain what we could see, what genre is this photography, what details strike you as interesting, what is unusual about this photograph, how does it make us feel, what questions do you have about this photography, and write a list of 5 adjectives to describe this photograph, describing the picture on top of the sheet and we had to draw her.
in this lesson we had to be in a pair and we had to take pictures of each other I took pictures of Aimee . we had to take 6 inside and 6 outside but we only got up to 7 because we ran out of time. we both found this lesson quite hard because we both don't like taking pictures and we don't like smiling in pictures , it was hard to find where to take the pictures because the sun was not out a lot and everywhere was just a lot of shadows and the backgrounders was not that good because there was a Lot of people outsides. the thing I have to improve is to take more pictures and take them in good places. I would of liked the pictures to be more close up and the lighting to be better and the angle. if I had more time I would of done more pictures and try to find better lighting.
pictures of people in my community
I took these 6 images on my phone and I am actually really happy about these photos because the lighting is so nice and the background actually came out really good though were was going to be something bad about the backgrounds bc there was a lot of stuff in the air and I didn't want them to be in the picture and there was a Lot of people playing football but we still made the picture come out nice , and he dressed nicely for the pictures to but the one thing I could change is the shadows try to do it from a different angle and don't get that much shadows in the picture because in the third, sixth and the first picture the shadow was just in the way. this picture are very creative and I have forces on one person and one person only and the framing is really nicely done.
this video its about Liz Johnson Artur and she only takes pictures of black people she is trying to represent people from the African diaspora. she goes out meeting new people and one way to keep this moment is to take a photograph of them, the black balloon archive is a working title and its a matter of accumulating pictures and then trying to make sense of them. Lay Johnson Artur looks at it, the whole show, as a book with chapters, the first chapter is the libary because it represents images that have been around her. and she takes pictures of her local high street in Peckham of people. she wants to represent her local high street so she takes pictures of people and see the difference in people and what going on in her local high street. in this video I can see a lot of people and how they are wearing different clothes and different poses and the backgrounds in places. I would say if a person cant see the pictures how the backgrounds are and what the people are doing in the pictures and talk about the lighting.
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this video is about Adama Jalloh and she think what compels me to make work is just being able to keep a memory alive. she decided i wanted more people to see rather than me just keeping it stored in my head, so a lot of the time she capturing things that are very simple, but for me it means a lot. she mostly take pictures can be linked to something thats more to do with where she come from, her upbringing , where her parents are from and other times its much more loose, in terms of it being street photography.
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in today lesson we had to take pictures of someone, we had to take 6 outside and 6 inside. I am quite happy of these pictures I took today as such I like the lighting and how these pictures came out, at first we found it hard to get some good lighting but then we found some places to take good pictures with good lighting. the inside pictures we took was kind of hard to find two as such we couldnt find good backgrounds we found a few but there not the best.
Editing images
Tyler Michale
Tyler Michale is 25 years old and he photography pictures of black people, and he takes pictures of people skate boarding because when he was younger he loved to skateboard Tyler takes pictures of stuff that he used to love when he was younger, the pictures he took was in portrait and they was close up. he write a book called I can make you feel good and its a 206 pages celebration of photographer and filmmaker Tyler Mitchells distinctive vision of a black utopia. in he's pictures there a lot of plants and trees and its a lot of Blane colours.
I really like this picture because I love how she's got flowers on her hair and it stands out the most and I like the back ground how its just Blane because if you didn't have a Blane background I think that Tyler Mitchell is a photographer that photographs with his community in America. Most of his images are of young black people. In the images the people are mostly people who are relaxed. There is lots of colour in his images and the backgrounds are plain or with plants or flowers.
in todays lessons we had to take 12 photography and the photos had to be like Tyler Michale so we had to have plain background and we went around the school with different outfits and we had coloured fabric we had coloured fabric because are backgrounders had to be plain and we had to not show are uniform `nd if there wasn't no backgrounds you could use the coloured fabric to be are backgrounders. I found this task ok but it was kinda hard because we didn't know what to do and it was hard to find places with a plane background so we had to use a mat and stand the mat up and put coloured fabric over the mat. if I could do this again I would make the pictures by making it look better because in half of the photos you can see the actual background and more ideals for it like what to do because we didn't know what to do like what poses. I got ideals for my personal project like add more detail and add more stuff in the pictures.
out of the 12 images this picture was my favourite one because all the other ones you could see the actual background, and I like the colour in this background and this image is different from all the other pictures because all the other ones look kinda the same but this one look different. I like the white fabric on Aimees head I think it stands the picture out more but it would be better if you couldn't see her hair and if we didn't see her uniform.
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second response
in this lesson we had to take 6 photographs and it had to be about Tyler Michale are last time taking pictures like Tyler Michale. we had to go around the school and we had to take pictures with a plan backgrounders but this time we had to take pictures just off are head and shoulders, and we didn't have any fabric this time just had to make are own and we had to take probs from home to use for the photos . in this photos I think there should of been better light but I like the colours in the photos and I really like the flowers in the photograph because they stand out and it just makes the pictures look more nice. I like the pictures we took this lesson like there creative and we had a lot of probs for are photos. if people looked at my work I think they would like it but they would say to crop some bits out because in some pictures you can see other stuff in the background and they make the pictures look weird but apart from that I think they will say it look nice.
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collages
nick Meyer ' the local project
These images as a group of images look as if the area is a bit run down and remote. The collection of different things together such as the collection of cars piled up makes me think that the area is not very well locked after. Most of them make me feel quite uncomfortable as they look still, sad and it looks like a place that doesn't live there or a place that no-one would visit. It looks deserted or abandoned. The still images don't look interesting or appealing as the subject matter looks nice.
Zoe LeonardsAre there similarities within the images? this images all look similar because they are all? all these photographs are smilar because they are all outside the shop
what are the differences with the images? the one bit that are differences about the shops are there all difference shops for example there's the barbers , Corner shop, and some looks like food shops and different backgrounds. can photographing a series of shops document what may be happening within a community? Give reasons for your answers? the community might have a lot of shops and she probably what's to see the differences between the shops. what would you like to ask the photographer about these images? I would like to ask the Zoe Leonards why she likes taking pictures of shops and what got her inspired to take photos of shops. |
shopfronts
I decided to take my images around Charlton in south east London.
I decided to focus on these specific shopfronts as some are different sizes like some shops are small and some are wide. I choses this one because show the different in shops. I'm quite pleased with how they have turned out because I like the lighting in the pictures and its not to messy like the shops.
If I were to take these images again I would focus on the angle in some of the pictures because in some pictures the angle good but in some I took them from the side and more close up because in most of the pictures there stuff around like pictures like cars and people.
I'm not sure which collage I'm going to do yet as I need to lay the images out to see how they will look.
I decided to focus on these specific shopfronts as some are different sizes like some shops are small and some are wide. I choses this one because show the different in shops. I'm quite pleased with how they have turned out because I like the lighting in the pictures and its not to messy like the shops.
If I were to take these images again I would focus on the angle in some of the pictures because in some pictures the angle good but in some I took them from the side and more close up because in most of the pictures there stuff around like pictures like cars and people.
I'm not sure which collage I'm going to do yet as I need to lay the images out to see how they will look.