Power – Portraits
November 23, 2008
I would love to do something similar to this project by Richard Avedon and do my own set of portraits with people who have been involved in my life who I see as having some sort of power. People along the lines of family, friends, teachers, people I have worked with and so on and so forth.
Considering most of my family are really camera shy that totally takes them out of the frame so then we move onto people outside of family. I was mainly thinking of teachers who have had an influence on my life. My year six teacher Mr. Underwood who actually got me into school work and made it fun for me. Mr. Streeting my form tutor throughout the whole of my secondary school life. Mrs. Roberts who in sixth form taught me that I can actually do whatever I want to. Jonathon Worth who in my second year of University got me properly into photography and so on and so forth. I could also extend this to people who I have known that have had influences on my life outside of education. With people like this I’m talking about Stacey Guiney who gave me my first job in a record store and opened up my head to all sorts of music. Spencer Hickman another employer who introduced me properly to film and opened my mind up to a lot more different types of movies and so on.
These are people who in my life have held some sort of power over me and have influenced my life in some way or another. They are people that I have spent a lot of time with and who I will always remember. The problem with doing a project like this is the plain and simple fact of finding some of the people and also having the time to hunt them all down which at the moment I really do not have. It could also be seen that I am simply copying Avedon’s idea but my idea of people with power and Avedon’s idea are quite different things. I do not have the access to the same sorts of people that Avedon had access to so it does change the idea of the project quite a bit.
