Final Major Project - VISUAL OBSESSION

 My Final Major Project . . . the title 'Visual Obsession' suggests that our conclusive project for the foundation degree in photographic media should encourage us to follow a genre of photography that we wish to take to a professional level within the big wide world once graduating from the course . . . although I do enjoy many different genre's within photography I have to say that my 'Visual Obsession' is distinctly of a photo-journalistic or documentary style.

My passion for photography began in my late teens whilst working in the breathtaking grounds of the Royal Berkshire Hotel in Ascot. At that time my adoration was for capturing the beauty of the landscape however after a long gap year in my studies after completing the BTEC National Diploma in Photography at Blackburn College in 2002, my photographic obsession developed onto people photography, even more so during the duration I have spent on the FD course, and most especially after the birth of my daughter Shannon Jade 07/09/03 to capturing meaningful and personal moments of my daughter's childhood.

Self-Portrait
A usual awakening to yet another busy day . . . within my self-portrait I wanted to show how the majority of my mornings begin with my little sleeping beauty next to me after sneaking into bed to be with her mum during the night

After being luckily selected to join the University on the trip of a lifetime to Cape Town, South Africa in early October 2011, I have decided to coincide the two briefs and submit and exhibit my final photographic work on documenting and representing the ways of the North Western life, using my daughter as a main subject area within the brief to show sentimental and personal positive aspects of her life she experiences living within this area of England.

Having gained a great insight into the live world of newspaper photography by accompanying a well known local freelance commercial photographer Clive Lawrence, who has had 20 years experience in the business and also won the News Quest Photographer of the Year award on many occasions between 2003 to 2007,
http://www.clivelawrencephotography.com/, has given me the idea to source out local PR and community organised events to which as a family we will attend and I shall document. 

As the famous saying goes 'don't put all your eggs in one basket' it is always wise to have a back up idea therefore I also plan to contact Blackburn Rovers Community Trust in order to document the work and activities they are involved in the local community. Our University's Lead Officer for Work Based Learning and Employability Unit, Nicolas Hall, has advised that we need to be in contact with Duncan Kinloch. After my many failed telephone attempts to Duncan's office throughout April luckily our Yr 1 FD Course Leader, Katherine Suggitt has now arranged a meeting for us to attend and meet Duncan personally on Wednesday 11th May 2011 in the hope to secure long term links with the football club for future photographic opportunities, and at present most importantly to hopefully obtain a further body of work to exhibit in Cape Town, South Africa.
  
Inspiring Photographers

My main idea has initially been inspired by the works of the American photographer Sally Mann who like myself has a passion for photographing her own children, her third collection published in 1992 'Immediate Family' is possibly her most famously known collection of images; although her photographic techniques of using a large format camera would not be appropriate for my brief as I plan to use equipment and photographic processes more relevantly used within documentary or photojournalism, such as using my 35mm film SLR and my Canon 50D DSLR.




SALLY MANN 
 IMMEDIATE FAMILY




"The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best . . . . unless you photograph what you love your not going to make good art" Sally Mann




Blowing Bubbles, 1987

Easter Dress, 1986

Yard Eggs, 1991


"These are photographs of my children living their lives . . . many of these pictures are intimate, some are fictions and some are fantastic, but most are ordinary things every mother has seen - a wet bed, a bloody nose, candy cigarettes. They dress up, they pout and posture, they paint their bodies, they dive like otters in the dark river"  Sally Mann, Immediate Family



The New Mothers, 1989



Jessie and the Deer, 1985


Sorry Game, 1989


"Sally Mann's "Immediate Family" shows us the sensuous and sometimes disturbing side of childhood. The controversy that "Immediate Family" stirred up is a direct reflection of the times in which it was produced, and says more about the adult viewer than of the child subject. Sally Mann chooses to explore the concept of childhood and "growing up" using a variety of the sensual, reality and the fantastic; all through a maternal eye. 

"Immediate Family" is a collection of photographs taken in rural Virginia, where the children, and Mann herself, spent their childhoods. Mann photographed the children and the landscape through a massive 8 by 10 view camera, staging elaborate portraits that still lie within the realm of possibility. Mann states that these photographs are "of my children living their lives here too. Many of these pictures are intimate, some are fictitious and some are fantastic, but most are of ordinary things that every mother has seen" (Mann) In most of the images, the children appear nude, or partially nude. 

They posture, as children do, but through a combination of suggestive titles and lack of clothing the images take on a more overtly sexualized appearance. Many have hastily labeled this as indecent, and consequently, something they would rather ignore. "
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/76038/sally_manns_immediate_family_the_unflinching.html?cat=9





 I think this photograph titled 'Popsicle Drips' may have caused the most controversial debate in the reasoning's as to why Mann would exhibit such a image of her child, especially as the title suggests of a sexual context. However I believe that if she did mean any thing sinister in regards to her photographing such a personal private area of her own child then I believe that she would not have exhibited the image at all and kept it locked away. More than likely her child had been innocently playing out in his birthday suit on a hot summer's day and by accident spilt a drink all over himself . . . typical of a child . . . clumsiness.




I can quite easily believe that everyone of us will have been guilty at one stage of our lives for wetting the bed, and Mann has quite clearly captured this image to evoke this true event that happens to us all within childhood. I feel that these images may have shocked many audiences more so as they are not perceived as the norm to take and especially to share with the world however again Mann is just highlighting the fact that  why shouldn't all areas of childhood be acknowledged.


My only negative opinion of showing her children within this light to the world may quite possibly cause her children embarrassment within their adult life? But then again what parent doesn't embarrass their children!






IAN BERRY 
THE ENGLISH


What photographs can therefore depict a sense of our British cultured childhood? As new generations are born they reflect on their ancestors, living similarly to them but in a more contemporary existence. To understand our culture we need to look to the past and photojournalist Ian Berry's 'The English' is most inspirational.


IAN BERRY / MAGNUM PHOTOS
Ian Berry was born in Lancashire, England. He made his reputation in South Africa, where he worked for the Daily Mail and later for Drum magazine. He was the only photographer to document the massacre at Sharpeville in 1960, and his photographs were used in the trial to prove the victims' innocence.

Henri Cartier-Bresson invited Berry to join Magnum in 1962, when he was based in Paris. He moved to London in 1964 to become the first contract photographer for the Observer Magazine. Since then assignments have taken him around the world: he has documented Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia; conflicts in Israel, Ireland, Vietnam and Congo; famine in Ethiopia; and apartheid in South Africa. The major body of work produced in South Africa is represented in two of his books: Black and Whites: L'Afrique du Sud (with a foreword by the then French president François Mitterrand), and Living Apart (1996).

Important editorial assignments have included work for National Geographic, Fortune, Stern, Geo, national Sunday magazines, Esquire, Paris-Match and Life. Berry has also reported on the political and social transformations in China and the former USSR. Recent projects have involved tracing the route of the Silk Road through Turkey, Iran and southern Central Asia to northern China for Conde Nast Traveler, photographing Berlin for a Stern supplement, the Three Gorges Dam project in China for the Telegraph Magazine, Greenland for a book on climate control and child slavery in Africa.


