Jim Goldberg
Moodboard
Overview
Method’s-
A key method that Jim Goldberg uses is street photography. He takes images that are mostly candid and images of street names and many different signs to signify different key concepts.
Style-
Jim Goldbergs photographic style is very warm toned, mainly black and white photos that give off a dark wintery feel.
Approach-
Jim Goldberg mainly uses documentary photography, to capture real-life events, people, and places in an honest and objective manner.
Subject Matter-
Urban/Architecture: Focuses on man-made structures like buildings, streets, or cityscapes. Social and Political Issues: This subject matter explores societal, cultural, or political topics, often with a goal of raising awareness or documenting significant moments in history.
Key Image
The reason I have chosen this image as my key image is because I love how the backdrop is so minimal. It’s such a simple image that connotates all the themes of my book. My main theme is youth culture, this skateboard heavily connotates a teenagers use. I like how the skateboard has clearly been used and battered around, explaining how teenagers have a certain anger within them that they need to unleash.
The technical analysis of this image would be how it is clearly taken using a light box, and a flash. This is to exemplify all the things the skateboard has been trough.
The main visual element of this is of course the skateboard in itself, I like how its visual elements will be very different from all my other images. My other images are going to include people and life which just makes this image even more special.
A contextual element of this would be how teenagers tend to skateboard, and how there was a massive debate over whether it was a hobby or a sport, but I think that it makes people realize that no one really cares either way, it’s not a sort of competition it’s clearly a form of anger release.
My conceptual element would yet again be how it is a form of anger release. This is a sort of therapy for struggling teens.
Tom Wood
Moodboard
Overview-
Method’s-
He mainly uses candid and unposed photography, his street photography is marked by the ability to capture raw, authentic expressions of people, often in public settings like streets, markets, or at social gatherings.
Style-
He uses street photography, a style that involves capturing spontaneous moments of everyday life in public spaces. His images document ordinary people in their natural environments, focusing on unguarded, candid expressions.
Approach-
Wood often captures environmental portraits, where the subject is shown in their natural surroundings, adding context and depth to the photograph. The environment plays a significant role in telling the subject’s story. Environmental portraits provide insight into the subject’s life or background, making the setting just as important as the person. Wood’s careful use of location reveals socio-economic backgrounds, emotional states, and the relationship between the person and their environment.
Subject Matter-
Everyday people and candid moments, Tom Wood’s photography is deeply rooted in the depiction of ordinary people- often captured in candid, unposed moment’s. His subjects range from strangers in the street to close acquaintances in social settings.
Key Image
The reason I have chosen this image as my key image is because I think that it is so conceptual, it unlocks so much through a simple landscape image. It connotates the theme of my book because I want y book to be very minimal, I want to leave a lot for people to consider and connotated themselves, creating a very subjective vibe.
My technical analysis of this image is that its taken using daylight, creating a nice blend between the colouring., The bright blue sky blends in with the shine on the buildings.
My visual analysis of this image is a good use of third’s. By having a main object in the foreground, background and the middle it creates a nice blend between the objects. It doesn’t specifically pull you in and focus on one, allowing for wider viewing.
My contextual analysis is that it creates a deeper meaning of the working population, like working teens or teens in school and how they’re generally disregarded, people always say children are so expensive but what about teens, is that when we are just meant to fend for ourselves?
My conceptual analysis of this image is the notion of working people and public spaces. I want to focus on public shared places, because a place that could be so special to us may also be the core memories’ of others, and that’s what we don’t realise. We all think that we have individual experiences, when in reality we all live on the same earth, with the same shared places, so really how much of you can be individual?
Danny Evans
Danny Evans is a Jersey photographer. I am really inspired by his skateboarding project. The reason that this inspired me so much was because it had so much local meaning to people, allowing to portray a cultural reference.
Extras-
Some extras I have taken inspiration from include red bulls Instagram page, red bull have many side quests apart from selling their famous drinks and one of them is how tapped in they are with skate culture. They also produced an article about ‘skate photographers you must follow’ and I have taken a lot of inspiration from this article.
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/10-skate-photographers-to-follow-on-instagram