Final images

I decided to choose the best of my images and use those to show the contrast between the nice looking front of shops and what they look like if you were to go round the back of these places, i found the contrast in some cases shocking..and on several occasions the lack of cleanliness disgusted me.

Development of Idea

After the feedback session, we discussed that it would be a good idea for me to show a mix of shop front and what it looks like round the back in comparison.

First set of digital images

After looking at my film images, i went out and took some more on my DSLR. the aim of these images was to show places in and around manchester that society would rather not see.

First set of images

For the first set of images, i went out with a film camera, with the aim to look at images that were different to what you would normally see on your day to day life round the city.

The aim was to create a slight rustic look which shows the decay of neglected items.

Rory Carnegie

Rory Carnegie is another photographer is another photographer who takes an interesting slant on the way in which we view the city. In a number of his images he focuses on the emotions of members of the public who or in their own world sat on a but, maybe going home from work, or in the bus going to work.

However, when i look at these images, i feel that some of them look staged as the people in the images look slightly posed.

Richard Billingham

Richard Billingham

As the focus for this project it The city, I thought it would be appropriate to look at Richard Billingham's Black Country images. In this project he took images to document his childhood neighbourhood Cradley Heath. The work consisted of a selection of images that were taken in degenerated places around that area, with the intention of creating an image that encourages the viewer to think more about the places in which they reside.

The reason why I like these images is that it encourages you to look at the areas of where you live / your local city that you may not look at, or may not often look at.

Alexey Titarenko

One Photographer whose work i particularly like is Alexey Titarenko. I enjoy looking at the long shutter speeds that he uses to generate a ghostly image in the city, of people doing their shopping or going about their daily business. I feel that these images are fantastic for several reasons, and can have a lot of meaning if you read into them. They firstly show just how much movement there is in the city on throughout the day. Secondly i feel that these images show the passage of time really well and how the way in which things change with time differ with this change in time. For example the busy people moving around in a blur shows that we are always changing and dislike being tied down to one place. it also shows how in general we don't like to waste time by aimlessly hanging around. In contrast to this however it the sharp in focus buildings show that although they do change with the passage of time, they are effected much less and slower than we are effected and that they are in-effected buy our over busy lifestyle.

I can also read in to the images been in black and white and ghostly could either show how we pass on from the world into nothingness, or that we often think of memories as foggy black and white and unclear, often being busy and confusing.