Children playing on deserted ground in docklands, 1936 
GB. The English. 1974. - England. Devon. Constantine Bay. English couple take shelter from the wind on a summer's day. - Beach, British (nationality), Coastline, Devon, Exterior, Man - 25 to 45 years, Pipe, Small boat, Smoker, Summer, Summer holidays, White people, Wind




GB. Suffolk. Bury St Edmunds. - G.B. ENGLAND. Suffolk. Bury St Edmunds. 1973. - Baby boy - 0 to 3 years, Baby girl - 0 to 3 years, Ball (object), Child being carried, Coat, Daughter, Exterior, Man - 18 to 25 years, Man - 25 to 45 years, Mother, Mother, Pram, Professional sportsman, Rugby, Shawl, Sleep, Son, Sports ground, Suffolk, Uniform, View from rear, White people, Woman - 18 to 25 years, Woman - 25 to 45 years




GB. The English. 1974. - GB. ENGLAND. Cumbria. Sedbergh. Farmers with their prize winning sheep in torrential rain at the Sedbergh agricultural show. 1974. - Agricultural show, British (nationality), Cumbria, Exterior, Farmer, Hat, Man - 25 to 45 years, Rain, Raincoat, Sheep, Umbrella, Wet, White peopleGB. ENGLAND. Cumbria. Sedbergh. Farmers with their prize winning sheep in torrential rain at the Sedbergh agricultural show.    1974                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  



GB. The English. 1975. - GB. ENGLAND. London. A small girl and her mother listen to musicians in the Battersea Hall. 1975. - Classical music, Concert, Curiosity, Daughter, Depth of field, Girl - 3 to 13 years, Interior, London (all), London (South), Look, see, Mother, Musician, Seated, Town hall, View from rear, White people, Woman - 25 to 45 years




GB. The English. 1974. - GB. ENGLAND. Consett, County Durham. 1974. - Air pollution, Bicycle, Boy - 3 to 13 years, British (nationality), Child, Cyclist, Durham, Exterior, Girl - 3 to 13 years, Park (garden), Smoke, White people




GB. The English. 1974. - G.B. ENGLAND. Cumbria. Kendal. 1974. - Boy - 3 to 13 years, Brass band, British (nationality), Cap, Carrying, Church, Cumbria, Drum (instrument), Exterior, Group of people, Latin script, Look, see, Mischievousness, Necktie, Parade, Percussion, Sheep, Shirt, Tree (all), Uniform, Waiting, White people





GB. The English. - GB. ENGLAND. Berkshire. Visitors to a country show take a rest by sitting and leading on a prize cow resting in its stall. 1997. - Agricultural fair, Berkshire, Boy - 3 to 13 years, Cattle, Girl - 3 to 13 years, Interior, Leaning (not on elbows), Lying down, Reflection (thought), Seated, Show Exhibition, Waiting, White people, Woman (all ages)
GB. ENGLAND. Berkshire. Visitors to a country show take a rest by sitting and leading on a prize cow resting in its stall. 1997.


GB. The English. 1975. - G.B. ENGLAND. Lancaster. Blackpool. Tower Ballroom. 1975. - Balcony, Ballroom dancing, Blackpool, Contrast (of subject), Dance, Dance floor, Dance hall, Fashionable, Interior, Shadow, Spotlight, Teenage boy - 13 to 18 years old, Two people, White people




GB. Lancashire. Blackburn. - G.B. ENGLAND. Blackburn. Asian and white children play together in the towns multi-racial society. 1976. - Asian - South Asian origin, Boy - 3 to 13 years, Communal Living, England, Exterior, Friendship, Girl - 3 to 13 years, Immigration, Metallic structure, Multiracial, Playground (park), Playing, Railings, Seated, Summer, White people
                      G.B. ENGLAND. Blackburn. Asian and white children play together in the towns multi-racial society. 1976.


GB. London. Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee. - G.B. ENGLAND. London. Fulham. Old lady with her dog outside her front door during the Queen's Jubilee year. In her front window is a portrait of the Queen with Union Jack flags. 1977. - British (nationality), Dog, ELIZABETH II-Effigy, Exterior, Fulham, Housing, Jubilee, Nation's flag, Old age, Patriotism, Pensioner, Pet, Poster, Private house, Slipper, Spectacles, Union Jack, White people, Woman - 60 years and older, Woman (all ages)






G.B. ENGLAND. London. Fulham. Old lady with her dog outside her front door during the Queen's Jubilee year. In her front window is a portrait of the Queen with Union Jack flags. 1977.

30 years ago marked the celebration of a Royal Wedding, the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981 and very soon a further Royal Wedding will mark a date in English history when their son Prince William will marry Kate Middleton on Friday 29th April 2011.
Many school's across the whole of England will be celebrating this joyous occasion, my daughter's school is also one of them holding a Blue, White and Red theme dress code day to mark the special occasion on Thursday 28th April 2011. Not being the day of the Wedding, as Friday 29th April has been announced as a further public bank holiday in the English calendar.
As such I have gained approval via the head teacher, Mr G Garlick of St.Johns with St Augustine C of E Primary School to document the children celebrating the days events.



At St John with St Augustine we aim within a caring and Christian environment to educate every child in our safekeeping to achieve his or her true potential. We seek to create a welcoming, stimulating, positive and disciplined learning enviroment where children develop independence, interdependence, self confidence and self esteem.

We value Christian beliefs and practices as we are a Church of England School. We seek to encourage an understanding of faith and promote Christian values through the experiences we offer to our pupils. We recognise and appreciate the diversity and richness of other cultures.

We value creativity in our children and provide a curriculum that allows our pupils to see things in a new way that enables children to think independently and learn to make connections in ways which are critically important in a rapidly changing world.  We value children in our school as unique individuals. They are encouraged to grow in confidence and self esteem and to aim high.

We value children in our school being happy, valued and secure.  We aim to create an exciting, rewarding and challenging school environment  where parents and visitors are welcomed.  We encourage them to have pride in their school and involvement running it.                                                                   http://www.st-john-augustine-primary.ik.org/

Below is a photograph of one of the letters which the head teacher sent out to all the primary school children's parents to advise that I would be documenting the day and to advise them if they had any concerns to contact the school direct. Although there is no law stating that it is offence to take photographs of children it is always expected to have the parents consent in the event that their children's image could be used and exhibited for a particular purpose.




Photographing children



There are no laws against taking photos of children, but someone taking an unhealthy interest can rightly expect to attract unwelcome attention from the authorities (and quite probably passers by) pretty sharpish.



Be also mindful that if you're taking pictures in areas where dodgy folks, drug dealers and ne'er do wells may be in view, they're unlikely to be pleased with the attention and probably won't be bothered about the niceties of the law in their response.

If someone asks you to stop take pictures of them, it's generally a good idea to do so.

Update: According to external link this blog, Home Office Minister Tony McNulty MP has commented on the current legal situation regarding privacy.

"There is no legal restriction on photography in public places, and there is no presumption of privacy for individuals in a public place.

It is for the Chief Constable to ensure that Officers and Police Community Support Officers are acting appropriately with regards to photography in public places, and any queries regarding this should be addressed to the Chief Constable.

