I have chosen to compare these two images as I believe that they both have similarities in the two. They both contain photos of a single person so they first have a similarity within the fact they’re both in the same situation . Both images show someone walking carrying something and are both based around a urban area, having other buildings in the background of them. They both display portions of the road and showing them looking down walking not paying attention to what’s happening around them definitely capturing them in true nature not realising they are being photographed. I feel that the background and situation makes it more dull and moody as it is representing the urbanised world.

one difference is that my image has a younger male looking at his phone while the older lady is just looking down representing how the youth are much more tech concentrated nowadays

Here is a full-scale presentation of the image I have chosen to compare with that of George Georgiou . I really like how this image turned out as I feel it is very similar to that of Georgiou’s work who I used as a real inspiration for my pieces. Georgiou’s work has been a huge inspiration for me as I feel he is able to present the essence of what the uk and people are really like through it’s capturing of people in everyday life.

for this experimentation i decided to put a few of my monochrome images over the top of each other

i started by cropping out my images so that i could start layering them

i started off by placing them over one of the other images but realised there wasn’t really enough space and the images seemed a bit to squeezed in so i tried placing them on a A3 blank sheet

after doing that i was much happier with how the edit turned out and i was able to fit all the images how i wanted to

finally i added my final image and cropped it down and was very happy with the outcome but after printing it i decided to keep the outline for a less basic and more interesting image

What you want to explore?

I am going to explore the simple aspects of portraiture in consideration to George Georgiou and Paul Fusco’s work. The majority of simple approaches in which appear initially simple at first are conceived from complex concepts that challenge the viewer and raise important issues. I will be acknowledging how this applies to my pictures. My project will be linked to that through images taken of people i see on the bus capturing them in there true nature, i want the subject to never know I’m there and just act as they normally do in everyday life.

Why it matters to you?

This project matters to me as i currently have crashed my car so am stuck getting busses around so it is like what i see through my eyes for this portion of my life and i try to capture that in how i edit and represent my final outcomes. It doesn’t only just matter to me as i can learn more about myself, but also because how i can learn more about individuals without them changing the way they are for the camera and are just in true nature, having a closer insight on their identities. I also feel that this links to todays society where everyone puts on a fake mask online, photoshop there photos, and pose but it never reflects who they truly are and i aim to capture that in this project.

How you wish to develop your project?

I wish to develop my project by going on multiple bus routes around different areas taking a range of different shoots experimenting with different angles, lighting, locations and to match the people i see and my own personality creating a better understanding with the meanings behind my final images.

When and where you intend to begin your study?

I intend to start my study in and around st helier at busy times of the day in order to see as many people as possible just going about there normal lives i feel this is a good starting point to find what places feel safe and have meaning to them so i can capture them as they normally are.

this is my first of 2 final outcomes over all i was very happy with this one i tried to lay out the images so that they flow into each other with all having similar colours i feel that this one turned out well

for my second final outcome i decided to edit the photos i was gonna use in a window mount and merged them together and am very happy with the outcome this is my favourite one and glad it turn’t out well

i put all of my final prints into a virtual gallery you can find below

https://www.artsteps.com/view/644ba228dfa9cef4a1b20fda

Evaluation

i was sceptical at first about this project but over all i feel that it turned out well i felt i stuck to my artist references very well and am glad i did i like how m final prints turned out with one monochrome and one colour project which i feel work very well against each other so over all i am very happy with this project but if i was to do it again i would try getting some shoots outside of St Helier and at different times of the day to have a larger range of images

for my third and final shoot i wanted to make sure i had more than enough images to finish my project with for this shoot i took around 200 images still around St Helier but again a different route with slightly brighter lighting

to pick out the ones i liked most i used the pick and reject tool again and came up with 80 images i liked the most

after further narrowing them down with the star rating tool i came up with 40 i wanted to use

for this project i experimented with a mix of colour editing and monochrome editing to add to my final projects after some experimenting i came up with 5 of the best ones

for the colour image i decided to all a bit of vibrancy and changing exposure to create a more catching image

i was happy with how this image turn’t out because first time i seen it i almost didn’t even flag it but after some editing i liked it much more

for the monochrome images i used similar edits to photoshoot 2 so that i could make a sequence using them all

i liked how they all turn’t out but my favourite out of the the monochrome edits from this shoot is this one as i like the strong contrast

overall i was very happy with this shoot as it gave me much more final images and allowed me to have to final projects one being black and white and the other in colour i was glad i got as many photos as i did for this shoot as was very useful for me to get more final images

for my second photo shoot i took a different bus but still took photos around town as it where i felt was most interesting the lighting wasn’t the best on this day and feel it affected the photos so they didn’t turn out as well as my other shoots but still had some i liked

for this photo shoot i captured about a hundred photos again so i used the pick and reject system again coming up with 45 images i liked the most

i then narrowed them down again using the star rating to find my favourites from the shoot and which ones were worth editing

i decided on which ones would work well in a sequence using the the colour filtering and came out with 2 prints

for this shoot i decided to try the final images in black and white to give some differentiation in my final pieces

overall i was pretty happy with how this photoshoot turn’t out and was happy with my final images i think me changing to monochrome really helped these images stand out and will do the same to some of my images from my final photoshoot and try to go during a better time of day for lighting

Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train:

Paul Fusco travelled the world as a photojournalist. But his most indelible images, portraying a nation in mourning, were captured on a single day in 1968 as he rode aboard Robert F Kennedy’s funeral train from New York to Washington.

