Sunday, 17 October 2010

Experimenting with photographer's styles

As a response to my timeline of the photograph, I wanted to experiment with a few photographers styles and so for my first experiment I was influenced by Yokomizo and her 'Stranger' series of photographs;





This is where Yokomizo selected the subjects' addresses and then wrote an anonymous letter asking if the recipiant would stand at a particular window, alone, with the room lights on, at a specific time of night so that she could photograph them from the street. If they did not want to participate then they simply shut the curtains. I took this influence and used car windows instead of house windows as i wanted to make the photos my own and not just copy another photographer's work.
Here are some photos which I took:


Eventhough I experimented with Yokomizo's style, with my photos you can also link them with a man called Oscar Fernandez Gomez who had his own photography exhibition in Brighton due to Martin Parr who saw his work and immediately saw something special within it. Oscar Fernandez Gomez's photos were mainly what he had taken while out and about in his taxi. His photography was just a hobbie in which has now became quite famous. These photos, above, link very well with his work as he takes photos from inside his taxi out onto the street whereas mine was taken on the street looking into people's cars but both have the shape of the window panel within them.
Here is one of his photographs:



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