The photo book called ‘The Middle Of Somewhere’ is a family journal that Sam Harris kept of his children, Yali and Uma growing up in their remote home in the South West corner of Western Australia. This photobook is a follow on from his previous work called ‘Postcards from Home’- this project was based on his family migrating from London to Australia in 2008.

“As I witness my daughter’s transformation in what feels like the briefest of moments, I’m compelled to preserve something of our time living together”

Sam Harris is a photographer and educator. As a teenager he taught himself photography, turning his London bedroom into a makeshift darkroom. Throughout the 90’s Sam photographed portraits and sleeve art for numerous recording artists. He also worked as an editorial photographer for publications such as The Sunday Times Magazine, Esquire, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and Dazed & Confused.

Sam’s photobook Postcards from Home (a self published limited edition) has received several awards including the Australian publishing industries Galley Club Award ‘Australian Book of the Year’ 2012.

I really like the style of photographs that Sam Harris takes, he try’s to capture the excitement of a moment, which in some of his photographs means; not all of the subject are in the photograph, it might be out of focus or there could be movement blurs. He pieces his photo books together by using other resources other than photographs. For example he has shopping lists and post-it notes also included.

This is an image that I have taken from Sam Harris’ photo journal. This photo tells a story of the mother telling the child off for something. The little girl is upset and is crying, there are motion blurs from the girl crying which I think are very effective as they emphasize that the girl is upset and make the photograph more relatable.

This is a very busy image; as well as the two subjects, which is the main focus of the image,  there is also a busy background of a family home. The overall coloring of the photo is fairly dull and contains neutral colors, this is so the main attraction to the image is the two girls.