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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 PlantNovember 24, 2015

Future of Cities

Future of Cities Report. The UK government has a report on The Future of Cities written in conjunction with Lancaster University. The report outline four types of possible future cities and my guess is we will get a mixture of all four elements in most cities of the future with varying mixtures depending on location and …

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Posted in Photography, Random thoughts, Street Photography, Theory

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 22, 2015
London Street Photography By Michael Wayne Plant

Projects – photography.

Career development is something we all need to think about as photographers. I have been busy behind the scenes, working on what I need to do to move my work (i.e. projects) forward. I now have a working outline for what I want to achieve over the next few years and an ambitious goal that will …

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Posted in Random thoughts, Street Photography, Theory

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantAugust 22, 2013

Bending the Frame by Fred Ritchin

Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen. by Fred Ritchin Available from: Amazon US Link, UK Link,   I have been reading the above book and think it is a book that anyone interested in documentary photography and photojournalism has to read. It discusses a wide range of ideas about contemporary photography and how documentary is evolving. I …

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Posted in Photographic Education, TheoryTagged and the Citizen, Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, Fred Ritchin

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantApril 3, 2013

Thinking through: Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary by Allan Sekula.

Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation). by Allan Sekula. The following is my initial attempt at breaking down the ideas behind Allan Sekula”s Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation). All words in bold and direct quotes from the text that I’m exploring. My reading of this is that  “an artwork …

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