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Issue Based Project - Masefield Crescent With increasing effect over the last ten years, serious photographers have experienced increasing difficulties in candidly recording members of the public, and in particular children, as they play, socialise, work and go about their general activities in public places. It is a fact that the everyday lives of our communities are no longer being seriously recorded photographically and therefore visual historical records will not be available to future generations as they are to us. Since photography began images depicting everyday street scenes have been made and they form an essential part of our visual heritage. To address this issue, the residents of Masefield Crescent kindly agreed to being photographed and hopefully the spirit of their community and the individuals within it have been recorded for posterity. |
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Tavelogue Project - Return To Deleitosa In 1950 Eugene Smith travelled to Spain after gaining the necessary permissions from the Franco Government based on the reputation of Life Magazine for whom he worked at the time. Certainly the Spanish were not aware of Smiths purpose: “My story is the struggle for food with political overtones”. He photographed the village of Deleitosa and when the images were published throughout the world, depicting the Spanish people in poverty and starving, international political opinion reacted strongly against the Spanish Regime. I visited Deleitosa in September 2006, with the intention of photographing the village and its people in the same style and utilising the same techniques as used by Smith. However it appears that not only were many of his images carefully posed and the subjects of his pictures often paid to partcipate, but some of his acclaimed images were not actually taken in Deleitosa. My images show the village as it is today. |