However decisions may be made locally to restrict photography, for example to protect children. Any questions on such local decisions should also be addressed to the force concerned." 



permissions and children

In general the law is no different for children than it is for adults but permissions in schools and other areas where children or vulnerable adults are cared for are a something of a special case. Child protection law is a considerable mess where this photography is concerned, and staff are placed in a difficult position where they are more or less obliged to be obstructive 'just in case'.
Under the Children Act 1989, children who are 'at risk' acquire special rights of privacy ('the rights of the child') for children who are a ward of court, subject to a child protection order, or on the at-risk register. Part of this right to privacy is anonymity about their status. Most schools and similar institutions have a fair number of such children and - here's the kicker - staff potentially commit a criminal offence by allowing their rights to be violated. A perfectly innocent photograph that (say) allows the location of a child to be deduced by an estranged violent parent could land the staff member in gaol.
In practice this need not be a problem, so long as the institution is aware which children may be photographed and which may not. Most schools now maintain registers of parental permissions, and will know which children may not be included.
Occasionally Criminal Records Bureau checks are discussed in connection with photography. CRB checks are designed to ensure children are not exposed to carers with prior convictions nor other history of suspected child abuse. CRB checks are not the same as Police checks, which are available to individuals at a local police station, as a personal record of criminal history.
At present there is no mechanism whereby freelance photographers can obtain CRB checks. They were designed specifically for vetting of carers and are only obtainable by employers.
Some specialist schools photographers have them, obtained by the companies that employ them, as do staff photographers employed by Times Educational Supplement. But lack of a CRB check should not be a barrier to photography; all contractors and visitors are required to always be supervised and accompanied by CRB checked staff whilst on the premises, by OFSTED regulations. Supervision protects everybody, and allows the staff to ensure no permissions issues arise.


There are many Morals and Ethics which must be adhered to whilst photographing in a photo-journalistic newsworthy or even photo-essay style. The photographer has a responsibility to the public to employ that they are capturing and recording a true depiction of the subject in hand.
I have previously researched into these requirements and for further information in regards to the morals and ethics please see my previous blog http://joannestudholme.blogspot.com/2010/10/morals-and-ethics.html

The Red, White and Blue School Celebration Photo shoot

Below are my contact sheets from the day. The children had a celebratory picnic within the school yard and later danced around a Maypole which is a customary British tradition to celebrate May Day and the beginnings of Summer.








     

 
Below are my final edited images which I desired all to be finalised showing rich vibrant colours; the true richness of Red, White and Blue colours representing our great nation, Great Britain. Our next generation of children celebrating their first Royal Marriage, depicting their love and devotion to the country that they live in and achieving memorable Patriot images.

My variable editing techniques via Lightroom 2.0 are achieved via the following tools as follows:
  • Pre set- General 
  • Pre set- Punch
  • Temparature
  • Highlight Recovery
  • Adjustment Brush and Graduated Filter - to correct any further over exposure and under exposure within my RAW files
  • Tint
  • Contrast
  • Vibrance


DSLR settings - ISO 100, 38mm, F13 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 41mm, F8 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 41mm, F8 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 75mm, F9.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 38mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)


DSLR settings - ISO 100, 35mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 30mm, F9.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 53mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 75mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 90mm, F13 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F9.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F9.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F6.7 @ 1/250 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F13 @ 1/30 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 75mm, F9.5 @ 1/90 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 38mm, F9.5 @ 1/180 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F8 @ 1/180 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 50mm, F8 @ 1/180 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 70mm, F6.7 @ 1/180 - White balance (AWB)


I also wanted to capture the children's movement as they were dancing around the Maypole so I slowed down my shutter speed to achieve my required effect.
DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F16 @ 1/45 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F6.7 @ 1/250 - White balance (AWB)

These two images are my favourite from the entire shoot, I feel that they really engaged the viewer with a sure sense of British culture. Maypole dancing being a traditional English custom in the celebration of the beginning of Summer.

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F8 @ 1/250 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F5.6 @ 1/250 - White balance (AWB)

Year 2 at St.Johns with St.Augustine Primary School, Accrington, Lancashire

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F6.7 @ 1/250 - White balance (AWB)


  IAN BERRY'S EDITORIAL WORK OF SOUTH AFRICA
(Please refer to my earlier post in regards to further information about the photographic agency MAGNUM PHOTOS   http://joannestudholme.blogspot.com/2010/10/magnum.html )

As it is known Ian Berry made his reputation via his photographs he took whilst in South Africa. Coincidently having taken pictures within Cape Town and surrounding areas to that which our selected few from the department will be exhibiting their work within Cape Town at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.  Having little knowledge of the country I will be visiting in October I feel that looking into this section of his work will give me a greater insight into the possible differences or even similarities South Africa has compared to the North West of England.


SOUTH AFRICA. 1984. - SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Province. Muizenberg. Blacks invade a Whites only beach during the apartheid era. 1984. - Adult - 18 to 25 years, Adult - 25 to 45 years old, Anachronism, Apartheid, Beach, Beach game, Black African, Black people (all), Cap, Cape (Western), Contrast (of subject), Couple (heterosexual), Hand in hand, Lovers, Man - 18 to 25 years, Man - 25 to 45 years, Man (all ages), Movement, Multiracial, Physical movement, Playing, Running, Sea & ocean, Shorts, Summer, Sunshine, Teenage boy - 13 to 18 years old, Two people, View from rear, Walk, White people, Wind, Woman - 18 to 25 years, Woman - 25 to 45 years




SOUTH AFRICA. Capetown Carnival. 1960. - SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. The coon carnival, a traditional New Year celebration in the coloured district six area. 1960. - Accordion, Apartheid, Black African, Black people (all), Carnival, Cigarette, Hat, Interior, Poverty, Racial segregation, Smoker



SOUTH AFRICA - SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. Archbishop Desmond Tutu gives the morning service on St. George's Catherdral. 2003. - Anglicanism, Anti Apartheid, Black African, Capetown, Cathedral, Depth of field, Handshake, Interior, Joy, Laughter, Man - 60 years and older, Movement, Nobel Prize, Open mouth, Political figure, Protestantism, Religious ceremony, Religious dress, South Africa (all), Spectacles, TUTU Desmond
SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. Archbishop Desmond Tutu gives the morning service on St. George's Catherdral. 2003.



SOUTH AFRICA. The Afrikaaner. 1968. - SOUTH AFRICA. Muizenberg. A nanny remains on the pavement while her charges play on a whites-only beach. 1968. - Alignment, Apartheid, Apron, Beach hut, Black African, Boy - 3 to 13 years, Cap, Child, Contrast (of subject), Girl - 3 to 13 years, Mother's help, Name of place in caption, Playing, Racial segregation, Reflection (thought), Sand, Seated, Swing, Waiting, Wall (outer), White people, Woman - 45 to 60 years
SOUTH AFRICA. Muizenberg. A nanny remains on the pavement while her charges play on a whites-only beach. 1968.

SOUTH AFRICA. 1984. - SOUTH AFRICA. Transvaal (Gauteng). Johannesburg. African beggar waves to a passing balloon carrying white boy in front of the city hall. 1984. - Apartheid, Balloon (toy), Beggar, Black African, Black people (all), Boy - 3 to 13 years, Contrast (of subject), Johannesburg, Lying down, Multiracial, Pavement, Pedestrian, Racial segregation, White people


SOUTH AFRICA. Transvaal (Gauteng). Johannesburg. African beggar waves to a passing balloon carrying white boy in front of the city hall. 1984.

