Walker Evans

Walker Evans was an American photographer and photojournalist. These photographs are some of his formalism photographs, he has captured images of different tools against a white background. This allows the object to be the main focal point and be seen clearly. There are no shapes made out of any lights in these photographs as it is focussed on the whole area. These photographs are quite simplistic since the subject of the image is quite central, in the majority of his photographs. This leaves quite lot of negative space around the object. His photos are very monochromatic since it’s mostly black, white and grey ones with a couple of them having more yellow/orange tones.

Darren Harvey-Regan

Darren Harvey-Regan did similar work to Walker Evans as Evans inspired him. He used two halves of sperate tools and then joined them together to photograph. This put a unique spin to the past similar work, and modernised it. His work is eye-catching because of its beauty and quirks.

“It’s a means of transposing material into other material, adding new meaning or thoughts in the process. I think photographing materials is a way to consider the means of creating meaning, and it’s a tactile process with which I feel involved. Touching and moving and making are my engagement with

For the shoot I started out by choosing objects that I could make a nostalgic tie to, for example I used to play the violin and music has always been a big part of my family. I then added in some objects that looked cool or

I started off by thinning down my photos to the ones I thought where the best. that got me from 66 down to 12. However, I then further removed a photo as it wasn’t the best.

I then edited my photos to a basic level with pushing up the exposer in darker ones, altering the shadows so they looked a bit better and cropping them, I could see which ones I liked the most.

Picking the three that worked the best I then further edited them changing the temperature on some and sharpening the others to just get the letter right on the book without making the scratches on the violin to distinct.

Using colours and stars to identify which was my best and which was the best out of the three and these were my final pieces.