Bill, our tutor introduced us to an artist by the name of Richard Billingham.
He is renowned for his fly on the wall documentary style photographing and videography of his family.
Richard Billingham (born 25 September 1970) was born in Birmingham UK, about an hour away from me. He studied at Bournville College of Art as a painter. He stumbled across what he is now famous for by taking numerous photographs of his family in action to then select just one single image to paint for his assignment. When showing his tutor the images, his tutor told him he was done, that ALL of these images were his final piece of work and needed to do no more AND THAT WAS THAT!
He went on to to take CANDID PHOTOGRAPHY of his family which finally became a book called RAYS A LAUGH (his fathers name being Ray)
I found after looking at his images, my first impressions of his parents were that they were alcoholic, selfish people with poor hygiene. Once viewing one of my favourite videos the FISH TANK I looked at tem from a totally different light. The dynamics and essence he captured through his photos and films is unique. The close up shots, almost following where you would be looking naturally if you were there are unique.
You become for the duration of the move, a part of his family.
His family became totally oblivious to his filming and photographing after some time and I think this is what created the unique natural shots that he captured.
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| Dad Ray & cat! |
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| Liz |
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| RAY & LIZ |
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