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Jennifer
Nicholls
I
worked with Debbie Rhodes and Kirsty Doran
As
a group we explored the people of Blackburn, how to represent the
style and culture of modern day life. Individually I wanted to learn
more about Blackburn it's self as I'm not from here and would like to
find out about the culture, so I chose to photograph the statues and
sculptures.
I
chose to stick to Blackburn town centre and to concentrate on the
statues in the town, of which I only got 3 of but there are so much
more.
I
captured The mother and child statue at Cardwell place, the Grandma
and child at the Boulevard and Queen Victoria.
- The twelve pictures I have selected to represent Blackburn are Grandmothers perspective as it is unique view point of what I feel the sculpture is about. The focal point is the child’s hair but you can still tell that they are holding hands and what the child is reaching for.
- Guy eating chips-2 is named so as I cropped the picture, the shot was taken candidly and Debbie had walked into the shot. The guy is sheltering from the rain under the arch of an old, shut down pub whilst on what, I assume, to be his dinner break. It seems like the guy has found a use for this abandoned, run down and forgotten about building in this overcast situation. It was suggested that the picture was over exposed so I auto corrected it on Lightroom.
- Lonely guys, as this photo should be called shows how de-socialised people are becoming, the man at the forefront looked as though he had given up, really depressed and alone but I wasn’t able to capture that. I took this candidly but he was aware of us before I took this picture so I wasn’t able to capture the full extent of the emotion in his face. One thing that I do notice is that it is the old people that are sat on their own, even in the back ground there are two young girls interacting with each other and Via Mobile and an old lady sat next to them alone, also a young family, a dad walking with his daughter. When I showed this picture to the class it was suggested that the picture would be better if I took this from a lower angle and I am inclined to agree.
- Mall was taken the day before this task was set, as I had to go to Blackpool and noticed this shot when getting off the train. I like the dramatic dark cloud reaching for the Mall and the light surrounding it highlighting the buildings and busy street below. A comment made was that it would be better it there were one or two people sat in the chairs on the platform, again it was over exposed and was changed by auto correct in Lightroom.
- DSC_0050.JPG was taken off the cuff whilst trying to capture the bi-folding doors on the bus as it seems like a nostalgic thing to have. I'm happy that I did as I caught this lady walking through and now looking at it as an independent image I like the colours that make the space.
- DSC_0057.JPG or Jubilee, I took as you see this scene all across the country, the reminisce of a great celebration. A lot happened this year, all eyes were on Britain and everyone wanted to celebrate, to show just how great we can be but when it comes to pulling down any decorations nobody whats to know. I don't feel that the point of the image gets across as the broken flag bunting is dwarfed by the old building but it is there to notice if you look hard enough.
- Family cropped I took as the statue represents family and just behind it a modern family sits. I learnt later that there had been a big uproar about the mother in the statue not having a wedding ring. Yet it is common place and widely accepted that most mother are not married or even have the father in the picture. I like the lighting in this picture, a break in the clouds aloud the sun to cast a minimal shadow and highlight the forms of the figures in the picture connecting them together.
- Pigeon cropped, for this I was looking at the composition through the square hole. It was shear chance that as I pressed the button a pigeon flew by and I was really impressed as that never happens to me and street photography can rely on that chance.
- I noticed the composition of Queen Vic when we stopped for a break at the benches and I looked up at her. The branches framed her well and I though that I would include them in the shot and I'm glad that I did.
- With Sky line I was going for the shape of the ramp to the square tower, the detail on the ramp and the sky. You could probably take this same photo in 20, 30, 50 years time and it would probably look exactly the same.
- Stick man, (as it should be called) I took as this elderly gentleman look quite discerning qualities. I don't know if it was the stick or the jacket and jeans but I liked the look of this man and the way he walked and carried himself. He looks quite calm, in the shadows heading for the hustle and bustle that lay before him in the bright light of day.
The
picture I have chosen as my final image is Burial ground, the reason
that I took this picture in the first place was that Wes and I were
walking through the grounds and Wes had noticed this, he hasn’t
been to Blackburn as much as I have and noticed this enough to call
it out. I hadn’t, or had seen it and just dismissed it but when you
read it, it shows how dramatically the culture has changed. You see
sighs everywhere now about how places are a smoke free or an
alcoholic drink free zone in public places.
Is
it a case of a nanny culture or common courtesy, is this needed for a
lack of common courtesy that everyone possesses, do we not have the
common courtesy as we are being nannied?
Back
in the day we probably didn't need to have all of these signs about
at as it wouldn't have even been thought about to drink and do drugs
on a burial ground. I also like the Bokeh effect that has happened in the trees due to the shallow depth of field.
Research on Ian Berry
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult_VPage&VBID=2K1HZO85GKJ5M&SMLS=1&RW=1073&RH=604
This web site has some quite interesting images on it that tell the story of Blackburn with it
Research on Ian Berry
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult_VPage&VBID=2K1HZO85GKJ5M&SMLS=1&RW=1073&RH=604
This web site has some quite interesting images on it that tell the story of Blackburn with it
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