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AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 6, 2017
City of London Street Photography By Michael Wayne Plant, Documentary Style Street Photography,

Documentary Style Street Photography

An approach to making work. Documentary Style, Street Photography. I think this term ‘Documentary style street photography’ is rather good at describing how I think about my own approach to making images, for my current project on the streets of the City of London as a street photographer. In writing about Walker Evans, I happened across …

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Posted in Documentary, Making new images, On Photography, Photographic Education, Photographic Influences, Photography, Process, Street Photography, Theory

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantSeptember 16, 2017

Featured on Creative Londoners

Exposing Neoliberalism on www.CreativeLondoners.com   I have just had an interview on my City of London social documentary/street photography project published on Creative Londoners, it is a new website writing articles/interviews about you guessed it, ‘Creative Londoners’. Oli Gudgeon started the website to write about this subject. He has already done a few interviews and I …

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Posted in Documentary, Michael Wayne Plant, On Photography, Photographic Influences, Photography, Photography Talk, Street Photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantSeptember 13, 2017
City of London Street Photography By Michael Wayne Plant

Street Photography in London

In January 2016, I started a social documentary project to photograph the City of London. This projects is ongoing and evolving over time. When I started I thought it would take me about a year to make a set of images and I would move onto something else. Part way into the project England voted for …

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Posted in City of London, Documentary, Michael Wayne Plant, On Photography, Portfolio, Street PhotographyTagged Social Documentary photography, Street Photographer London, Street photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 15, 2016

Its all about what you photograph

One of my passions is social documentary photography, that is the work that I feature on this website. I have since 2009, been the lead photography Lecturer at Idea Store Learning, in Tower Hamlets. A role, that I am giving up on the 24th of January, to return full time to photography. In my time teaching photography, one …

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Posted in Documentary, Michael Wayne Plant, Photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantOctober 6, 2016

Which City of London?

I am probably going to be doing quite a few posts about this topic in the next few months and maybe even years. I have been since the beginning of the year working on a project to photograph the City of London. I discovered that Martin Parr, has been doing the same thing over the past …

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Posted in City of London, Documentary, Economics, Inspiration, Photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 14, 2015

Politics and Photgraphy

Here is a thought that for me won’t go away. If I follow my thoughts on politics, I end up on the left of contemporary debates by political parties, which is were I believe most people end up being. Yet, if we listen to the media talk and look at what has happened in both UK …

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Posted in Documentary, Economics, Inspiration, Politics, Random thoughtsTagged Development of ideas as a photographer, photography and ethics

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantAugust 5, 2014

Marco del Pra’s Atterwasch

Marco del Pra’s Atterwasch story at atterwasch.net “atterwasch. is a documentary about the German village of Atterwasch which is under pressure to make way for a brown coal open-cast mine, despite the fact that the village exemplifies Germany’s acclaimed energy transition. This multimedia documentary focuses on the uncertainty Atterwasch’s residents were confronted with over a one-year period …

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Posted in Documentary, Economics, Inspiration, Photographers, PhotographyTagged Atterwasch, documentary photography, Marco del Pra

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantJune 7, 2014

Maida Hill Market Images

Maida Hill Market Images   I was commissioned recently to make images of a new market called the Maida Hill Market on the corner of Harrow Road and Elgin Avenue, W9 London. It was a nice long day with me getting there when the market traders were busy setting up, allowing me to introduce myself and get familiar …

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AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantApril 15, 2014

Revisiting Margate

This Easter, I will be revisiting Margate as I am staying there for two nights over Easter. I am looking forward to making more images in Margate, as I want to see further out from the centre of town. I will post the results when I have edited them.

Posted in Documentary, Photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantJanuary 6, 2014

Two Thousand and Fourteen, Art project

Two Thousand and Fourteen, is an art project documenting 2014. This Project could be interesting. especially for a documentary inspired photographer, who is influenced by the news. PROJECT TWO THOUSAND AND FOURTEEN IS HERE! CURRENTLY SEEKING CONTRIBUTORS Each day this year, from 1st January – 31st December, visual artists, illustrators and media professionals will be contributing …

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