PORTRAITURE -Introduction TASK

MODERN DAY HEROES

Behind Closed Doors: Photographs of Essential Keyworkers During COVID-19.

Over half term please can you start and attempt to start taking portraits.

The theme will be ‘Modern Day Heroes’.
If you have a family member or a family friend who is a carer, nurse, doctor or works for any of the emergency services or as a key worker then please take some portrait images of them ensuring their uniform and/or equipment is clearly part of the portrait.

Roles could include any essential or key workers in the following areas:

  • Doctor
  • Nurse
  • Carer
  • Bus Driver
  • Firefighter
  • Police
  • Delivery
  • Paramedics
  • Health worker
  • Cleaners
  • Shop assistants
  • Postal workers
  • Hairdressers/Barbers
Fay - trainee nursing associate
Milton photographer captures portraits of key workers to show appreciation  for their work | The News

If you don’t have a family member or family friend who works in these areas then you may have to be brave and try to photograph those you may come into contact with. eg: bus driver, delivery man, refuse collectors, cleaners, barber, hairdresser, postman etc.

The London bus drivers on the coronavirus front line | Financial Times
Photographer captures portraits of London's key workers on daily walks |  Metro News
When will hairdressers, barbers and beauty salons open in Scotland? - Daily  Record
Tom Nolan, one of Bury's hero bin men
The photograph doesn’t always have to include a person. It could be object based.
Can cleaners go back to work as government eases lockdown restrictions? |  Chichester Observer

THINK ABOUT

Where, What, How, When, Who.

Lighting / Day / Night / Indoor / Outdoors

Aperture settings / Focus / Depth of Field

PLEASE HAVE YOUR IMAGES READY TO VIEW WHEN WE RETURN
Monday 2nd November 2020

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