Themes for Photography Portfolio
City & Guilds
People and Portraits
Formal Portraits
• Studio setting• Follows
conventions of portraiture
• Use of standard lighting
Daguerre -
• Can include self portraits• Issues of identity arise
Robert Mapplethorpe
Martin Schoeller
Informal Portraits
• Non studio setting• Not following
conventions of portraiture
• Not always ‘perfect’ images
Bill Brandt - Portrait of Francis Bacon
Edward Steichen’s
Alex Majoli
Environmental Portraits
• Seeks to categorise by job type and sometimes person type, including class, gender etc
Hill and Adamson
August SanderRobert CapaPaul Strand
Built Environment
Andres Gursky
Paul Strand
Ansel Adams
Still Life
Immogen Cunningham
Edward weston
William Eggleston
Irving Penn
Nature
•Conventional landscapes following art conventions
•Rule of thirds•vanishing Point
Gustav le Gray
Edward Steiglitz
Martine Frank
Ansel Adams
Ernst Haast
Reportage
Saiful Huq Omi
The Disowned and Denied
For decades, the xenophobic, Burmese military junta has refused to recognize the Rohingya as a distinct Muslim ethnic minority living in western Burma. Internationally, their story is under reported. The Rohingya are probably the most voiceless and stateless refugee community in the world
Jürgen Bodamer
Galways fishing
By 1970 only two boats remained, whereas eye witnesses report that they have seen 20 boats in the harbour of Inis Mór, the biggest of the three Árainn Islands and 35 boats sailing out of Conamara