He died on 15 July at an assisted-living facility in San Anselmo, California. He was 89. He had complications from dementia, said his son, Anthony Fusco.

During the heart of his career, Fusco was a staff photographer for Look, which in the 1960s was Life magazine’s chief competitor. Both magazines had circulations of several million each and were known for their exceptional photography.

After joining Look in 1957, Fusco worked across Europe and Asia, and from Egypt to Mexico to Brazil. Drawn particularly to the downtrodden, he photographed Kentucky coal miners, homeless people in New York, migrant farmworkers in California and rural poverty in the south.

“I want to take pictures of people that, when you see them, you can feel their lives,” he told the Record newspaper of Bergen County, New Jersey, in 2005.

As the train emerged from a tunnel under the Hudson River and entered New Jersey, Fusco saw what would become his most memorable and poignant subject: ordinary citizens alongside the railroad tracks, bearing witness and sharing grief.

“I was astounded by the people,” Fusco told the Palm Beach Post in 2010. “I just reflexively jumped up, went to the window and pulled down the top pane. And I just stood in that window for eight hours and shot film. I was overwhelmed by the constant stream of people and the variety and mixture and visible pain and loss.”

For my first photoshoot I took photographs around areas of St. Helier, from a bus journey . The weather during this photoshoot was cloudy and went from midday to afternoon t. I believe the time of day and the weather made these photos come out very effective, and contrasted well with the subjects I was photographing.

From photoshoot 1 I captured 100 photographs, I used the pick, reject flagging system on Adobe Lightroom to select my favourite images. From using this system I came up with 50 images which were my favourite from this photoshoot.

i then narrowed them down more using the star rating giving my best 5 stars which i would edit

i then used colour filtering to pick out which ones i would use in a sequence for final prints

i decided to brighten them up changing exposure, contrast and the black and whites to try create more vibrancy in the image

overall i was pretty happy with how this first photoshoot turn’t out a lot of my images came out in not the best quality but will help me to improve them for my next photoshoot but still managed to get some i liked out of so overall was a good photoshoot for me

Born in London of Greek Cypriot parents, Georgiou graduated in photography from the Polytechnic of Central London.

Georgiou’s work has focussed on communities split between different cultures. After working for six years in Serbia, Greece and eastern Europe, he was recently based for four years in Istanbul. His work in Turkey led to a series of photographs titled Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West, which has led to several exhibitions and a book. Georgiou has also taught photography at Barnet College in London and a number of workshops in Europe.

Arriving somewhere new, Georgiou’s approach is first to unburden himself of pre-existing images of the place and to try to see through superficial differences with places he knows; he then looks for commonalities and actual differences. He starts by himself and only when well underway hopes to attract commissions and make sales.

Georgiou’s early work was in black-and-white but for Fault Lines and subsequent work he moved to colour, using a compact camera with an articulated LCD that may be viewed from above, like the ground glass screen of a twin-lens reflex camera; this is because he believes it less intimidating for the people photographed than a camera held to the eye.

Georgiou belongs to Pianos Pictures His non-commercial approach has presented challenges; speaking in 2009, he described himself as having large debts but remaining optimistic.

Last stop

‘In 2008 I returned to London having spent the last nine years living and working in Eastern Europe and Turkey and was surprised by the speed of change that had taken place. I wanted to document the city, its movements and migrations, its landscape and architecture, its diversity and energy. I wanted to understand how so many people from all over the world manage to share the same space.

The double-decker bus allows me to frame the city, to give it sense. The lower level is very close to the street, where I’m almost touching the people in the traditional form of street photography. The upper deck allows me the distance to capture the layers of the urban landscape. Between these two positions everything shifts, along with the movement of the bus.

I was also fascinated by how people use public space in a big city, by that sense of shared invisibility. In sitting behind the window, I also became invisible but the bus also gives you the privilege to see and understand the emotional content of London’s everyday movements, rhythms and rituals.

The essence of the project is that you might take the same route every day but what you see, the ebb and flow on the street, takes on a random nature. To capture this flow, the concertina format of the book reflects and mimics the feel of a bus journey, but more importantly it gives the viewer the opportunity to create their own journeys by spreading the book out and combining different images together. This moves the book away from an author-led linear narrative to one of multiple possibilities.