----------- February 2007. (view more)
----------- March 2007.
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----------- see my photographs in #11 of Y Sin Embargo Magazine
My street portraiture project "Photographing the Multitude" currently consists of more than 1,000 candid portraits of the people of Birmingham, England.
More than 200 of my photographs can be seen in low-image-quality slideshow format in my blog, above.
After a break of nearly a year I re-started my project in April 2008.
My photography is inspired and informed by my BA, MA and Ph.D studies in sociology.
My intentions are:
--- To show and record the multitude of people on the streets of Birmingham, England (a post-industrial, multicultural city of one million people).
--- To produce humane, sympathetic, candid portraits that show or suggest something of each subject's personality, identity or biography.
--- To produce images that express a range of human characteristics or emotions; vanity and modesty, calm and stress, confidence and fragility, humour and bad-temper, affection and disaffection, joy and misery.
My project has so far been confined to Birmingham, England.
I intend to gradually broaden the geographical scope of my project over the next year.
The below photographs were taken in April and May 2008.
They are very small and very low quality versions of the original images.
