Documentary

Documentary Mood Board

Documentary is a picture which shows a story, as you can see in my mood board you can tell by some of their faces that they are unhappy and alone. Just by looking at the pictures I understood what it was bring to show. 

Angelo Merendino is known for his documentary photography from when he was taking pictures of his wife struggling through breast cancer. 

Objectively in this picture it is so simple but it shows so much emotion and thought. If you didn't know that she was suffering with cancer in this picture you would of just thought it was a normal picture. However because we know that she is suffering from cancer you look at the picture in more detail. No one knows what she is thinking, no one knows how hard she is struggling and non one knows who much pain she is in. You can tell she is in deep thought in this photo and we can only guess what she is thinking. You can see in her emotions that she knows what is coming and by the colour of the picture being black and white it makes you focus on her even more. You can tell she is holding everything in and just wants to sit and think for a minuet. Subjectively, this photo is so powerful just by looking at it and thinking about it, it brings out so many emotions, thoughts and feelings. Making you think about life and appreciating it even more. As you can see through the window there is a woman pushing a pram so you can't even begin to think of how she is feeling watching this, knowing that she wont be able to have kids of her own and knowing that her life will be over soon.  

Dorothea Lang  was born on 26th May 1895 and died October 11th 1965. She was an American documentary photographer, she is known for her work on depression-era. 

Wife and child of tractor driver.  Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi.  June, 1937.

Japanese mother and daughter, agricultural workers near Guadalupe, California.  March, 1937.

"Migrant Mother" Destitute pea pickers in California.  Mother of seven children.  Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California.  February or March, 1936. 

Objectively in this picture of Lang's you can see that the person she has photographed is in deep thoughts and you can see by her emotions that she is upset and depressed about something. She has two children leaning on her who also seem upset, you can see the story in this picture has to do with something breaking up this family and upsetting them. The woman seems like she has given up and doesn't want to  carry on living in the way she is. She has got so much responsibility looking after so many children, she needs to keep them all happy an healthy and it doesn't look like she is coping with it. Subjectively when you look at this picture you straight away focus on the woman's face and her emotions, you can immediately that she isn't happy and that something has upset all three of them.

Unemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, camped on a river bottom near Holtville, California.  March, 1937.

Mary Ellen Mark was born March 20th 1940, she is an american photographer she has achieved three Robert T. Kennedy Journalism Awards and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She discovered photography at age 9 with a Box Brownie camera. 

Laurie, Ward 81, 1976

Lily, 1983

Objectively in this image that Mark took you can see the child is smoking which is not something you would see a child this young doing, however the child is also holding a teddy showing that they do have a soft and young side to them. By the child smoking you can see that this isn't what they would normally do, you can see by the surroundings around them that they are in a rough area, and they have that look about them they are frightened. The child is alone and looks like they are fearful although they look quite strong and as if they know what they are doing. The picture is also very dark which puts across that the child is in a dark place and it also makes you focus on the child even more and their emotions and what they are doing. You can see that the child's eyes are focusing on something and you can tell that they look quite angry with whatever they are looking at.  

Andre Kertesz, 1983

Rosalind Solomon
Witchdoctor,
Chichicastenango,
Guatemala
1979

Here is some documentary which I have done showing the process of some street wall art. You can see the concentration on their faces when they are using the spray paint trying not to go over lines and making sure that they do their best. You can see on one of the pictures the numbers on the board this was because they all had individual numbers so they got to share the roles out equally, and so they were all able to have a go at doing all the different stages, to be able to create the wall art. Then as you can see at the end they all got to take one home with them.

Here are some of my other documentary which I did on my dad at his work place. It shows his journey to work and what happens there In the fist image he is walking through the door so he has just arrived there. In the second image is his office space and I have highlighted some of the images on his wall.In the third image you have someone cutting the chicken meat so it can be served to customers.Then in the last image it is of the front of the shop showing you what the customers see when they go in. :