I find Dougie Wallace’s approach and visual style of street photographer really interesting and inspiring. His subject matter is very honest and reminicent of real life, he photographs the more abrasive parts of society. His use of bright flash leaves no where to hide and brings out intense detail, very different to the aesthetic anonymity of most mainstream street photography. Using a wide lens to take photos up close makes the viewer feel as if they are in the image.
I found the photographs from his series THE AGE OF WEALTH inspiring because I enjoy shooting photos in the street but can be daunting sometimes to photograph complete strangers candidly. Shooting through windows is a way to add a bit of a barrier, which is an exercise I could use to build confidence photographing strangers.
http://www.dougiewallace.com/blackpool
PERMISSIONS: It is legal to use photographs for art (exhibited, published, etc) but NOT advertising. Be careful captioning photographs – don’t say too much about people in frame to avoid being accused of things like deformation of character. But anything observable on the street/in a public place is publishable.
Wallace’s series EAST ENDED is about the contrast of high end adverts, gentrified street art and edgy wannabes, and the local working and lower class in East End London. This inspired me because it reminded me of my own local town of Morecambe which is in the process of being gentrification (high end street art, growing presence of bigger companies) but it still housed to the local working and lower class people. It would be challenging for me to do a similar project on Morecambe but I think the photographs have the potential to be really good and shed light on how gentrification affects local people.
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