Research: Saul Leiter and influence on Colour Street Photography

Research I chose to research Saul when I came across the phrase ‘Instinctively for him, colour was the picture.’ (The Photographers’ Gallery, 2016).  This is a phrase I would not have expected to see in an article about street photography and so it caught my attention.   My work on this course is all about exploration […]

Research: Garry Winogrand and his photography of crowds

Research The Man I have selected this photographer for specific research because of the work he produced in response to his fellowship award from Guggenheim to investigate the effects that media has on public events.  Given the context of media, this tended to mean that he was photographing large events and therefore crowds. His approach […]

Research: Street Photography – Influences for subject of “Crowds”

Research Having selected Crowds as the topic for Assignment 2, I felt that Street Photography could perhaps give me some interesting areas to research over and above the suggested photographers from within the course text which are more focussed on researching specific lens / aperture techniques. Whilst undertaking my research I looked into the following photographers: […]

Research: Landscape Photographers Calendar Workshop / Tony Worobiec

I attended the RPS Landscape Photographers Calendar Workshop training course (Worobiec, 2017) to pursue further my interest in photographing landscapes and in particular, to explore further the interest that my studies have triggered in the idea that not all photographs have to have the ‘wow’ magazine cover look in order to have value; in fact […]