SOUTH AFRICA. 1984. - SOUTH AFRICA. Natal. A plaster bust of the founder in Natal's Ghandi Centre, which consisted of a clinic, school, library andd printing house. 1984. - Adult, Apartheid, Black African, Black people (all), Chair, Child, Group of people, Hospital, Interior, Racial segregation, Seated, Waiting, Woman (all ages)
SOUTH AFRICA. Natal. A plaster bust of the founder in Natal's Ghandi Centre, which consisted of a clinic, school, library andd printing house. 1984.

Various - S. AFRICA. Black churchgoers enter the water for total immersion baptismal ceremony near Capetown. - Apartheid, Baptism, Beach, Black African, Black people (all), Cape (Western), Christianity, Group of people, Hand in hand, Name of place in caption, Physical movement, Racial segregation, South Africa (all), Surroundings of ..., Town, Walk, Worshiper
yS. AFRICA. Black churchgoers enter the water for total immersion baptismal ceremony near Capetown

SOUTH AFRICA - SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Province. Oudtshoorn. White kids use a poster of a Black child for target practice at an agricultural show. 2003. - Apartheid, Baby 0-3 years, Black African, Boy - 3 to 13 years, Brutality, Firearm, Group of people, Poster, Racism, Rifle, South Africa (all), White people

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Province. Oudtshoorn. White kids use a poster of a Black child for target practice at an agricultural show. 2003.

SOUTH AFRICA - SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. Desmond Tutu joins parishoners in local coffee shop after his morning service at the St. George's Cathedral. 2003. - Anglicanism, Anti Apartheid, Black African, Cafe (bar), Capetown, Conversation, Depth of field, Grimace, Group of people, Interior, Listener, Look, see, Man - 60 years and older, Multiracial, Political figure, Seated, South Africa (all), Spectacles, TUTU Desmond, White people, Woman - 45 to 60 years


SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. Desmond Tutu joins parishoners in local coffee shop after his morning service at the St. George's Cathedral. 2003.

SOUTH AFRICA. The Afrikaaner. 1968. - South Africa. Springs. Two ladies dancing at a traditional Afrikaner dance festival. 1968 - Apartheid, Chiaroscuro, Group of people, Proper name in caption, Traditional clothes, Traditional dance, Traditional festival, White people, Woman - 25 to 45 years, Woman (all ages)

South Africa. Springs. Two ladies dancing at a traditional Afrikaner dance festival. 1968

SOUTH AFRICA. The Afrikaaner. 1968. - SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. Street Scene. 1960. - Apartheid, Black African, Cigar, Eccentric dress, Jacket (formal), Man (all ages), Multiracial, Racial segregation, Shorts, Street, White people



Further inspiration from a many of great documentary photographers, some famous and some unknown . . . who all contributed towards 'The Family of Man' the most popular exhibition in the history of photography. The exhibition was to mark essential oneness of mankind throughout the world"



To view the majority of the images that were exhibited and also published please refer to my video research via   http://joannestudholme.blogspot.com/2011/05/family-of-man-1955.html 


"We sought and selected photographs, made in all parts of the world, of the gamut of life from birth to death with emphasis on the daily relationships of man to himself, to his family, to the community and to the world we live in - subject matter ranging from babies to philosophers, from the kindergarten to the university, from primitive peoples to the Councils of the United Nations. Photographs of lovers and marriage and child-bearing, of the family unit with its joys, trials and tribulations, its deep- rooted devotions and its antagonisms. Photographs of the individual and the family unit in its reactions to the beginnings of life and continuing on through death and burial. Photographs concerned with man in relation to his environment, to the beauty and richness of the earth he has inherited and what he has done with his inheritance , the good and the great things, the stupid and destructive things. Photographs concerned  with the religions rather than social consciousness. Photograph's concerned with man's dreams and aspirations and photographs of the flaming creative forces of love and truth and the corrosive evil inherent in the lie" 
Introduction by Edward Steichen, The Family of Man 



The exhibition clearly shows the very essence of the world that we live in, opposites is what keeps the world in motion as with every child born another person dies. The harshness and joy and happiness of life displayed by images depicting the very essence of what it is to be human.
The above photograph which was chosen to close the exhibition is one of my favourites . . . "A world to be born under your footsteps"


THINK OF ENGLAND | MARTIN PARR

GB. Think of England. - GB. England. Sedlescombe. British flags at a fair. 1995-1999. - British (nationality), Chair, Depth of field, Dress, East Sussex, Music Day, Nation's flag, Patriotism, Rest, Seated, Summer, To hide, Union Jack, White people, Woman - 60 years and older
GB. England. Sedlescombe. British flags at a fair. 1995-1999.



I think Martin Parr is of great inspiration when it comes to depicting exactly what it is to be English. Stereotyping and being very Cliché may seem to many not visually stimulating to us born and bread in England, however weather we are born North or South divide we all still follow traditional customs and participate in cultural habits; however the retrospect that is to take our final images to exhibit in a foreign country then this truth I feel is exactly what needs to be displayed within my final selected photographs and it is with a similar style to that of Martin Parr I wish to pursue.

Martin Parr

Was born in Surrey, UK, 1952
Perhaps the most successful British photographer of his generation, Magnum member Martin Parr creates colorful images that, ranging in subject from crumbling British seaside towns to international hubs of consumer culture, offer witty, unblinking insights into contemporary life.
Parr studied photography at Manchester College of Art in 1970. In 1983, he began taking photographs in New Brighton, a run-down seaside resort on the Wirral outside Liverpool in England. Built as a Victorian rival to its elegant namesake in the south, by the turn of the century it had become a favorite resort for working-class families and day-trippers from towns in the industrial north west. By the time Parr got there, three years into Thatcher's new government, New Brighton was in severe decline and so were the working- classes. Instead of the grainy black and white in which photographers had traditionally reflected Britain (particularly working-class Britain) for the past half-century, Parr took a medium-format camera, flash, and color film. It showed New Brighton and its holidaymakers in an unforgiving light. There was no safe veil of nostalgia, nothing subdued by black and white.
The pictures made Parr's reputation as a British photographer with a new vision of the country and its people. Since then, his work has developed around themes relating to contemporary, western reality: mass tourism, mass consumption, mass-marketing, global homogenization. Where photojournalists had habitually concentrated on the Third World and the starving, Parr observes the First World: the over-stimulated and the overfed. When Parr joined Magnum in 1988, he was a controversial choice. To many of the members Parr was the antithesis of the 'concerned photographer'. Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of Magnum's founders, described Parr as being from 'a different solar system', and it was true. Parr was photographing a country, Britain, that had changed so rapidly it barely resembled the one even he had grown up in. But few of us who live there could fail to recognize it now http://www.picassomio.com/martin-parr.html

Typically English . . .

GB. Think of England. - GB. England. Eastbourne. A giant ice cream on the sea front. 1995-1999. - Depth of field, East Sussex, Exterior, Flower, Giant (oversized), Ice cream, Sign (advertising), Statue, Walk, Woman - 60 years and older          GB. Think of England. - GB. ENGLAND. Frome. 1995-1999. - Agricultural show, Cap, Cloud, Competition, Farmer, Latin script, Leaning (on elbows), Man - 60 years and older, Prize, Reverie, Rural life, White people

GB. England. Eastbourne. A giant ice cream on the sea front.          Martin Parr GB. ENGLAND. Frome. 1995-1999.
1995-1999.

