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This guy caught my eye a lot. I'm not sure if he was homeless or not, but he was a street performer who just attracted pigeons - I'm pretty sure they weren't his own as they were flying around. This image sums up this character for me, by using the flash during day light it gives the image a very surreal feeling, and by capturing him holding some pigeons exaggerates that. As it was busy, a hell of a lot of people were reacting in near enough the same way to this man whilst walking past, I captured the old lady in the mid ground with a shocked and confused expression on her face - my use of juxtaposition, framing and the decisive moment had to be spot on for this one. And again, the contrasting juxtaposition between the street performer and the architecture comments on and questions the relationship between him and Bath. I think this image is visually the strongest from Bath, and most striking; the use of flash gives a surreal feel, along with the dynamic framing, juxtaposition, and decisive moment which form together to give an eye catching and thought provoking image.

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Two homeless people are framed in this image, one working for the big issue and one not, both greeting each other/in conversation with each other. I juxtaposed them against the contrasting classic, clean cut architecture of the buildings and used the decisive moment to capture them in conversation, with the hand of one holding onto the arm of the other. I like the fact that this image pushes the audience to create their own narrative, as we don't actually know what they are speaking about; a sense of mystery is added as they have contrasting expressions on their faces, which emphasises the contrast between them and the architecture.

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A classic playful and humorous street photography shot here, where I juxtaposed the Burger King sign in front of the persons head. I also captured the image so that the manikin/women on the posters in the shop window were looking towards the person, and used the decisive moment to capture a woman walking by, in the direction of the arrow on the sign. This is a more humorous approach to photographing homeless people at work, inspired by the work of Martin Parr, who often uses funny juxtapositions in his work which can cause controversy.

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I saw this image line up and immediately snapped my shutter. This woman in a flowery coat, stood in front of a stall selling flowery bags, instantly reminded me of a photo taken by Martin Parr (which can be seen here), and also reminded me of the work of Lui Bolin which I looked at at the start of the project. The fact that she is blending in with her surroundings comments/raises questions on the relationship between her and the environment she is in.

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This is another image which I took to show some of the amazing architecture that Bath is full of, contrasted by the juxtaposition of this homeless man in the foreground staring right into the camera. I think this is quite a simplistically striking and almost surreal image (emphasised by using flash during day time, inspired by Martin Parr) which represents my personal point of view of Bath and its people.

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Another image documenting the appealing architecture of Bath. This time of a narrow street full of classic little gift shops and what not. 

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Another image documenting the aesthetically pleasing architecture of Bath, contrasting the people in which I photographed.

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Of course, Bath wouldn't be Bath without the beautiful, classic, clean cut, stone architecture. I snapped this image to show suggest a contrast between Bath and the people in which I photographed.