family album

our first project was to produce some images for "family album", some images of my family in a personal environment ... a little difficult for me as my family are scattered geographically eg in North America or Ireland and elsewhere in the UK. Instead I look at my "surrogate" family - my fellows from this course .....

.... and my local photographic society

Incidently - dont think its me - I'm not exactly computer illiterate - but the editing software which I'm using now in the blog is crap, hence the positioning of the 2 images above. I'll look the html when I get time and see if I can do better.

reportage portraiture

1st day of Reportage portaiture course. It's a photography based course at the London College of Communication in the Elephant & Castle, London.

During the morning we (about 14 of us) were introduced to the concept of the Family Album, and in particular the work of Nan Goldin, Boris Mikalov, Paul Graham and Nicholas Nixon. What does reportage mean to each of us ? A little research in the college library in preparation for the afternoon session - each of us had to choose a photographer/ book and give a short presentation - proved useful. My choice was Robert Doisneau (book - Paris) and in particular the iconic photo - Le baiser de l'hotel de ville (1950).