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Gareth, good effort on the demos, but... try and look for pics that say more about the reasons and issues than just the standard cops and protestors shots. Everyone does those! You've obviously got the legs and the eyes, so try and shoot around the event. Elliot Erwitt (and many others) always used to take some 'shouty ones" at the front then turn and walk all the way through the demo looking for something else.

Yep Jana, the Pagans are taking over the asylum, if only...

 

Cheers for your comments, I'd forgotten about all the stuff I'd left up here!

 

Ivan

Honestly, it's just a wall outside a secondhand furniture stall in Brick Lane Market. An excellent spot for odd/surreal reportage any day of the week (also right on my way to work). I'm a strong believer in looking at ones day to day world, anew, every day.

Argh!! I can't bear those fake photoshop frames...The picture is absolutely fabulous though. Very reminiscent of Freidlander, which has got to be a good thing. Cheers

The still is from a production of Titus Andronicus, and seeing as his character has just eaten a pie made from his own children (Eew!), it would be fair to say that he's in trouble...

With them, it's excellent, sincere journalism.

Without, it's voyuerism.

Striking work, very well done, thank you for putting it up.

Very nice, if a little too bright on the right

Now that's what I can rate as Original!!

Night over, keg drunk, hangover in the post...

Ambitious title mate!

Lovely, just lovely

Seriously stunning photojournalism. Technically, could do with some work on the left. Crucially that doesn't take anything away from the impact of the image.

The harder I look, the more I like it. It has one of my favourite qualities in any image, it me makes you ask a question and find your own answer. Fabulous, really great shot

It's lovely, but I'm confused...

You say you used Provia. It's in B/W and looks like you used a YG or Orange filter. I'm just jealous and really want to know how you did it.

This was part of a public art installation that occurs annually in

this east London Graveyard.

I thought there was enough info there. Wasn't trying to be enigmatic or ambiguous.

They are 'New age travellers' who had been trying to find somewhere in east London (Hackney) to park their vans for a few weeks or so.

They don't normally stay anywhere more than 6 weeks or so and are more environmentally aware than most of the neighbourhoods they end up in. In fact, in many areas of the country they are more than welcome back.

In this case, the Police force and local councillors had been taking an extreme approach to the situation and where following them in convoy from site to site, never giving them a chance to rest, only offering them sites that where unsuitable and unsavoury.

Hope that helps the context...Ivan

That'll be why he won an award then. Damn, knew I shoulda brought a spirit level. Mind you, he didn't have to contend with 20 Italian tourists trying to squeeze into the same hole, to take the same pic (didn't have the heart to tell them it wouldn't look the same on 35mm lens on APS...)

Yeah I kow, excuses, excuses...

Thanks for the comments

Total stunner in every respect.

But I would have prefered it if...JUST Kidding!

Yeah, really good shot under difficult (technical) circumstances

No reason for me to bite your head off.

I was waiting for someone to ask your question of me.

Responsibility and context are of the utmost importance to me as a photojournalist and human being, you simply helped raise the issue. Ta very much.

The soldier is staring at the ground because that's royal protocol. The Guardsmen look odd because they're doing the 'slidestep' which basically looks a bit like they've all stepped on dogdoo at the same time. It's supposed to be very reverential (apperently...)

If it truly is a candid (ie, no one you know) then you got yourself a gem. If you don't already know who he is, look up Gary Winogrand. Just try not to die with 5'000+ rolls of unprocessed film in the fridge...

In fact this shot really reminds me of a frame from Robert Frank's 'Americans', the one of the elevator girl. In the words of Keruoac "Hey sad eyed girl. What's your name, what's your number" (approx..)

Date stamp, Doh! Otherwise good fun.

Yikes! what happened to my screen? It's huge. It has dust & scratches on it, Newton rings and it's tonally very flat. It's also not at all interesting

Balaji,

you're correct in assuming that I am strongly connected with the subject. Susie was indeed a deeply loved family friend and your comments re my reverential nature are bang on. Susie's family asked me to document the funeral and in fact all have a copy of the Cortege shot across the Fen.

The family are happy for me to show the pictures and a large part of my reasoning for placing them on this forum was to gauge public reaction to them, in light of the fact that some newspapers here in the UK are interested in them and a larger story, on the nature and aspect of how the British deal with death and mourning.

I have to admit that it has been odd having people comment on their aesthetic (or lack thereof), but I realise (well I do now!) that the sensibilties of this forum perhaps aren't used to images and stories of this nature. That said, they are, eventually for public display and that means that Aesthetics and feedback do come into it, for which I heartily thank everyone here.

 

Ivan