The work of Huang Qingjun’s “Family Stuff” photographed families and their possessions outside their homes in poor regions of china to give an insight into their lives, and tell a story about their lives from their belongings. Qingjun’s work explores families lives in detail by showing all they have, which can build a story in the viewers eye. Qingjun uses colour in his photos which helps to create an interesting image by giving colour to the subjects possessions, which helps to easily identify them. This projects fit into the theme of ‘Variance and Similarities’ because It looks at how each individual with the same level of poverty looks different, and has different belongs even though all the subjects are below the poverty line.

To respond to Huang Qingjun I visited Millbrook car boot and took images of the different stalls, people and the things they were selling. The intended effect was to tell a story about the people from their belongings which I believe I have achieved successfully in my images. The outcome of my images is visually similar to that of Qingjun’s as the images showed a subject and their belongings.

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Edits/Typologies

As these images are all similar, and yet different I feel it suits the photos to be displayed in a typologies grid. This allows the images to be compared to each other closely, whilst also seeing the differences that are clearly between them.