GB. Think of England. - GB. England. Frome. 1995-1999. - Agricultural show, Depth of field, Depth of field, Exterior, Farmer, Man - 60 years and older, Out of focus, Rural life, Somerset, White people
GB. Think of England. - G.B. ENGLAND. Eastbourne. 1995-1999 - Asian - South Asian origin, Beach, Bottle, Drinking, East Sussex, East Sussex, Exterior, Family, Girl - 3 to 13 years, Plait/pigtail/braid, Seated, Soft drink, Summer, Tourist, Woman - 25 to 45 years
G.B. ENGLAND. Eastbourne. 1995-1999

GB. Think of England. - GB. England. Weymouth. 2000. - Beach, Deckchair, Depth of field, Dorset, Headscarf, Out of focus, Summer, Sunglasses, Tourist, White people, Woman - 45 to 60 years, Woman - 60 years and older
GB. England. Weymouth. 2000


"Like the best humorists, Martin Parr flirts - sometimes dangerously - with cliché and stereotype to make his point. And his point is usually deadly serious. . . 
Ideas about England emanate from society, are filtered back into society and play their part in shaping society. Ideas, conceptions and misconceptions - are acted upon. Cliché becomes part of the wider truth, part of the contemporary scene and not just nostalgic irrelevance  Gerry Badger, Think of England|Martin Parr



GB. Think of England. - GB. England. Weymouth. On the beach. 1995-1999. - Bald (hairless), Bare chest, Beach, Depth of field, Dorset, Earring, Exterior, Father, Girl - 3 to 13 years, Latin script, Man - 25 to 45 years, Necklace, Summer, Sunburn, Swimsuit (all), Tattooing, View from rear, White people    GB. Think of England. - GB. England. Blackburn. 1995-1999. - Blackburn, Exterior, Group of people, Pakistani (nationality), Physical movement, Veil (religious), View from rear, Woman - 45 to 60 years

GB. England. Weymouth. On the beach. 1995-1999.    Martin Parr GB. England. Blackburn. 1995-1999

GB. Think of England. - G.B. ENGLAND. Burniston. 2000. - Equestrianism, Exterior, Helmet, Horserider, Jacket (formal), Jewellery, Low angle shot, Middle class, Necktie, Portrait, Teenage girl - 13 to 18 years old, Wealth, White people

G.B. ENGLAND. Burniston. 2000


 BILL BRANDT | THE ENGLISH AT HOME

Brandt's ambition was to become an independent professional photographer. His first book, The English at Home, appeared in 1936. Based on the portrayal of types and stereotypes, this was a kind of manifesto of British society, through which Brandt undertook to show the British their real faces. The complete opposite of the ideal motherland of his dreams, he discovered a divided people, a stratified society with a well-defined caste system, in the grip of economic crisis. Two years later he published A Night in London; in the same way as his friend Brassaï, Brandt enjoyed the uncertain, magical lighting effects of the night. Prowling around almost invisibly, he recorded London, revealing social inequality. He did not hesitate to ask his close friends to pose for him for certain situations.
In 1937 Bill Brandt travelled north, where he undertook at his own expense a photoreportage on the economic and social situation in the great cities of the Midlands and Tyneside. There he took his most memorable instantaneous photographs, such as the one of the emblematic figure of a scavenger for coal returning home, a modern myth of Sisyphus.
During the war Brandt was employed by the Home Office to show how well Londoners taking refuge in air-raid shelters were coping with air raids. He was also commissioned to produce a major photographic inventory of the capital's important buildings. The work was carried out during the black-out, without flash, rather in the style of Atget. This reportage, notable for its use of light and shade, was published in Picture Post and emphasized Brandt's interest in social documentation.

In the context of the art of his time, whose aesthetic experiments are reflected in his work, Bill Brandt was one of the first photographers to have created an individual style. While allowing the vocabulary of his art to evolve, he consciously worked at creating a personal photographic language. Based on the alliance between form and content, the fruit of experiment, exploration of the imaginary and an ever deeper investigation of the same themes, his work is notable for its splendid use of strong contrasts and densely printed images.

Street Scene
Parlourmaid at a window in Kensington
Parlourmaid at a window in Kensington
c. 1936

Coal Searcher Going Home    Window in Osborn Street
1937 Coal Searcher Going Home to Jarrow                           Window in Osborn Street 1931-35

East End girl, doing the Lambeth Walk
Bill Brandt
East End girl, doing the Lambeth Walk
c. 1936



As well as education being a major factor within one's childhood another important aspect of being a child is the essence they possess for imagination and play. During the school holidays it is customary for parents to take their children out for fun filled days of enjoyment and one of my most memorable places to be taken locally was the North West of England's most famous coastal resort in Lancashire, Blackpool.




Blackpool as a holiday get away peaked within the 1960's as Alfred Gregory writes; "After the repressive war years, and the 1950's when people were just finding their feet again, the 1960's introduced the beginning of a new era when everyone had just a little more money to spend . . . throughout this period Blackpool was the favourite destination of the working classes of Lancashire, Yorkshire, the Midlands and Scotland who saved up all year in order to spend one week by the sea."

alfred gregory






Alfred Gregory (1913-2010) was born in Blackburn and was a professional mountaineer, explorer and photographer. He was part of the British team that made the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953.

Mount Everest 1953 : the first ascent

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AT THE SEASIDE




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HOLIDAY MAKERS


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END OF THE SUMMER SEASON ON CENTRAL BEACH


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SUNBATHING AT THE BACK OF THE BEACH


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THE PROMENADE AT NIGHT

Seaside resorts play an historic role within British culture - 100 YEARS OF THE SEASIDE presents a visual record of the nation's love affair with its coastline and the unique phenomenon that is the British seaside. The story is told through 300 photographs from the Press Association's vast archives, spanning the whole of the 20th Century.


"The seaside holds a special place in the hearts of the British - which is both convenient and unsurprising for an island people that cannot, without leaving the country, be further than 70 miles from the coast. . . . . The birth of the seaside was also the birth of the holiday for many: to be away from home and work, released from daily responsibilities, was a new experience for both the industrial working class and the new Victorian middle class. Thus the seaside was associated with pleasure, coming to represent a delicious, slightly naughty, fringe of British life. . . The history of the seaside during the 20th Century is a history of the most light-hearted and least pompous aspects of the British psyche, a story of kiss-me-quick hats and saucy postcards, donkey rides and sandcastles, bathing beauties and romance, children in rock pools and parents in deck chairs. And though its popularity waned as foreign travel came within the reach of ordinary people, the seaside's appeal remained and now grows stronger once more."

Edwardian Folkestone
Edwardian holidaymakers enjoy the sun on the cliffs near Folkestone, 1909

The Edwardians on Holiday - The Seaside
The Edwardians on Holiday - The Seaside at Margate, 1910

British Holidays - The Seaside - Blackpool Illuminations - 1950

Blackpool Illuminations, 1950


British Holidays - The Seaside - Blackpool - 1995
Blackpool Seaside, 1995

British politics - The Conservative Party - Annual Conference - Blackpool - 1995
Blackpool, 1995

British Amusement Parks - Blackpool Pleasure Beach - 1995
Blackpool Pleasure Beach, 1995

British Holidays - The Seaside - Blackpool - 2003
Blackpool, 2003


Blackpool Bank Holiday Monday Photo shoot

We took a day trip out to Blackpool in the Easter Holiday's and due to the weather cooling from previously very warm weathered weeks before my daughter was quite content with staying in doors within the sea fronts famous amusements gambling away her 2p's.  This gave me the opportunity to leave her to have some father and daughter time whilst I ventured out with an eventful eye to capturing the heart of the north west sea front.
To my dismay it wasn't as busy as I had intended and due to the area being renovated I felt that my photographic opportunity had been limited in a sense, however I took out a fixed 200mm lens and took some  random candid shots of the many different cultured people enjoying some family time beside the seaside . . . beside the sea.

