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Frame 36 - 01/07/18

July 1st, 2018

A very short post this week as I wind down for a family holiday and busy myself with finishing some freelance contracts so I can lay off the emails for a few weeks! I’ve begun shooting new project work and made some progress in terms of getting in touch with new groups and people to photograph. I’ll no doubt include some of this work in progress in future posts. For now a couple of projects for you to browse that caught my eye on Huck magazine’s website.



The first, ‘Remains of a Soviet Utopia’, a project by Piepke and Nolting documents a housing estate that was once a Soviet utopia. The series features a range of portraits of inhabitants of the settlement and also images of the environment that they find themselves in. Interestingly for me at least is the inclusion of the stories of the inhabitants that caption some of the portraits. Is photographing a group of people’s situation and surrounding locations simply enough? This is something I am starting to investigate in my own practice.


The second project, ‘The First Time’ sees photographer Matteo de Mayda capture Icelandic footballers and fans as they prepare for one of the biggest sporting events in their country’s history. 



As I begin to make plans to photograph my own series around local football in my local area it’s strange to see a project that quite literally depicts the sort of imagery that I had in my mind when considering my photographic approach. I think that if I can incorporate personal story telling or interviews from the subjects of my images I can ensure my work is slightly different in its outcome.

So as I mentioned, a short post this week but I’m sure that there is enough in these two fabulous series for you to mull over during your Sunday morning. I’ll be taking a little time off from posting during my aforementioned family holiday but I’ll be back with more projects and articles soon, hopefully with some work in progress material of my own too!

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