Research

Since taking the idea of a photo being your view of reality to the extreme with views from an obvious first person Ive decided to look a little more into documentary photographers and into others blogs for a little inspiration into subject matter. I feel the project slowly materialising, now for that idea...

On the topic of photography I stumbled on an interesting article on the nature and ethics of documentary photographs taken to tell a story, the ethics of composition. Does moving an object in or out of the frame or arranging a group of people constitute a true documentary of real life events? Or if this wasnt done, would the image hold the same power or tell the same story? How much strength does the photographer truly hold when commanding our perceptions? The infamous image of the excecution of a viet cong prisoner perfectly represents this, staged around the lens.

For all those researching like me, looking at blogs, there are a decent amount of quality sites here. Interesting ones Ive found;

• 60 Sources of Inspiration - for all those with brain freezes
• Photopreneur with some useful articles like how to keyword.
• Abandoned Britian is a great urban exploration site with some fantastic images of degraded buildings.
• As for digital manipulation to the extreme, dechobek on deviant art has created some quite surreal images, as is outafocus
  

Ill leave it at that at the moment, back to the workbook..