Birmingham Trip – creating a narrative

TYPES OF IMAGESTYPES OF IMAGES• narratives :

– a story or an account of a sequence of events in the order in which they happened.

– the art or process of telling a story or giving an account of something.

Compositionally you can use the following types of shots to create a story:

• Establishing • Detailed, • Main and • Concluding shots.

Practical Task – Birmingham TripYou have to document a short story, your narrative, on Birmingham using one of the following styles of documentary:

•Portraits of people at work•Street photography•Street portraits•Documentary landscape

RESEARCH a photographer that shoots in one of these styles of documentary photography for your artist comparison.

People at work

An aspect of Social documentary photography, it’s the recording of humans in their natural condition with a camera. Often it also refers to a socially critical genre of photography dedicated to showing the life of underprivileged or disadvantaged people, influenced by the work of lewis hine and Jacob Riis

Martin Parr – black country stories

Jonathan Bielaski

Prakash Sach – portraits of workers

Street Portraits

• Engage with your subjects, be confident and approachable

• Smile!• Who will you photograph and why? • Ask a question – get a quote from each

subject for your captions• If you get rejected, try and try again! Don’t

give up!

Nick Eagle – Portraits of people in bham

http://www.bleaf.co.uk.

Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton

Niall McDermid

Gillian Wearing

Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say

Phillip Lorca Di Corca - heads

Street style portraits by Karuna Gurung

Street Photography1) Use of Juxtaposition to express humor or something more serious2) Decisive moment3) Documenting an incident4 )A Personal view on a location5) Public areas6) Ensuring every image has a point/concept/story or purpose7) Use of lighting

Nick Turpin

Matt Smith, London

Beat Streuli - New Street

See more in the online gallery here: http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/gallery/673/new_street/

Bruce Gilden – Head On'I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.'

Henri Cartier Bresson

The Photography Collective – Orchestra of Disorientation

• Based in Birmingham – street photography and documentation made into film: https://vimeo.com/20236127

Documentary landscapeCompositionally you can use the following types of shots to create a story with your documentary landscape:

• Establishing • Detailed, • Main and • Concluding shots.

Natan dvir

Clarissa Bonet – City Space

• photographer Derek Fairbrother took a series of images from the same spot in Birmingham’s Chamberlain square between 1963 and 1986.

Video:• http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/10/fairbrother-time-lapse-sequence/

“I wanted the buildings to look like models, and to photograph them from above on sunny days so there was a sense of a singular light source” – Tom Merilion

Aerial photographs of Birmingham. Merilion achieved this by photographing from a small aircraft flying low over the city centre. He used an architectural lens the wrong way round, with a selective focus and a polarizing filter to emphasize the colours of sky and foliage.

Robert Walker

Series of work: metropoli project  2000 – 2003. Includes images on Birmingham and other major UK cities.

http://www.johndavies.uk.com/

Matt Murtagh