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Dawoud Bey may wish to document his town because it was where he grew up and he wanted to show people that they were mistaken about the region. Dawoud frequently snaps portraits of the neighbourhood from a portrait position and has filtered them in black and white. I believe that the majority of the photos taken received a good response since they were smiling and looking straight at the camera, that is a pleasant gesture. Personally, I believe that documenting his community was necessary so that he could demonstrate that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. The hatred directed at his community may have made him realise that the community in which he grew up was special.
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Siân Davey was interested in photography because she wanted to expand her artistic abilities. She quit psychotherapy as soon as she had her daughter Alice to pursue photography in order to spend more time with her. Siân enjoys documenting her family and other members of her community having fun (especially teens) along the river, which she appreciates.
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Adama Jalloh specialises in cultural photography. Most of the photographs seem simple to us, but they signify a lot to her and are quite beautiful. Her work is heavily reliant on memory and the ability to imagine a journal. She is from South East London and enjoys photographing her neighbourhood, Peckham.
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Liz Johnson Artur is a Russian-Ghanaian artist who presented new sculptural works incorporating photographs selected from her substantial archive of images documenting the lives of people from the African diaspora. Whenever she goes out, she tries to meet new people and take photographs of them. Artur has taken photographs across Europe, America, Africa and the Caribbean for more than three decades. She calls this ongoing project the Black Balloon Archive. She is based and works in London.
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Niall McDiarmid is a Scottish photographer who takes portraits of people he meets on his journey. In this video, he is describing his encounter with a young female who he thought was, fearless. She wears very bright, vivid colors which Niall really admires. He loves the color arrangement with the blue hair, white hat and yellow armband.
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Colin Pantall began photographing his daughter, Isabel, in the delivery room moments after she was born. From then on, “it was just constant”, he says. Previously, the pictures he took were architectural, environmental, sometimes historical; but becoming a father re-oriented him entirely.
The transition wasn’t effortless. In the early days his experience of fatherhood was spiked with feelings of claustrophobia and intense anxiety – fear of Isabel’s death, fear of his own. A sense that he could easily become obsolete. |
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Tyler is a 25 year old, who accomplished a lot since the age of 23, when he shot the front cover of Vogue & photographed many musicians, such as Harry Styles, Beyonce. He documents his community and sometimes is a fashion photographer. In addition to this, he also documents gun violence victims from the school Stoneman Douglas High & any who have been abused by police. In 2016 he shot a photo called "Gun" which represented the aggression of cops who killed a 12 year old boy in Cleveland who was accused of crime. "Black Beauty is an act of justice" quotes Mitchell, he believes the freedom and pleasure of black people should be captured, as white people fun is different to black. We know this, as he quotes it in his book 'I can make you feel good.'
"The Boys of Walthamstow" is a photo taken by Tyler Mitchell which shows a visualization of black utopia. To him, black fun is different to white fun, he makes this clear in the statement “I was thinking of what white people have been doing in their carefree suburban lives.” In this photo, i see 5 men who look relaxed and are posed in a way where we can see their identity. The 25 year old's reason for taking this picture is to show everyone how different darkskinned men are presented from the media, where they are mostly portrayed negative, in the USA. In this image, the background reminds Tyler of his home back in Georgia, South America and how he used to have fun playing, skateboarding and living life- to him, freedom is the most important thing to him. Something that is worth remembering about in this shot is the power of black unity. |
I have been thinking about the way my people sometimes marvel at a Black elder’s age when it seems not to entirely align with their stunning appearance—the Black folks who still know how to put together an outfit, no matter what else the years might take from them. “She’s ageless,” some will say, but an idea I like more is that Black people are timeless. Agelessness suggests an ability to endure and weather the world with little to no impact. Timelessness, though, is something even more miraculous—to appear in a photo as if you could be living in any era, loved by anyone.- new york times
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Freedom.
Tyler Mitchell declares that he places a great importance for liberty. He feels that almost everyone, including himself, should be free. He expresses freedom in his photographs by photographing his friends living fun. In my photoshoot, I'll be able to capture similar images of my family while they're blindsided and happy. |
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Props.
In this interview, Mitchell answers the question "How would you describe your fashion identity?" He states "like a silhouette I like usually I'll wear like some wider straight leg chinos or Dickies and then a lot of long sleeves a lot of graphic t-shirts and then I'll throw in like pops of colour. I'll wear really crazy like knitwear like I really love crazy baggy knitwear and sweaters in the winter and then in the spring I love like very colourful kind of button-down kind of like old, I guess like old kind of nurse shirts like little just button-up short sleeves so yeah that's how I describe my fashion." This has greatly inspired me to decorate myself and others who will be in my photoshoot in a way that is as colourful and interesting as his are. |
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Location.
When Tyler shows young Black people enjoying an open field or public park, he’s able to present a layered context; the simplicity and ubiquity of the location work in his favour. The way your subject explores or exists within those surroundings can exhume fresh meaning, and Tyler works to seek out the draw of a particular location and how his subjects exist within it. |
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I chose these images because they all have one thing in common, they all are taken of shop fronts. Each photo is different in its own way, for example, some shop signs have neutral colors and various are polychromatic; some window shutters have been vandalized with spray paint, these shops look almost as if they have been abandoned. I believe photographing a series of shops within your neighborhood counts as documenting your community because shops within the area are run by people who also live in your area. Also, most shops are where people meet up and great for hanging around in as they tend to enhance productivity. There’s something about the atmosphere of shops which brings most people together, for example, a coffee shop & barber shop. That is where most people tend to be social. I feel like the photographer Zoe Leonard, took these photographs because she feels pity for these shops, because i know i would. These images make me feel curious, why are people are ruining businesses physically? If I could ask Zoe a question, it would be
"What made you want to take pictures of the front of shops?" |