Taken: 29th March 2010
Taken: 29th March 2010
Taken: 29th March 2010
Taken: 29th March 2010
Taken: 29th March 2010
Friday 2 April 2010
My City
For my 6th week of images I took pictures around the area in which I live. I was happy with how the shoot went and luckily all of the images on the film came out. From the 36 images I chose 5 which I felt worked well together and created a story when put in a series. Unfortunatly the quality of the images arn't as good as the originals as I had to scan in the photos instead of the negatives and then reduce the size of the images to make them fit onto the blog. The following images are the ones which I chose.
Richard Bram
When doing research on street photography I came across an artist called Richard Bram. Bram is a street photography originally from America but moved to London in 1997. He was born in Philadelphia in 1952, but grew up in Ohio, Utah and Arizona, where he finished High School, College and Graduate School. He earned degrees in Political Science and International Business, and then a series of jobs led him to Louisville, Kentucky, where, in 1984, he lost his head and decided to pursue photography full-time as a vocation. He built his early career in public relations, public events, performance and portrait work.
After moving to London in 1997, Richard concentrated on street photography and other personal photographic projects. In July of 2008 he returned to the States, now living in the financial District of New York City. His work is in institutional, corporate, and personal collections, including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography.
On the In-Public website Bram wrote the following;
“I’m a Street Photographer. Most of my photographs originate there, in the random chaos of the street, in the ambient weirdness of everyday life.
“I expose some film nearly every day, and always carry a camera: anything could occur. It keeps me alert and awake to the world around me, even while simply on my way somewhere on an unrelated errand. These images are my personal visual diary: they are not staged or created artificially. Reality is strange enough.
“I’ve always been more drawn to black and white. I like the level of abstraction it brings: the distilled monochromatic essence of a frame without the distraction of color. ‘In black and white you look at the faces; in color you look at the clothes.’
“However, when I began making photographs, they were in color. Shooting digitally in color for commercial work has returned me to color street photography as well. Where this goes in the long run, I do not know. For now, I shoot both.”
My favorite two series of images which Bram has created are "Street Photography" and "The Underground".
"Street Photography"
"I’m a Street Photographer. Most of my photographs originate there, in the random chaos of the street, in the ambient weirdness of everyday life. To be a Street Photographer is to be, as Alex Kozloff put it, a 'professional stranger.' I expose some film nearly every day and always carry a camera: something human, curious, funny or strange could happen. Most of the time it doesn't, but one must be ready just in case. It keeps me alert and awake to the world around while simply on my way somewhere on an unrelated errand. These images are my personal visual diary: they are not staged or created artificially. Reality is strange enough." - Richard Bram
After moving to London in 1997, Richard concentrated on street photography and other personal photographic projects. In July of 2008 he returned to the States, now living in the financial District of New York City. His work is in institutional, corporate, and personal collections, including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography.
On the In-Public website Bram wrote the following;
“I’m a Street Photographer. Most of my photographs originate there, in the random chaos of the street, in the ambient weirdness of everyday life.
“I expose some film nearly every day, and always carry a camera: anything could occur. It keeps me alert and awake to the world around me, even while simply on my way somewhere on an unrelated errand. These images are my personal visual diary: they are not staged or created artificially. Reality is strange enough.
“I’ve always been more drawn to black and white. I like the level of abstraction it brings: the distilled monochromatic essence of a frame without the distraction of color. ‘In black and white you look at the faces; in color you look at the clothes.’
“However, when I began making photographs, they were in color. Shooting digitally in color for commercial work has returned me to color street photography as well. Where this goes in the long run, I do not know. For now, I shoot both.”
My favorite two series of images which Bram has created are "Street Photography" and "The Underground".
"Street Photography"
"I’m a Street Photographer. Most of my photographs originate there, in the random chaos of the street, in the ambient weirdness of everyday life. To be a Street Photographer is to be, as Alex Kozloff put it, a 'professional stranger.' I expose some film nearly every day and always carry a camera: something human, curious, funny or strange could happen. Most of the time it doesn't, but one must be ready just in case. It keeps me alert and awake to the world around while simply on my way somewhere on an unrelated errand. These images are my personal visual diary: they are not staged or created artificially. Reality is strange enough." - Richard Bram
Arezzo, Italy, 2002
Oxford Street, London, 1999
Millennium Wheel, London, 1999
"The Underground"
"I spend far too much time on the London Underground. I don't do this because I particularly like to, but because it is the fastest way of getting about London on daily errands and routines. The Underground is a great leveller - all types of people are there in the cars and on the platforms going to and fro." - Richard Bram.
Wallace, London, 2001
Angel, London, 1998
Gunslinger, London, 2000
Week 6 - Black and White film - Street Photography
For my final week of the blog I have decided to do a roll of 35mm black and white film. When I realised that I still had to do a week with film I thought long and hard about what I could do and what genre of images turn out better when on black and white film. I then decided that I would try something completely new to me, Street Photography. I have seen quite a few artists which are amazing street photographers which mostly focus on B&W photography. Out of all the colour street photography that I have seen there has only been a few artists which I have seen which achieve images which are as good or better than the artists in B&W.
I am going to be shooting my film in Truro where I live. I am going to track the journey which I take down to the city and then around the city. I am hoping that all my images come out correctly on the film so that I have more to choose from when selecting images to put on my blog. With the pictures which I choose for the blog I am hoping to tell a story of the place in which I live and the things which I see. When taking the images I will kep the quote "Make the familiar the unfamiliar" in my mind to help me to produce the best images that I can.
I am going to be shooting my film in Truro where I live. I am going to track the journey which I take down to the city and then around the city. I am hoping that all my images come out correctly on the film so that I have more to choose from when selecting images to put on my blog. With the pictures which I choose for the blog I am hoping to tell a story of the place in which I live and the things which I see. When taking the images I will kep the quote "Make the familiar the unfamiliar" in my mind to help me to produce the best images that I can.
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