Yener Torun

Yener Torun was born in Turhal, Turkey, in 1982. At Istanbul Technical University he studied architecture then in 2014 he started a photography project on his Instagram account @cimkedi. On this account he focuses on building which are less know and side streets of his adopted hometown. his popularity has grown through the years to major media outlets such as The Guardian, The Washington Post, CBS News, and El Pais Semanal have covered his work. His work typically flatten space to focus on emphasizing lines and colours over depth.

In this photograph Yener Torun has the clear focus on the zigzag lines and how the two colours meet but don’t mix. The image is effective on how lined up the colours are and how vibrant both colours are but don’t drown out the other one. The texture of the image is very smooth and soft looking with very minimalistic patterns such as the pink with white lines and the orange and white checkers in the window.

Albert Smith

Albert Smith originally came from Liverpool but had worked at a studio in Waterloo. In 1892 he started a business in Jersey on New Street which he maintained until 1931. He captured many scenes of island life and events of historical importance which many of his views were sold as postcards. Nearly 2000 of his images can be seen on line in the photographic archive of la Société Jersiaise, out of a total of nearly 3,300 held in the archive. All his photographs were taken to sell and, in addition to those in negative format in the Société Jersiaise collection.

“A typically posed Smith photograph of a carriage outing” this photo shows a busy setting that wasn’t set up to look like this but asked them if he could take a photo. The old photo expresses the fashion of the time and what a typical day out would look like. With the positioning of the people shows how men were gentlemen and would get out their seats for the photo whereas the women were to stay where they were. As the photo is mostly people there is hardly any focus on the background such as the tree behind them.