This is another photographic piece of ordinary people going about their every day life. It is a 100m long photograph by Simon Hoegsburg taken over twenty days as people crossed a brige in Berlin. The thing that interests me about this piece if the fact that most of the poeple who were being photographed didn't seem aware that their everyday movements were of interest to someone else, let alone being recorded.
Hogsburg said the photograph is about 'the uniqueness of ‘ordinary’ people' which is pretty much what I am trying to portray in my project.
Another piece of his which I really like is 'Faces of New York' which is a portrait photography series where he asks the subjects the same question, records their answers and then takes a photo of them. What I like the most about this series is the way he has presented them - he takes a full length photograph and then displays this next to a close up of the face from the same image. This method means that you absorb the person as you would in reality; you initially see a whole person and then you focus on the face and take in the features. I think this is so effective and is something I would definitely like to try. The questions he asked - What do you think about your face - and the answers received also add a depth to the pieces, giving you a little insight into these peoples' train of thought and personality.
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