Friday, January 30, 2009


Priest: missed images i think are good?..lack of time







I thought the people at work assignent would be easy for me , as i had already been through the same assignments at Newport, i was wrong.

I think becasue of the way i approach my subjects and fall softly into the photgraphy zone rather than jump into places and situations i still found a two hour assignment with two rolls of film hard...the good pictures for me seem to come towards the end.

Homers tutorial was very good but brief, hes hard and honest but i felt he missed out on some of my better images and when the photos from photoshelter were opened up, they look blurred?...i dont know if that was just shelters software or i compressed them too much to fit?

the frustrating thing is i kniow i can take better images, but i normally have many mistakes, experiments on a contact sheet before i find my place.

Lets hope round two brings comes out better for Homers composition.


Friday, January 16, 2009

1st Assignment 'People at Work'

PEOPLE AT WORK assignment One

Week One:
Started to take photos of a Brazilian friend who work as a building supervisor at one of the University Student Libiaries in Oxford. He came here five years ago and first worked as a cleaner.
I used my old Pratika, still havent developed film yet, not sure how the images will turn out as 1: the camera is old and unrealiable and the envoirement quite boring.

Week Two:
Gained permission to photograph the Royal Horse Guards, just waiting for date and time comformation.
Trying to gain permission to Photograph the Polish Priest in Aylesbury, my girlfriend whos Polish is trying to arrange it for me, so hopefully i can meet him Sat and photograph him this Sunday.
Talked again to Costa the Greek Cypriot who works at the strange cafe on Cowley Rd Oxford, the place is frequented by all types from Drug addicts to Transvestite cowboys.
He said i could photograph one day in the week so hopefully next Tuesday Morning...hes quite strange looking but its still going to be hard to concentrate only on him and not the rest of the wierd clientale.

Migrant Workers. People who work with Animials.

Im very interested in the topic of migration and imigration as well as the concept of:
Exiles and the issues surrounding the idea of being an exile and i'd like to try to fit that in around my Major or colloborative project.
I'd like to extend the work if it becomes succesful after this edit and work in a documentary portrait way..but somehow different maybe using text and landscapes, sound but depends how this edit turns out.
Also it fits into my first meeting with the 'Chechen Refugees' in Poland and my open ideas at the moment taking in : Refugess, Migrants, Politicial Exiles from Russia or wanted by Russia, exiled communities, social pariahs and issolation..ethnic an dsocial within the Cauccauses.
Hopefully Paul will be able to help and guide me with contact etc.
Will decide later to make it broad or more intimate perssonel.

People who work with animals, especially Horses interests me also but at this moment only for these first assignments, but maybe i can fit that into a portrait project later.

Ongoing
Still working on edit for the exhibiton ' The Death Of Memory' at Aylesbury Arts Center concerning the continuing decline of my Grandfather and his loss of memory due to Vascular Dimentia. (five year Project).