Final Major Project

Visional and creative practitioners 



Here are some pictures I took whilst looking through the RPS Journal and also the British Journal of Photography. I have chosen to show pictures of photographers who shoot in the same area as I am focused on at the moment.

Ali Taptik is a Turkish photographer this is a selection of his pictures that show people in a nightclub,  you can clearly see expressions which are highlighted by the neon lights within the club.

Weegee (Arthur Fellig) 

Their First Murder, October 9, 1941.

Arthur Fellig was a photojournalist and he worked around Manhatten during the 1930s.

here is how he has described the way he works:  

"In my particular case I didn't wait 'til somebody gave me a job or something, I went and created a job for myself—freelance photographer. And what I did, anybody else can do. What I did simply was this: I went down to Manhattan Police Headquarters and for two years I worked without a police card or any kind of credentials. When a story came over a police teletype, I would go to it. The idea was I sold the pictures to the newspapers. And naturally, I picked a story that meant something"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weegee

Dario Mitideri 

Holi, The Festival of Colours

This is a great image and it shows all of the energy that Mitideri has captured in this picture during the festival of colours. This is the technique I really need to use in my own work, which is to almost get involved with what is going on.  

This image shows some neon lights which actually say, MAGIC PARTY PLACE, surrounded by total darkness.

The man expression on his face as he dances with the lady is brilliant, it can make you wonder if it's because he is aware of the shot being taken or because he doesn't really want to be dancing with the lady at all.

CJ Clarke is a photographer, director, and producer who actually has his own book called, The Magic Party Place, which documented contemporary England over the last ten years. 

I Think this is my favorite image out of all them, a double exposure shows the lady's movement as she is dancing. It is a great effect where she is looking directly at the camera but also to her right as she turns her head.

Malick Sidibé

Nuit de Noël ( Happy Club) 1963

These shots would have been taken using film and they are really nice images which could have been taken with Sidibé positioned quite close while they were dancing.