My Photographs In The Style Of Martin Parr

These photographs are a few of a series i have taken in the style of Martin Parr, his photographs are of everyday life, they are snapshots to show his life and how he lives it, like a diary.

Martin Parr

Parr began work as a professional photographer and has subsequently taught photography intermittently from the mid-1970s. He was first recognised for his black-and-white photography in the north of England, Bad Weather (1982) and A Fair Day (1984), but switched to colour photography in 1984. The resulting work, Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton, was published in 1986. Since 1994, Parr has been a member of Magnum Photos. He has had almost 50 books published, and featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide - including an exhibition at the Barbican Arts Centre, London. In 2007, his retrospective exhibition was selected to be the main show of Month of Photography Asia in Singapore. In 2008, he was made an Honorary Doctor of Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in recognition for his ongoing contribution to photography and to MMU's School of Art.

Amelia Beavis-Harrison

Amelia Beavis-Harrison is an artist and curator currently based in Nottingham, UK. This website documents some of the art work and curatorial projects produced since 2007. Amelia initiated and runs Lincoln Art Programme, a live art commissioning body in Lincoln, alongside her freelance work.

Amelia makes art work that is informed by histories, mythologies, situations, occurrences, conversations and the production of art. Using research as a process of investigation for creating work Amelia interrogates subject matters to develop concepts, whilst using snippets of information gathered from common sources such as newspapers and the internet. Research into both the unusual and the trivial create starting points for investigation, which often leads to performance, action and text based work. An element of Amelia’s performance work looks to investigate the role that costume has in performance and its function as an object. The key strands that run through Amelia’s practice are the presentation of performance in an immersive and collaborative manor, many of the works she produces involve audience participation, whilst at times working with other practitioners to bring the work to fruition. Amelia’s text work uses influences from the every day and the under exposed inform the works outcomes. Through gestures, visualisations and the blatantly obvious she explores ideas and re-conditions them in her art.

Jade Birchnall

Jade Birchnall uses a medium format film camera and enjoys shooting her images in black and white. She did a series of images featuring a home of elderly people and the nuns who cared for them. Each individual portrait of each person really portrays and shows that particular persons character. I found the photographs very interesting and moving because it just shows how sad and lonely some of the elderly residents actually were because you can jut see it in their expressions yet their individual character still shines through. 

My favourite series of images that she did were the ones of the strippers, i liked them because they pushed the boundaries of art showing that she did not care what others thought of her work. I liked how the images were in black and white because it gave a dark contrast and highlighted the imperfections on each women's body. also in each of the images you can see a slight innocence in some of the women's eyes, maybe because they are embarrassed of what they do, maybe they have no other option, it brings mystery to the images.

Erik Knudsen

Erik Knudsen is Professor of Film Practice at the University of Salford in Manchester, UK, where he is currently the Head of The School of Media Music and Performance. He regularly conducts guest workshops at international film schools, such as the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba, where he was Head of Editing between 2001 and 2009. He was born in Ghana to a Danish father and Ghanaian mother in 1956. He grew up, and was primarily educated, in Denmark, with a few years of schooling in Britain. After a stint of Law studies at Århus University in Denmark, he then went on to study film production at York University in Toronto, Canada, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Specialist Honours in Film Production in 1983. He returned to Britain in 1984, where he has lived and worked since. He gained his PhD from the University of Salford, 2002.

this is an example of his still life photography.

This is a screen grab from one of his films 'Silent Accomplice', Set in rural and urban Britain, The Silent Accomplice is a story seen through the perspective of water that flows from a spring to the sea. This ever-present silent protagonist engages with people in often intimate moments in their lives, giving us an unusual and intimate snap shot of contemporary living. Episodic and peripatetic in construction, and poetically blending fiction and documentary, the narrative weaves its way in and out of specific people's lives to reveal a Britain with hidden and unspoken disparities and aspirations.