Below are my contact sheets from the afternoon. I changed my lenses to suit the situation I was photographing, for example in doors I used a standard Canon 50mm F1.4 lens and outdoors switched between my Variable Canon 28mm-135mm F3.5 and Canon 200mm Prime Lens.

















Below are my edited images . . . edited to a similar style to that of my Red, White and Blue shoot at St.John's School (previously advised above)
The only difference being that on some of the images I decided to take a further creative decision in changing the visual aspect of colour into a Grey scale / monotone or contrasty Black and White image to give a greater feeling of a typical documentary look and over all feel to the audience.

Antique Greyscale
DSLR settings - ISO 100, 50mm, F9.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

Antique Greyscale
DSLR settings - ISO 100, 60mm, F9.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

Black and White
DSLR settings - ISO 100, 65mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

Colour
DSLR settings - ISO 500, 50mm, F2.8 @ 1/45 - White balance (AWB)

Colour
DSLR settings - ISO 500, 50mm, F2.8 @ 1/45 - White balance (AWB)

Black and White
DSLR settings - ISO 500, 50mm, F2.8 @ 1/45 - White balance (AWB)

Black and White
DSLR settings - ISO 100, 200mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)


Black and White
DSLR settings - ISO 100, 200mm, F9.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

Colour


Colour
DSLR settings - ISO 100, 200mm, F5.6 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

Black and White with different crop
DSLR settings - ISO 100, 200mm, F5.6 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

Antique Greyscale
DSLR settings - ISO 100, 200mm, F5.6 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)



Further inspiration via Contemporary Lifestyle Photography
  • Lifestyle photography is photography re-creating "real" life situations in a controlled or natural setting. Lifestyle photography is one of the most popular and consistent types of photography in the market today. Lighting is generally bright, airy and quite natural looking. ...



A lifestyle is a characteristic bundle of behaviours that makes sense to both others and oneself in a given time and place, including social relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. The photography which takes these factors in account is lifestyle photography.




Below are some images selected from the internet employing the aspect and representational values of lifestyle photography, also accompanied with text from the various photographic artist websites explaining what their intentions are in collating exceptional lifestyle images for their potential clients . . . 





"A Lifestyle Shoot is about photography that reflects your personalities and lives. Remember the fun you had as a child, just playing with your friends, not a care in the world and wide eyed at every new discovery? Well, it’s time to do it again… though hopefully without grazing your knee or ruining your favourite shirt!
A lifestyle shoot with Robert Dann takes you out into the great outdoors for an energising open-air photo session in flattering natural light.
No rigid set ups, not that much structure to be aware of, and no timetables please. Just you, your family and friends, and Robert capturing it all as it unfolds. You’ll see a subtle, infectious magic in every picture."
“When you’re having fun, your true character shows through, and I’ll be there to keep it alive forever in photographs you’ll admire. Being made to do wooden poses and cheesy grins for the camera is rubbish – get out there and have fun instead!”
Robert Dann's Signature
Other images I found inspiring from this contemporary photographer's website







Lifestyle photography




Production Paradise is an essential tool for art buyers, producers, photographers, photographer’s agents and other decision makers worldwide, providing maximum exposure for photography professionals working throughout the industry.






Represented by on the ground Agents working in film and photography in our markets, their expertise and in-depth local knowledge ensures that only the best Photography talent make it onto our website.

Offering a one-stop-shop online service, there is no easier or more effective way to reach leading international photography, photo production, and photo post production service professionals.

Be it a specialist fashion photographer, beauty photographer, food and drink photographer, photographer’s agent, photo post production services, photographic equipment or studio rental; with Production Paradise you can find the best-in-class providers.

Alternatively, if you offer a photography service Production Paradise can showcase your work to high profile art buyers, producers and decision makers.

Get listed now, or for more information get in touch with one of our agents .  



SAM ROBINSON





The Shop. 64 Halliford Street 

London N1 3HF 

Tel.: +44 (0)20 7704 8887 

Mobile: +44 (0) 7976 287848 

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It’s about life . . . . . . . I love to see it happen . . .



My photography is about honesty. It’s about seeing: colours, characters, moments, people, personalities and stories. It’s about fun, friendship and feelings.

I work in stills and motion. I am commissioned globally to make imagery of life all over the world."


Sam Robinson

Sam Robinson

Sam Robinson

Sam Robinson

Sam Robinson



LONDON: PETER BEAVIS PHOTOGRAPHY  

Peter Beavis' recent personal project 'Wild' explores the human body and nature in unity. Using only natural light, he captures beautiful, memorable moments of youth, nature and fun. 'Wild' can be seen on his website under 'New Work'.
Peter continues to develop his unique approach to photographing people through editorial and commercial commissions for a global client list. Still maintaining his knack to bring out the most in his subjects, his spontaneous and enthusiastic approach creates a natural glimpse of life through his images.
Recent work includes campaigns for Palm Phones, Sony, Alpro Soya andFinnair that won Gold and Silver at the recent Effies Awards. Another of Peter's recent personal projects featuring a series of strong portraits of Cornish surfers has been selected for the 2010 Association of Photographers Awards Annual.

London: Peter Beavis Photography
London: Peter Beavis Photography
Peter Beavis is renowned for his exuberance and energy, as well as his knack for effortlessly relaxing and getting the most out of his subjects. His spontaneous and enthusiastic approach creates a natural glimpse of life through his images. His well-observed and natural looking photographs form the perfect composition of people in their own environment.


London: Peter Beavis Photography

London: Peter Beavis Photography

London: Peter Beavis Photography

Peter Beavis Photography

London: Peter Beavis Photography

I came across this showcase magazine within the Production Paradise Website dedicated to the photography happening in and around Cape Town. I thought it interesting to show the style of lifestyle and advertisement photography happening at the host we are to visit in October

cape town issue 273


Infidels
Photographer:  Leonardo Bigagli



FIRST PRODUCTIONS   CAPE TOWN PHOTO PRODUCTION

First Productions has completed yet another busy, energy filled season.
Since being established in 1987, the company has found the most valuable form of advertising to be word-of-mouth, offering the highest degree of personal service alongside guaranteed professionalism, integrity and a "no problem" attitude.
For the off-season, First Productions will be hard at work sourcing new locations for Cape Town, and also proposes Croatia as a perfect destination for the European summer months. A taste of some of the fantastic locations on offer is available on the company's website.
First Productions would like to thank its valued clients for their continued loyalty and support, and hopes to see them - along with the new ones gained this season - back in Cape Town for 2011/12


First Productions

Client:  Thomas Cook
Photographer:  Alexa Singer
Agency:  Birgit Stoever

First Productions
Client:  Thomas Cook
Photographer:  Alexa Singer

First Productions
Photographer:  Johannes Caspersen
Styling:  Sybille Wehner






BIG SKY PRODUCTIONS   CAPE TOWN PHOTO PRODUCTION

Big Sky Productions recently shot the Carl’s Jr Turkey Burger photo shoot for American agency David and Goliath. The best local crew assured an excellent result and happy clients.
Marks and Spencer sponsored a kid’s editorial shoot in Cape Town this season. The city is famous for the calibre of its child models, and Big Sky Productions is one of the leading production companies for kids shoots.
The company's ability to find diverse locations is clearly shown by the Daily Mirror desert shoot featured in this Showcase, while Big Sky recently went to Senegal to shoot for Puma. The successful campaign in and around Dakar once again shows Big Sky's ability to conduct exciting shoots anywhere in Africa.


