Photographic Exhibition Review
Tim Hetherington: was a war photographer who delved into the lives of soldiers the amazing thing about his work is how he expresses the contrast of expectations and reality.
We as people believe the army is about strong non
emotional men, however we see threw Hetherington’s work the reality, in one set
of images he photographed the soldiers sleeping this side of the army isn’t
what we see as we always see them fighting.
Tim once quoted “ You never see them like this” what he
means by this is when he seen them asleep he had a revelation “They always look so tough… but when they’re asleep they
look like little boys. They look the way their mothers probably remember them.” I
Find the images very calm and get an innocent emotion from them because the men
have their guards down so we can see a very different side to what we expect of
the army.
Michael Kenner has travelled the world and the
photographs he has produced are something else, I was really intrigued by his
images especially the contrast of the images and how bold they are. The
majority of his photos were composed in a way I just would not think of doing,
this has inspired me to always take more images and look around, play with the
different view points, composition and zooms.
Listening to Kenner himself talk in person was more of
an inspiration it helped me to get a whole different understanding on
photography instead of just looking on the internet and making my own judgement
on an image. To hear how and why a photo was taken and his inspirations helped
me a lot to look around more look for inspirations instead of waiting for it to
happen, also learning how he exhibits his work was an eye opener knowing that he
only prints small so it draws the viewer in close making them connect with the
image is very clever and I will take note of this for future reference.
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