Category Photographers I’m interested in.
Robert Capa
‘If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.’ It would eventually be his belief in this that lead Robert Capa to his death in Vietnam in May 1954 when he stepped on a landmine whilst trying to take a photograph of French soldiers retreating. The life of the man whom most people believe […]
Steve McCurry
In the feedback for my last assignment, Sharon recommended that I spend more time looking at photographers I’m interested as this would help to open up greater creative responses within my own practice. I feel I haven’t spent enough time doing this as there’s so much involved with this course that it’s difficult to get […]
Sally Mann
Sally Mann is one of the photographers that my tutor recommended I look at in her feedback from Assignment One as I try to develop child portraiture and where to go with it. Sharon recommended Mann’s series ‘At Twelve’ which consists of portraits of young girls on the cusp of their teenage years, but I […]
Where I find inspiration…..……
Studying The Art of Photography led me to many places and a lot of photographers, many of whose work I liked, but some I didn’t. I remember getting really stuck for a while on Part Three of TAOP which dealt with colour. I’d been focusing on B&W for a long time, so to suddenly have […]
My People and Place Learning Log 