Big Sky Productions

Client:  Marks & Spencer
Photographer:  Andrew Verster Cohen


Big Sky Productions

Client:  Marks & Spencer
Photographer:  Andrew Verster Cohen



Big Sky Productions

Client:  Puma
Photographer:  Ernst Heusser



Sourcing out other British Attractions and Community events in the North West of England

As well as looking through local newspapers, keeping my eyes on the look out for signs advertising family orientated events and searching drastically over the internet my first inspirational place to photograph my daughter was to take her to the Alice in Wonderland Easter Festival at Tatton ParkAlice in Wonderland

"Join favourite Lewis Carroll characters including Alice, the White Rabbit and Mad Hatter and take part in lots of activities across the Park. Step through the looking glass in the Mansion and follow the trail through the beautiful State Rooms. Admire the Spring floral arrangements.  Follow the White Rabbit to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party in the Gardens.  The clock's stopped at 6pm and a cast of curious characters riddle and rhyme their way through tea. 




A very warm welcome can be expected at the Farm where the Queen of Hearts will be weaving some magical stories.  Meet the lovely spring lambs and follow the Cheshire Cat trail and there's even more magic dust in the Stableyard where the White Rabbit will appear for Poz the Magician and Mr. Bimbamboozle will dazzle with his Alice themed Punch & Judy show!.



Come step into our World!" 


Tatton Park logo - click for vision statement
Tatton Park, Cheshire’s Large Visitor Attraction of the Year in 2004, 2005, 2009 and 2010, is one of the North West’s most popular heritage attractions. Over 750,000 visits are made each year to the 1,000 acres of deer park, Mansion, Gardens, Old Hall, rare breeds Farm and events. It has a history dating back to Bronze Age farming and has been home to herds of deer since the 13th century. In the late Tudor period Tatton was acquired by the Egerton family who owned the estate until the last Lord Egerton died without heirs in 1958. Maurice Egerton bequeathed the estate to the National Trust and in 1960 a lease was drawn up with Cheshire County Council who managed and financed the property on behalf of the National Trust until April 2009 when responsibility transferred to Cheshire East Council.

Cheshire East Council logoCheshire East Council came into being on April 1st 2009. The third largest unitary Council in the North West it delivers high quality services to over 360,000 residents. The management and financing of Tatton Park sits within the Council’s Visitor Economy Department, within the Regeneration Service, part of the Council’s Places Directorate.

National Trust logoThe National Trust is a charity which is completely independent of Government. The charity works to preserve and protect the coastline, countryside and buildings of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Tatton Park is owned by the National Trust. 

Tatton Trust logoThe Tatton Park Trust is a registered charity (1111357) that supports the conservation of Tatton Park for current and future generations. The Trust raises funds to meet its charitable objectives. The sale in 2006 of the right to use the M1 registration on the highway provided the initial funds for the Trust’s work. The Trust will continue to seek further funds from donations, bequests and fundraising activities.


The Alice in Wonderland Festival at Tatton Park Photo shoot

Below are my contact sheets from the day. I photographed in a documentary style hoping to create a photo essay of what people can expect if they are to visit Tatton Park with it's very traditional English cultured attire and landscapes. Also the theme of the festival being of a very British nature as the world widely known story of Alice in Wonderland was wrote by Louis Carroll who was born in Cheshire, North West England. 

Charles Dodgson    


I ensured that I always had the Cape town brief in mind and via the influence of Martin Parr composed my photographs in the hindsight that I was a foreigner on English soil, hoping to accomplish cliché , that is to us English, photographs which best depict true cultural and English values.
   































Below are my edited images, again all being edited with the same techniques and variables previously advised after the display of my contact sheets from my The Red, White and Blue School Celebration Photo shoot .

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 50mm, F8 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 70mm, F4.5 @ 1/250 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F3.5 @ 1/90 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 50mm, F8 @ 1/250 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 60mm, F8 @ 1/250 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 100mm, F6.7 @ 1/250 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 47mm, F4.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 38mm, F4 @ 1/60 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F8 @ 1/60 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 30mm, F8 @ 1/60 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 30mm, F6.7 @ 1/60 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 30mm, F4 @ 1/60 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 109mm, F5.6 @ 1/60 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 75mm, F4.5 @ 1/60 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 90mm, F5.6 @ 1/60 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 35mm, F9.5 @ 1/60 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 60mm, F11 @ 1/60 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 65mm, F11 @ 1/60 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 70mm, F11 @ 1/60 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 105mm, F6.7 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 56mm, F6.7 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

The main attraction of the day at Tatton Park was to explore the grounds and of an educational factor by taking part in the metal and physical quizzes associated with a 'Alice in Wonderland' theme throughout the grounds. I dedicated a large majority of the shoot showing my daughter being involved with the activities.

Text example from one of the leaflets detailing what the children had to do:

Follow the Pocket Watch Quiz . . . to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party in the Gardens!

Welcome . . .


  • In the gardens today you will find six golden pocket-watches. These belonging to the White Rabbit, who is trying to get to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party on time
  • Next to the pocket-watches you will find a noticeboard. Each board has a timely rhyme for you to read out in a nice, loud voice and a fun activity which you might like to try!
  • The watches can be found in the following areas: Kitchen Gardens, Tower Garden, Maze, Japanese Garden, near the Conservatory and near the Italian Garden.
  • Visit the watches in this order as the last one will bring you to the Italian Garden, where you can watch the Mad Hatter's Tea Party take place! 


Thank you for playing!

I was recommended a website to use to source out other local community events and family attractions taking place in and around Lancashire, this is http://www.visitlancashire.com/ . visitLancashire.com - The Official Website of Lancashire and Blackpool Tourist Board

It is a fantastic website dedicated into providing information in regards to everything that the North West Lancashire county has to offer and it was from this site that I came across http://www.visitlancashire.com/site/things-to-do/search/wellybobs-farm-park-p613020#ProductList-/site/things-to-do/search/wellybobs-farm-park-p613020 
which is located in Lower Darwen and which until that day I had no idea of its existence! During the School holidays we decided to go on a day out with one of my daughter's friends Katie and her mum. 
Taking children to such places, especially with a fun yet still educational value, within the holiday's is very customary of English ways and below are my contact sheets from our visit to Welly Bob's Farm. 

Welly Bobs Adventure Photo shoot










Editing style similar to both previous shoots however concentrating more on displaying a light-hearted, care free emotion  throughout especially within the first photographs of the children feeding the animals.
In these pictures I decided to use the Antique Grey scale to portray this desired effect within my photo journalistic lifestyle photographic approach.

