Juan Orrantia seems to focus heavily on natural form and experimental shapes to represent expression, perhaps relating to cultural themes specific to him. This image has an underlying warm hue created by the clear manipulation of light and shadows to cast purples and pinks and yellows onto the walls; this makes the focus of the image less clear as the shadows almost disorientate the viewer. His work appears to be for the most part anthropological and focuses on human behaviour by capturing the way people move and the gestures they make. while this photo is clearly a constructed scene, it still feels spontaneous and I can see the way in which he captured the the persons essence by the way they hold themselves etc.
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"A seat at the table" by Aïcha Fall is a study on the body. Aïcha is a storyteller and she uses photography to write and tell her stories. using spontaneous movements and gestures as well as composed images, the images she captures are full of life. She uses the elements that surround her to transform them into works of art. Her works represent African culture and combines vision and culture |
I like this photo because the colours captured are so vibrant and contrast beautifully with each other to create an image that isn't just about the person but also about the blank space around them. the contrasting primary colours create a vibrant background which abstracts an otherwise fairly normal looking image. the use yellow, blue and red have connotations of African culture because they seem reminiscent of the clothes associated with that culture |
Colin Gray's "the parents" puts an interesting new spin on family photography. Most family photography is documentary style. we are taking photos of what is happening so that we can remember it. Colin Gray however, is not taking photos as they happen, he is taking a carefully constructed tableaux of images which mimic a family album in dark or fantastical ways. this creates a perceptive portrait of not only the people photographed but of the whole family. The images depict a certain public intimacy, as parts of family life which arent usually talked about are shown to us in their purest form to become not simply representations of specific people, but meditations on the complex nature of parenting and the domestic dynamic of the Gray family. |