#lockdowncity

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Sense of Place -

Something Told -

Something New - 

Stock Part 1 out of 2 - 

Stock Part 2 out of 2 -

Here all are my final canvas for all my Block 1 project.

I am extremely happy with all the work I have made over the last few months within Block 1 as Covid happened early 2020 and it made everything changed so I needed to do must of all of block 1 from home and getting feedback and class work over zoom calls with my lecturers and classmates.

[hayleynashhndphotography]

Lockdown City

Plan

I plan on shooting lockdown city in Glasgow as i liked the way my People Make Glasgow images turned out. I feel there is more going on in Glasgow than East Kilbride and more points of interest.

Contact Sheets

Worksheets

Final Images 

[jennifersibbaldhnd2photo]

Lockdown City - Images Selected + A3 Test Canvas

The top image is all the selected images I have picked from each round and put them into one folder to keep it tidy.

I did find it hard with selecting the right images to put together for this project.

Test Canvas 1 - With a key line only around the top middle image of the covid sign.

Test Canvas 2 - With a smaller key line around all the images.

I think having the key line around all the images work better as they are all the same and not as noticeable as the test canvas 1.

[jennifersibbaldhnd2photo]

Lockdown  City - Contact Sheets

I shot a few rounds of this brief, because after I looked at the first round I didn’t either have enough shots or they weren’t fully what I wanted them to look like. So after I shot a few more times and I am now happy with the images I have capture and now it’s time to selected and edit.

I also thought I had either images for the project but after reading the brief again and I forgot I needed a people element as well as the story of the streets, buildings, institutions, restaurants and shops, so I decided to photograph my cousin who is working from home at the moment, my mum who works for the NHS and what she needs to wear now for the safety factor and my next door neighbours who is shielding, but overall I think I can make a good project from these images above. 

[emilyclose-hnd2-photography]

Lockdown City 

[hnd1bphoto-geraldmcmillan]

Lockdown City - GMcM

See the graphic

Glasgow City Centre just after 10:00pm 9/10/20: Hospitality Sector workers making their feelings known outside City Chambers, George Square

[hayleynashhndphotography]

Photojournalism Task

Task 1

Identify where news comes from. List five sources where you would see good photojournalism?

News comes from Meany media sources such as news papers, T.v, Socail media. and news apps.

According too https://blog.feedspot.com/photojournalism_blogs/ these are the top 5 photojournalist blogs/media sources. 

1. New York Times Lens Blog

2. Big Picture | The Boston Globe

3. The Atlantic | Photo

4. Reading The Pictures

5. BBC News - In Pictures

Task 2

Choose two established photojournalists from Magnum or a large photo agency and look at four photographs for each photographer. Look at the photographers background and career. Talk about their approach and style of photography. Comment on the effectiveness of storytelling in their work. Take note of some of the issues they may encounter as a photojournalist. What has made them successful in their field of work?

Jérôme Sessini

Jérôme Sessini is a well known French photo journalist working in conflict zones in countries such as  Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Libya working for international publications  

He has also done a series on the drug related issues in Mexico and the anti-government protests in Ukraine and indigenous minorities in Cambodia facing forced eviction.

The Second Battle of Fallujah

The Second Battle of Fallujah started stared in novermer 2004 in Iraq. It lasted a mounth and a half. The US put in troups and gave it the code name  Phantom Fury. It was  the first instance of Coalition military action against a purely insurgent force, since the toppling of the Ba-athist government in 2003.

He documented the perspective of the us marines in the hostel environment. The closeness creates a strong and socking impact as if you where there yourself. the trend of seeing the backs of the mariens also makes you feel as if you are there with them. the mixture of portraits gives the series a human element as we can see there faces. This makes his images extremally effective in showing people the cruelty of Battle. This would have been a hugely dangerous job as he was frontlines with the marines posing difficulties and risks. 

Chris Steele-Perkins

Chris Steele-Perkins is from Myanmar. He has been in the photography carrier for 45 years now and has been well travelled. his main bodies of work are in Myanmar as well as Japan, Africa and Afghanistan, which he has received critical acclaim for.

He is known for his sympathetic yet sharp eye when it comes to his images.

In his image he capture the mania of Tokyo. This series was to capture all sides of tokyo and japans culture from funny, good and bed. this particular images gives the viewer a real sense of how busy Tokyo can be. The intimacy of the image also makes the viewer feel suffocated adding to the sense of busyness. 

This image shows homeless people in one of japan biggest train station in Shubuya. This image next to the salary men image shows the divide in Japan and Highlights some of its main issues. 

A big part of Tokyo culture is what is known as a salary man. I think this image shows the calm side to this job as we often picture these man rushing about and constantly working in the busy Tokyo environment. he has captured a man reading and one dozing off. this adds to the calming atmosphere of the image and he has done well to capture the peaceful side of Tokyo. 

Once of the aspects of tokyo he wanted to show was the comical/surreal. i think this images adds a light-heartedness to the series. this dog is receiving a mud bath from the red sea. one would expect to see this treatment in a spa rather than for a dog. The expression he has captured on the dog adds to the comic as it looks fed-up with its situation

I think some issues that he might have encountered is the shyness of the culture in japan. i think most of his shots would have to be candid as meany wouldn't agree to there picture getting taken.

[shannonhnd2photo]

lockdown city