I attended the feedback session today with Les and was with three other students who were also discussing their work. I showed him my images and the feedback he gave me was helpful. I am so used to taking photographs that look nice and interesting, so flipping to taking photographs for a journalism piece was different, as the image didn't have to look nice but just had to tell a story within the image.
Firstly, we discussed this image. As it was the Christmas fair that I photographed, Les said it was okay to use this image as one of my final ten to submit to the editors. It tells us what is happening - it's Christmas, but it also helps to set the scene for the rest of the images. I plan to caption this "Tree at Islington Mill Christmas Fair", as it explains where the tree is and opens up the rest of the images.
This next image was discussed in two different ways, positively and negatively. At the beginning, Les said that none of my images were traditionally photojournalistic, however after some discussion about my way of working, we agreed that this could be used in my final edit. It shows one of the artists I have looked deeper into, and also follows the traditional "set up" way of journalism photography.
We also agreed that this could be used, as it shows the artwork that is based at Islington Mill. Throughout this entire module, I disregarded images that did not look interesting as I believed that they would not get into the final edit. However, after looking at my friends images, he ended up having to disregard the beautiful images for the more boring snapshot photographs he had set up. However, this captures the hidden artwork of Salford, and I plan to caption this "Artwork being sold at the Islington Mill Christmas Fair"
I then staged this shot of Andrew Brooks in front of his photographs he had mounted on his wall in his office. Les told me that this was not photojournalism, as how were we to know that the photographs were his. I presumed that, because the photographs were shown on his stall in the other photographs, that it was self explanatory. However, I can understand why people would look at this photograph and think "what is this photograph trying to tell us?". It's only because I saw the photograph of the field on his business card that I presumed everyone would know it was his work. In future, when staging these shots too, I would get him to hold one of his prints and take a photograph like that, as it gives it more of a personal feel if the artist is holding their own work. It gives them much more possession over it.
This photograph was agreed to make the final edit, as the paintings and photographs around him made it look like an artists workspace and the photograph he was editing on the computer screen backed up the fact he was an artist working. I also got a shot of Paul Hallows who is a graphic designer sketching something on his desk but close up. I will be using that as well, as it shows what the artists do as their jobs and everyday life.
I like this shot for the composition, however, it's not explaining what is happening within the photographs. Like I said before, I tried so hard throughout the whole of the module to try and take photographs that looked nice, so expected good feedback from the session today. I'm not going to lie, I was upset and shocked when Les told me that my work did not hit the brief, however, over the Christmas period I am going to take more photographs of the artists and reevaluate my work so that I can create work that would be suited for a gallery space, which will be more my thing!
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