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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
I am a father of two, who has been a paramedic for 15 years and a professional photographer for around 5. That is until recently, from the 1st of May 2017 I will no longer work on the frontline full time. Instead I have made the transition from specialist paramedic to advanced practitioner and will be working full time in primary care. This blog will chart the development of myself from my current role of specialist paramedic to an advanced practitioner. In the last year I was diagnosed with Ankylosing spondylitis. Which is a degenerative condition which affects the spine. While this diagnosis saddened me obviously. It also came as a relief as I had struggled for over a year and had no idea what was wrong with me. So the diagnosis also came with some relief as I finally had a name to put to my condition. It did help me to look forward and consider a new career pathway. I am the first paramedic to work in primary care in my practice area. This is quite an accolade.

Friday 23 October 2009

Selective view


Selective view


I choose to look at the selective in context with the human form. I liked the way images can sometimes reveal a small detail that leaves the viewer wanting to know more about the subject.


This is something that I myself had previously explored on occasion, but I wanted to examine the human form in even greater detail than before. See below :















This time I wanted to be even more suggestive and leave more to the viewer to decide what was happening in the image.






For my research into selective view I went to the library and borrowed two books and a magazine (aperture).the image that inspired me the most was from a book called : Icons of the 20th century photography by Whoever.




In the book I found the following image by Ralph Gibson.
I loved the detail and contrast between light and dark in this image and it inspired me to look into the photographers work further which I did at the following website ; http://www.ralphgibson.com/


At the website I found a collection of work that particularly interested medated between 1961 – 2005 called Infanta. It was this collection and in particular the following image that inspired me the most.









Once there I found a whole host of other images that further inspired me.I really liked the use of light and shade in this image, but felt it was not as selective as the brief required.

 








I also found the following image very interesting, as it focused only on a very small feature of the face. Once again leaving the viewer to decide what the rest of the story was, how old, what sex, etc....












 

This was another image that I found interesting from the same collection. Again it was a selective view but this time shot from a more interesting viewpoint.


 After getting some intial inspiration I tried Flickr, which I personally find a very inspiring website full of images. 








It seemed apparent looking at this photograph that this photographer was some influenced either direct or indirectly, by photographers like Ralph Gibson. See image below :







































Another image that inspired me was again from Flickr from a portugese photographer called Lidia Ramalhos. I particularly liked the shape at the point where the two heads joined together and the contrasting eye colours of each subject :http://www.flickr.com/photos/11055123@N07/1925990472/









One night while I was in bed I looked at the curve of my wifes arm and felt that it would be a great staring point for my shoot. I asked her if I could take a photo of the curve of her armpit and she agreed. Her are the results :









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