Today's session was primarily focussed with the street photography pinhole task. There was a bit of discussion around Sean O'Hagan's article, and we had a look at the work of some of the contemporary photographers mentioned in it. Matt Stuart, Stephen McLaren, Stephen Gill, and Paul Graham.
Matt Stuart
Stephen McLaren
Stephen Gill
Paul Graham
Noticeable that the first three all work in London, which I think, as a location for a street photographer to work with, will differ largely from Coventry. Stuart's and Mclaren's work in particular, both deal with 'instant moments' and slim opportunities. They shoot an incredible amount of photographs, of which a very small percentage are shown. Obviously this is not quite viable with pinhole, but we can still draw aspects from their work - the clever composition arrangements, the humour, the reliance on natural light, the display the unusual and the quirky of 'the street' - and then take these further, or in a different direction, with our pinhole format.
We also had a technical surgery, post to follow on that.
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