My chosen Genre is Documentary, I’ve made this decision due to having applied to media and cultural productions at UWE bristol. I feel it’s crucial to push myself socially with unknown strangers, more importantly, my creative reach could do with being extended further before starting at university.
My project entails taking pictures of locals after interacting with them in Plymouth and Tavistock like marking slightly non-identical chapters within this short period of life. I say slightly because it’s the same location (devon) but separate events, activities or just strangers being their natural selves.
I’m using Dmitry Markov as key inspiration, a Russian Instagram famous photographer who documents his affairs by photographing the persons involved also he captures strangers and animals on the streets. His images are unique yet so captivatingly marvellous but the reason behind why he is so recognisable I figure is because he only shoots on an iPhone camera, since his actual camera was stolen whilst he volunteered at an orphanage.
I am going to research many facts/techniques Markov uses, firstly acquire correct framing of his iPhone camera, so I can then crop to fit the same size. In photoshop desaturation will be used in all images as Dmitriy sets a grey mundane vibe throughout all of his work. Can ask one of the lecturers for advice on what lens would be best for this style because unlike Dmitry I won’t be shooting on an iPhone camera.
This will be a great learning experience as it’ll make me invest my time going outside searching for special random events and decisive moments to photograph that are within strangers of the day to day life. Like Dmitry has said in the past “they are not just social photographs” as people see them “they are personal encounters and scenes,”.
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