Paul Graham is an English born, self taught documentary photographer whose work has won various awards including the likes of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize as well as the Hasselblad Award. Graham is a very prolific artist with many published works and exhibitions. As stated before he is a documentary photographer and as such most of his work features small aperture to capture a lot of detail in the scene. I like the flat tones he uses juxtaposed with strong colors, often sticking to two or three main colors as to not over saturate the image.

The image appears to use a high F stop due to the wide range of detail captured. The photo’s look as though they were taken using a Digital SLR with a low ISO due to the abundant natural lighting in the scene (using a higher ISO would leave the image overexposed) as well as the lack of noise in the image despite the age of the camera considering this work was published back in 1983. There is some slight color noise in the darkest areas of the photograph however this is likely due to the age/ quality of the sensor. There is a strong tonal contrast image between the lights and darks however the highlights aren’t too overpowering. The vibrancy of the colors despite such a flat scene suggests the use of a slow shutter in conjunction with a tripod due to the lack of any motion blur.

The image features two strong key colors, that being the orange of the paint as well as the bright green on the grass/ trees in the area accompanied by some more subtle blue tones. There as some light purple tones visible in the darker areas of the image. The image uses the Fibonacci curve as to draw attention to the writing on the wall. The images composition features very strong lines separating layers of the foreground and the background. There is a strong sense of texture created in the image by the rough surface of the concrete as well as the detail in the grass/ trees. The roofs of the houses almost create the effect of a repeating pattern.