Martin Parr Response

 This is my image in the style of Martin Parr from looking at his work his work it taken just as they are seen and not staged also they have quit a high vibrance.

Martin Parr

Martin Parr (born 24 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take a critical look at aspects of modern life, in particular provincial and suburban life in England. He is a member of Magnum Photos. 
Parr began work as a professional photographer and has subsequently taught photography intermittently from the mid-1970s. He was first recognised for his black-and-white photography in the north of England, Bad Weather(1982) and A Fair Day (1984), but switched to colour photography in 1984. The resulting work, Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton, was published in 1986. Since 1994, Parr has been a member of Magnum Photos. He has had almost 50 books published, and featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide - including an exhibition at the Barbican Arts Centre, London. In 2007, his retrospective exhibition was selected to be the main show of Month of Photography Asia in Singapore. In 2008, he was made an Honorary Doctor of Arts atManchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in recognition for his ongoing contribution to photography and to MMU's School of Art.

SNOWFLAKE

For this task we was asked to make a paper snow flake and take it out of college and take a picture of them in an odd place here is my image.

John Myers

Myers’ approach is documentary in style, reflecting the taste, self-perceptions and aspirations of the people he photographed. Thus we observe them in their sitting rooms and bedrooms, or in their leisure or work spaces, surrounded by the telling paraphernalia of their daily lives. They pose with deliberate stances and gestures, responding to the sense of occasion engendered by Myers’ use of a Gandolfi plate camera set on a tripod with a dark viewing cloth. As well as domestic interiors, occupied particularly by couples and women, we see the studio where a young girl attends ballet classes, the back yard where a boy plays football and a club where two men play snooker. Myers chose to photograph people who lived within walking distance of his own home, and so he recorded the world as he knew it. A kind of natural history unfolds through Middle England, with its depictions of human life and habitats, significantly as the portraits are shown alongside an exceptional image of a giraffe in a zoo enclosure. This juxtaposition reminds us of the fact that we are shaped by our built environments, as much as we shape them. Myers studied at newcastle university studying fine art and he never took a photo before he brought his 5x4 large format camera.  His influence for his portrait work: August Sander Diane Arbus Lewis Hine  E.J. bellocq His influence for his landscape work: T.H. O'sulliva C.E. Watkins

Erik Knudsen

Erik Knudsen is Professor of Film Practice at the University of Salford in Manchester, UK, where he is currently the Head of The School of Media Music and Performance. He regularly conducts guest workshops at international film schools, such as the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba, where he was Head of Editing between 2001 and 2009. He was born in Ghana to a Danish father and Ghanaian mother in 1956. He grew up, and was primarily educated, in Denmark, with a few years of schooling in Britain. After a stint of Law studies at Århus University in Denmark, he then went on to study film production at York University in Toronto, Canada, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Specialist Honours in Film Production in 1983. He returned to Britain in 1984, where he has lived and worked since. He gained his PhD from the University of Salford, 2002.

Amelia Beavis-harrison

Amelia Beavis-Harrison is a curator and artist currently based in Nottingham, UK. This website documents some of the art work and curatorial projects produced since 2007. Amelia initiated and runs Lincoln Art Programme, a live art commissioning body in Lincoln, alongside her freelance work.

Her curatorial practice looks to investigate curating in public environments predominantly with live art. She is interested in the relationships that art work can have within site contexts in a wider environment that may have a direct / organic / conflicting relationship. A strand of her practice looks to explore what curating can be and the function of the curator, investigating the potential of circumstances. Collaboration is a large part of Amelia's curatorial practice and is manifested in varying ways with artists and co-curators being partners in the realisation of projects.

Extreme Text.

For the first part of the text task we had to go out and take pictures of the letters that spelt the word extreme but we could take a picture of the actual letter it had to be of thing made by use or just in the general environment like the floor or poles.

Here is my response:

The first E i used a drain cover.

For the X i used a small drain cover.

For the T i used a sign post.

For the R i used a corner of a metal square.

For the E i used a bench.

For the M i used bricks on the floor.

For the E i used the roof of a church.

For the second part of the task we had to take images of 7 different colours and put them into the text like make one colour an "E" and the next colour an "X" and so on. Here is my response: