Photographers - Steve Mccurry

Steve McCurry (born April 23, 1950) is an American photographer who has worked in photojournalism and editorial. He is best known for his 1984 photograph "Afghan Girl", which originally appeared in National Geographic magazine. 

He uses a range of bright colours which has a relation to my final project, yet he uses it in a realistic style compared
to my concept where I look at unnatural colour and changing perspective. 

McCurry took his most recognised portrait, "Afghan Girl", in December 1984 of an approximately 12-year-old Pashtun orphan in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan.The image itself was named as "the most recognised photograph" in the history of the National Geographic magazine, and her face became famous as the cover photograph on the June 1985 issue.

Photographers - Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and conceived of photography as capturing a decisive moment. 

In 1952, Cartier-Bresson published his book Images à la sauvette, whose English-language edition was titled The Decisive Moment. It included a portfolio of 126 of his photos from the East and the West. 

He said "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organisation of forms which give that event its proper expression'. 

Photographers - Anders Peterson

Petersen is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. He studied photography under Christer Strömholm in Sweden, 1966-1967. For three years beginning in 1967 he photographed the late-night regulars (prostitutes, transvestites, drunks, lovers and drug addicts) in Café Lehmitz, a bar in Hamburg, Germany.

Some quotes by him; 

• "To me, it's encounters that matter, pictures are much less important."
• "I can't describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them."

Peterson has a very similar style as Diana Arbus due to the colour scheme and visuals. 

Photographers - Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for photographs of marginalised people like dwarfs, giants, 
transgender people, nudists, circus performer and others whose normality was perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal.

Arbus experienced "depressive episodes" during her life, and committed suicide in 1972 at age 48. Arthur Lubow said, "If she was doing the kind of work she was doing and photography wasn’t enough to keep her alive, what hope did we have?”. 

Wedding style photos

Fair photos

Idea number 2 (fail)

Once I began to see that it was too suggestive and would not create an amazing narrative. Thus I adventured into my imagination again and thought of what I could achieve. 

I thought how I had a connection to an antiques fair ground that I would be allowed to take photos at, therefore in the easter holidays I visited the fair and took many photos yet without human model no real idea came from the shoot yet maybe through editing I would be able to create something. 

Secondly, I went with myself and three friends to a beautiful park and animal reserve and just started taking photos of their mannerisms and what they would react to the plant's, river etc. Due to two of my friends being a couple I was able to get some really great romantic shots, that would be great for a wedding situation (this even heightened my dreams of perhaps being involved in wedding photography in the future). Yet these photos had no real narrative in them and did not have many connections to the tasks.