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 50mm, F2 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 50mm, F6.7 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 50mm, F4.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 50mm, F2.8 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 50mm, F2.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 50mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 90mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 33mm, F9.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 85mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 35mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 70mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 85mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 95mm, F11 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

Advertised on lamp posts situated around the local area of Hyndburn were leaflets to advise the local community of a May Day Fair being held for the May Day Bank Holiday Weekend in the centre of Accrington.
Below are my contact sheets from the afternoon we spent at the fair. I wanted to capture the element of fun and enjoyment throughout my photographs, paying particular attention to ensuring that it was my daughter I was capturing within my images due to being weary of others' possibility of objecting to me photographing their children.


Accrington May Day Fair Photo shoot



















My edited images have been accomplished by using my style of editing format via the use of Lightroom 2.0 


DSLR settings - ISO 800, 28mm, F13 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 200, 30mm, F6.7 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)


DSLR settings - ISO 200, 30mm, F5.6 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 75mm, F4.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 65mm, F6.7 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 44mm, F4 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F4.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 28mm, F4 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 100, 33mm, F3.5 @ 1/125 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 400, 28mm, F3.5 @ 1/250 - White balance (AWB)

DSLR settings - ISO 400, 30mm, F4.5 @ 1/250 - White balance (AWB)


The high majority of attractions, events and festivals throughout England and the North West of England are customary to begin during and beyond the May's Bank Holiday's . Due to the brief constraints I am unable to document all my required events, therefore I have decided that I will continue to photograph these beyond the brief deadline due to the Exhibition in Cape Town.
 I feel that capturing one major photograph from each North Western event that fully represents that day in a nut shell ,will add extra depth, meaning and understanding into our social British culture.


Further visual inspiration associated with British Culture 

image: Title

British Life, Culture and Customs



Patriotism

Excluding differences caused by the dependencies of the term's meaning upon context, geography and philosophy, Patriotism is a devotion to one's country. In a generalized sense applicable to all countries and peoples, patriotism is a devotion to one's country for no other reason than being a citizen of that country


St George's Day parade in Morley. Picture courtesy of the Morley Observer




St George led the annual parade.  Picture courtesy of Morley Observer
The banners, flags and bunting went up in 2008, across the market town of Morley in West Yorkshire. The local residents held their biggest St George's celebrations to date.



Tribalism: A young fan supports England during an international friendly with Slovenia Photo: GETTY IMAGES




England



Identification. The name of the country and the term "English" derive from the Old English word for one of the three Germanic peoples that invaded the British Isles in the fifth century C . E ., the Angles. "Britain" and "British" derive from a Roman term for the inhabitants' language of the British Isles, called "Brythonic" or p-Celtic.
Englishness is highly regionalized. The most important regional divide is between the south and the north. The south, chiefly represented by the regions of the southeast, southwest, East Anglia, and the Midlands, now contains the economically most dynamic sectors of the country, including the City (the chief financial center of the United Kingdom) and the seat of the national government, both in London. The north, the cradle of industrialization and the site of traditional smokestack industries, includes Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northumberland, Cumbria, Durham, Merseyside, and Cheshire. Especially in the last decades of the twentieth century, the north has experienced deindustrialization, severe economic hardship, and cultural balkanization. England is also a culture of many smaller regionalisms, still centered on the old governmental unit of the county and the local villages and towns. Local products, such as ale, and regional rituals and art forms, such as Morris dancing and folk music, many of which date back to the preindustrial era, allow people to shape their attachments to their communities and the nation. Merged with the north–south divide and regionalism are notions of working class, middle class, and upper class as well as rich versus poor.

Read more: Culture of England - traditional, history, people, clothing, traditions, women, beliefs, food, customs http://www.everyculture.com/Cr-Ga/England.html#ixzz1N18l5h5M







Below is information in regards to the other events I will be attending and documenting in the very near future, in the hope of capturing that 1 suitable image from each that depicts and shows values associated with the whole attraction. 


http://www.visitenglandsnorthwest.com/
http://www.places-to-visit.co.uk/RssNorthWest.php


One of the North West's Premier attractions . . .
Chipping Steam Fair
This year's show is on
Spring Bank Holiday Weekend
28th, 29th & 30th May



Slaidburn Steam & Vintage Vehicle Display
Last updated 8th January 2011
The 2011 Event will be held on 11th and 12th June.
Admission FREE
2107 visitors to this site since 22nd February 2010

The Slaidburn Steam and Vintage Vehicle Display first started in 1980 when David McNamee parked his steam roller outside the Hark to Bounty Inn, Slaidburn, Nr Clitheroe, Lancashire BB7 3EP. 
The following year, a fellow steam enthusiast brought his traction engine to Slaidburn. 
The event is firmly established on the 'Steam Rally Calendar' and takes place most years at the Hark to Bounty Inn.


Cheshire County Show



If you want to experience and celebrate all that is great and good about the countryside then the Cheshire County Show is the only place to be as it brings together the many interesting and fascinating aspects of farming and rural life in Cheshire. Visitors and members of the agricultural community come together in the ever popular Agricultural Centre marquee, as it explains the journey of food within its theme of ‘Plough to Plate’. From live demonstrations of milking cows and feeding calves to butchery demonstrations and ice-cream making, right through to the environmental matters that are considered in food production, the Agricultural Centre is a must see.





Clay House Farm,

Flittogate Lane,
Tabley,
Knutsford,
Cheshire.
WA16 0HJ

Sainsbury's Agri-centre

W.I. Section
Cheese StallCarousel
Bolddog Lings
   






Horse Show
Horse Show









Dog Show
Dog Show




Blackburn Rovers Community Trust 
ORANGELAB
Blackburn Rovers Community Trust (Registered Charity No. 1117122) is fully committed to offering all members of the local community access to the highest quality programme of grassroots football, education, inclusion initiatives and awareness projects to encourage off-field participation, success and enjoyment using the crest and brand name of Blackburn Rovers Football Club.
The power of football to engage, enthuse and motivate people irrespective of age, gender and ethnicity is not recognised on many stages. As a vehicle through which community cohesion in its broadest terms of 'narrowing the gap' in health, education, aspirations and opportunity can be addressed, the local draw of Blackburn Rovers and the unrivalled power of the brand to bring additional credibility cannot be underestimated.


On Wednesday 11th May 2011 myself and two lecturers, Katherine Suggitt and Andy Farrington met up with Duncan Kinloch, Head of Planning and Strategy at Blackburn Rovers Community Trust. Whilst discussing photographic opportunities for future projects linking contacts between Blackburn college and to the Community Trust he took us on a educational tour of Blackburn Rovers Football ground.

I had hoped after this meeting that there may have been activities or events happening at the present time for me to document capturing the heart of Blackburn's community run projects and to use as part of my Cape Town Brief,however due to the end of the football season approaching Duncan advised that many organised community projects usually begin again when the new football season starts in August.

A little disappointed however I will be keeping in contact with Duncan and hopefully over the Summer holidays I will be able to embark on  projects with BR Community Trust and create a series of photo essay's relevant to showing the great work undertaken by the establishment and what effect their work has on the younger generation of the community.

Below are contact sheets of the images I took whilst on the tour of Blackburn Rovers Ground








Please refer to my post http://joannestudholme.blogspot.com/2011/05/fmp-brief-evaluation.html for the end of the brief assignment and evaluation . . . and watch out for new posts in the future to see the conclusion of the photographs chosen for exhibiting in Cape Town, South Africa. 
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