Shot Topics
Come on! It’s worthy of a shot topic. He has a 100% record…
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STAYING TRUE TO FOLLOWER FEEDBACK
In the days since my previous blog in which I decided to shed light on photographers that ‘ i just didn’t get’ I was inundated with feedback. Some agreeable others less so. I don’t want to come across as a hater therefore I have compiled a short list of photographers that totally do it for me. I stick to street / social photography for this segment because if I were to include my favorite music photographers, fashion photographers or war photographers etc we’d be here forever. I also wanted to add that I have in fact been to exhibits by those photographers that I dissed so i really did make an attempt to get to grips with their output unfortunately they still continued to suck after their respective exhibits.
PHOTOGRAPHERS THAT TURN ME ON PART 1
RENE BURRI
One of the greats. An incredible eye for composition and finding beauty in the mundane.
Film of the Day
Patrice Lumumba is trying to sort it. His country is shedding its colonial skin and headed to liberation. The kind of liberation where the big bad colonial puppet master. Keeps his anointed dictator on a short leash granting them freedom to pillage the citizens. Lumumba disrupts the status quo cause for some strange reason he actually wants freedom for the Congolese and despite the beatings and betrayal he strives toward creating an independent agenda for one of the richest countries in Africa. He’s eventually betrayed by those you’d expect as well those least expected. His life leading up to his inevitable demise makes this movie a worthwhile flick for a worthy cause
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PHOTOGRAPHERS THAT TURN ME ON PART 2
HELEN LEVITT
What can I say. Her influence is all over my work. There. I said it..
Album of the Day
Ask my mates about my taste in music. Some will say. “He ain’t a thug but he loves thug music” This will likely be a passing reference to my weakness for gangster rap. The more observant would likely know that this fact also applies to my other great thug love. ‘Punk Rock’ and if you ever want to get your mitts on an introductory audio manual to get you started you could do a lot worse than stealing a copy (sticking to my thug theme) of ‘whatever happened to’ We’ll get into Richard Hell, Xray Spex and The Buzzcocks another time. By the way. the image to your left is not the cover. In fact I couldn’t find the cover cause there seems to be no record of this album anywhere which I guess defeats the point of writing a review. Now if that aint punk rock I don’t know what is.
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PHOTOGRAPHERS THAT TURN ME ON PART 3
So British. So colorful. So witty. An eye like no other.
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