The hidden rules of English behaviour — Kate Fox
"I don't see why anthropologists feel they have to travel to remote corners of the world and get dysentery in order to study strange tribal cultures with bizarre beliefs and mysterious customs, when the weirdest, most puzzling tribe of all is right here on our doorstep."
SIRC - social issues research centre
I have concentrated on the 'human condition' for the concept of the whole Peoples breif. For my fine art images i have concentrated on the human condition within classes, apearence, rutines performed on a daily basis and in Their environment.
With my candid photography i have again tried to capture the working class, in their environment either in work or spending their social time.
With my environmental potraits i have looked at people who are working class working in their environment.
this image is of a polish man woking at a fish and chip shop in Blackpool. ther are certain elements of this photograph which i could of improved on just as widening the frame to involve more of the environment and taking a few more shot's from more angles.
With the alien and forign environment theme i thought about the places that are familiar to me, the kind of places that i take for guranted as i see them everyday at a sertain time of the day. ive found when you walk thru a place that is usually crowded with people or at a time when you wouldnt walk down it seems to have a different feel altogether, secluded, alienated. like it isnt the norm and had become alien / forign.
Below are a few examples to explain futher.
Below are a few examples to explain futher.
Here is some background reserch on people and environmental shot. I am thinking of doing a coprate environmental photogograph for unit 5. here are a few examples to explain further
Paul Graham
The two images above by Paul Graham i particulaly like, they have reminded me of an exhibition i have seen where the photographer had done a personal project of the unemployed.. i would like to carry out somthing similar to this.
Another aspect i have been looking at is potraying different classes of people in relation to their jobs. this will also be intertwined with my coprate and environmental photography.
martin parr
Martin parr
Paul Graham
Paul Graham
The two images above by Paul Graham i particulaly like, they have reminded me of an exhibition i have seen where the photographer had done a personal project of the unemployed.. i would like to carry out somthing similar to this.
Another aspect i have been looking at is potraying different classes of people in relation to their jobs. this will also be intertwined with my coprate and environmental photography.
Here are my own images that relate to important and significant places to me. With this photography work i am trying to bring into context the kind of places i have been brought up in and around and what places i am familiar with the most in relation to upbringing and lifestyle in the past and present.
Donavon Wylie
After settling in London in 1997, Donovan Wylie embarked on a photographic project exploring an aspect of his background in Northern Ireland. The project is primarily focused on his memories and close relationship to his uncle. Out of this comes a re-examination of a background, a Protestant rural background, in the context of the 1970s, when Wylie was a boy. Combining his grandfather's diaries, extended family's scrapbooks and snaps, as well as his own photographs, Wylie gives a subjective view of a history that shaped him and the environment from which he came.
'This project was a strange mixture of not "looking" and then being taken by what you see and feel at a particular time. This seems to be the most exciting thing about making pictures – that they come to you.'
Below is a link to an audio file which contains a quote from Donavon Wylie. It has given me inspiration to carry out a similar theme to my Important and Significant places breif. Instead of relating my memories and close relationship with a person im goin to realate it to a place of memories and that has shaped me in my childhood.
below are some more images that further illustrate the theme of personal upringing and lifestyle.
The images above are key examples of the kind of elements i tend to encounter on a day to day basis within my lifestyle, (steriotypical middle class locations. bus stations, council estates, small dingy british cafe's)
Here are some film clips and trailers from some of my favourite modern british films. All of which are surounding social issues in the UK which is one of the elements I am trying to bring through my photography as a theme. Most of the films below I had already seen to begin with and a few I have recently seen to further my research. I particularly like British films due to the fact that it has more of an impact on me (and maybe other Brits) because of the real life aspect of what goes on around working class areas and with working class people. These films perfectly display these elements of British life and class, this is also something else I would like to display in my photography around my corporate shot.
so some of my favourate films.. enjoy!
Above the trailer and below a clip from one of my favourite britsh films This Is England, this film is based around the 80's era and is about social issues in the UK around that time period, mainly racism. this film is quite relevant due to the fact that these social issues still exist in the UK today, and still remain to be quite a strong social issue.
Below is one of my favourite scenes from the film.
below is a an excellent film called Harry Brown this film had a great impact on my research due to it being set in a more recent era. There are a lot of social issues in this film which are being debated politically today, such as knife crime, gun crime, drugs, teenage behaviour, class division in areas and questions and debate on our authority figures such as the police doing their job. A documentation of how youth is not just portrayed today in these working class areas but of the amount problems the teenage youth today cause and how serious this issue is becoming.
fantasic film!
Another britsh film Rise Of The Foot Soldier. This film is based on the social issues in the UK and gangsters in London. Based around nightclubs and bouncers in London (70's and 80's), the connections, and what goes on behind closed doors.
Here I have come across a clothing website and the intro fits the same scene as this film.
http://www.weekendoffender.com/
so some of my favourate films.. enjoy!
Above the trailer and below a clip from one of my favourite britsh films This Is England, this film is based around the 80's era and is about social issues in the UK around that time period, mainly racism. this film is quite relevant due to the fact that these social issues still exist in the UK today, and still remain to be quite a strong social issue.
Below is one of my favourite scenes from the film.
below is a an excellent film called Harry Brown this film had a great impact on my research due to it being set in a more recent era. There are a lot of social issues in this film which are being debated politically today, such as knife crime, gun crime, drugs, teenage behaviour, class division in areas and questions and debate on our authority figures such as the police doing their job. A documentation of how youth is not just portrayed today in these working class areas but of the amount problems the teenage youth today cause and how serious this issue is becoming.
fantasic film!
Another britsh film Rise Of The Foot Soldier. This film is based on the social issues in the UK and gangsters in London. Based around nightclubs and bouncers in London (70's and 80's), the connections, and what goes on behind closed doors.
Here I have come across a clothing website and the intro fits the same scene as this film.
http://www.weekendoffender.com/
With Wilderness and countryside
