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Dave Heath

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One of the photographers I came across whilst undertaking Context and Narrative was Dave Heath. I saw a small exhibition of his work at the Photographers Gallery and blogged about it here. Heath had a difficult childhood, his father leaving the family when he was one, his mother abondoning him when he was four and his grandparents declining to raise him. As a result he was raised in an orphanage and a series of foster homes in Philadelphia. It is possible that this difficult upbringing influenced his work much of which has a sense of sadness about it. Many of … Continue reading Dave Heath

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Exercise 2.2- Covert (P.64)

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Closely consider the work of the practitioners discussed above, then try to shoot a series of five portraits of subjects who are unaware of the fact they are being photographed. The five photographers mentioned in the introduction to this to exercise, Walker Evans, Philip-Lorca diCorza, Lukas Kuzma, Martin Parr and Tom Wood; all adopted different approaches to capture covert images. Evans and diCorza’s approaches were very technical with hidden cameras and remote shutter release. Tom Wood adopted an almost polar opposite approach of hiding in plain sight; by regularly attending the same venue and giving prints to the people he … Continue reading Exercise 2.2- Covert (P.64)