LILIAN LE

Photographic Interests:

 

Before I began my passion project, I listed out what interested me about photography:

 

• Geometrey and composition - structure

• Shadows and constrasts - exentuated through B+W filter

• Light and purple/pink based pastels - colour tone?? (I did not include this in my end product)

• Capturing people in their natural state

• Use of blank space - negative space

• Capturing the urban environment - street life

 

After having listed all these interests, I found that I was passionate about street photography.

 

 

 

Street Photography:

 

But what is street photography? After doing a bit of research I found:

 

Street Photography uses the raw approach of straight photography from which it derives.

Street Photography is unstaged photography, a challenge of the photographer with himself, an attitude, a state of mind. It is a reflection of every day life through the eye of a photographer able to document the ordinary capturing the decisive moment, or what others don't see.

 

“If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph” 

- Bruce Gilden -

 

 

 

What to convey:

 

I then decided to list a couple of themes/things that I would try to convey:

 

• Isolation 

• Balance and symmetry

• Hustle and bustle of the city life

• Serenity within the buildings/alleyways themsleves

• Harmony within human motion and still objects

 

After this I was able to determine my statement of intent

 

 

Statement of Intent:

 

I am interested in photographys ability to capture the

beauty in the mundane of everyday city life.