Documenting the disadvantaged – right or wrong?
Social documentary photography is a fast growing type of documentary photography, best demonstrated by photographers such as Sebastiao Salgado and James Nachtwey, in which the photographer takes pictures of people in poor countries around the world or in those parts of our own society which are more disadvantaged or who live in poor conditions. While … Continue reading
Modern v postmodern photography
What is modern photography as opposed to postmodern photography? Internet research picks up that postmodern photographic art is quite different to other postmodern art, being about deconstruction and desensitising the viewer to what they are seeing. Meanwhile modern photographic art is the term loosely used to describe the period from roughly the 1860s to the … Continue reading
Telling a story with pictures…
My latest personal project has been focusing on how I can tell a story through the use of pictures. The line ‘a picture tells a thousand words’ is so apt, and goes a long way to help explain why I got involved in photography. To me, words are not so important; pictures, good pictures, are. … Continue reading
The photograph as contemporary art
What is photographic art? Does a photograph need to be delicately constructed as if a painting or other work of art, or can it also be the photographic capture of a moment in time, a documentary-type snapshot? Charlotte Cotton’s ‘The Photograph as Contemporary Art’ provides a fascinating discussion of what is art and showcases a … Continue reading
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