Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s (1925 – 1972) photography spanned many genres, but mainly focused on abstract photography. He shot all his images in black and white, lots of his photography is focused on children and adults in worn down areas with face masks on. He used different exposures, apparatuses and motion blur to create an uneasy feeling and a sense of confusion as the viewer has no context of the image and its purpose. Many of the subjects of the images are moving and are not in focus, and sometimes over exposed.

My photoshoot

My Favorite Images

I chose these final images as my best finished photographs because of the similar style to Ralph Eugene Meatyard such as these images:

My final images resemble Meatyards work because of the strong black and white tonal contrasts with dark blacks and bright whites. In many of my images the subjects face is bury, much like Meatyards images.

The subjects face is also covered in the images, similar to some subjects of Meatyards images wearing masks.