Raised By Wolves- Jim Goldberg

Raised By Wolves is about probes the gap between dreams and reality in the lives of teenage runaways living on the streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and bout a neglected community which people don’t think about, and the youth which are getting lost in addiction and substance abuse, this project let the people be heard and seen when they hadn’t been before. Jim Goldbergs work always shows a divide in society predominantly focusing on the side which most people don’t see and making people see it this aspect of his work is truly moving n the sense he gives people voices and allows them to tell their story’s when no one else would listen.

His work is documentary, made to make people think twice about how other people live and to not take things for granted.

Jim Goldberg

Jim Goldberg is an American photographer who likes to focus a lot of his work on the neglected and ignored populations he takes time on these projects collecting thousands of photographs to make sure that the photos he choses represents his thoughts and views on the subject/ mater he is trying to get across, Goldberg uses film and digital cameras to create his book Raised By Wolves which shows a neglected and hurt population, his work is moving to his audiences as his work has been personalised by the people who he has included in it from people writing notes, drawings and dialog, this shows he is a photographer who wants to make an impact on people and wants to get people to speak up about where and who they come from.

Many awards and grants received by Goldberg for Raised By Wolves are a Guggenheim Fellowship (1985), two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1989, 1990), the Mother Jones Documentary Photography Award (1989), and the Ernst Haas Award for Photography Book of the Year (1995).

Construction Of The Book

Raised By Wolves is constructed by fitting images, drawings and writing that has been scanned in and placed in the photo, there are polaroids and film negatives used in the photo-book, the use of multiple different photography elements gives the book depth and a more interesting approach.

The book itself is printed on thick printing paper, this a card front cover making it a soft copy, which is glossy, the images are mainly taken in black and white, in a high resolution, and the images which are in colour are typically vibrant, the sizing of the book is slightly larger than a A4 piece of paper with 315 pages, some of the images being full bleed across both pages and sometimes one page with may not taking up the full page and being accompanied with handwriting.

My Photobook

To create the photo book we have used blurb which links to Lightroom Classic allowing us to work in Lightroom and do all editing and placement on one program, I have selected a small square book with a hardcover back and matte paper which I think will reflect well on the images I have taken due to them being taken on film.

To get the framing up you need to press the black box with the arrow on it which will allow you to pick the bleed and placement of the image you are placing, you are able to adjust it to wherever you want it to be but by using the suggested placement this allows the image to be well centered and have equal white space and measurements.

I have placed my photographs in a sequence that i believe fit well due to them being taken at different times of the year, I have tried to make the photographs all flow together.

I have put some photographs on two pages to try to break up the sequence making the book more eye-catching, they are all going to have a white border around except for the ones which have are on a double page spread the reasoning behind this is due to the sizing of the photobook i don’t want to cut out any part of the photographs and by having them in that way with the white border it doesn’t cut anything and i think it gives them a slick look.

I have placed these two photographs together on a double page spread as the pole in both photos flows together making both photos look like one.