danny lyon.

I'd never heard of Danny Lyon before when someone gave me his name. I had a look at his photographs and found them really interesting because of how intimate and included the photographs felt with the subculture he photographed. I found out this is because he actually joined the motorcycle 'club' he photographed and traveled around with them. Here are a few of the photographs

JOEL MEYEROWITZ!

I don't think anybody could ever research street photography and not look at meyerowitz work. I find the way he uses shadows to cover certain peoples faces and other parts of the body interesting. It makes me think about how I can include other aspects of the surrounding environment into my photography to add meaning.

Looking at different subcultures via the amazing Vice Magazine!

I recently got the new addition off Vice magazine and luckily it's based around fashion. I found these 3 articles interesting but it gave me a little insight to some subcultures that i'm not very aware of or not aware of at all (ridiculous mexican boots)!


http://www.viceland.com/int/v18n3/htdocs/look-at-these-fucking-boots-721.php

http://www.viceland.com/int/v18n3/htdocs/british-leather-boys-748.php

http://www.viceland.com/int/v18n3/htdocs/boom-bye-bye-to-khaki-724.php

My First trip to London

I went down to london the other week to go to camden market and have a go at street fashion photography. I feel as it was my first time on my own taking photographs in an unusual place I was nervous and therefor did not get the photographs i wanted, although a few I like.

The test Avedon shoot!

Finally! I have done a test shoot in the studio using a Medium format camera, which did not go well. I didn't like the camera and found it hard to focus and get similar little without goin off the backdrop. I will b doing another shoot similar to this but hofully outside!

Testing Backgrounds

I took my friend out the other day to have a tester shoot experimenting with different backgrounds here are my favorite photos. I really like the brick and the plain white. I also the contrast in both of these images.

The Free Photographic Omnibus by Mr. Daniel Meadows

 The Photobus is a journey in photo documentary. It began in the 1970s with still photographs and continues into the present. Daniel Meadows is quite and inspiration to me as a portrait photographer.
http://www.photobus.co.uk/