ARTIST RESEARCH

-NICK TODD

Nick Todd is a photographer that has looked into Human Presence. His photographs are very obvious towards the topic; however I want mine to be a little more subtle. The reason I like this photographer is that he photographs human presence that he sees naturally, rather than making the images staged and putting the things together to create the images. It’s almost like he has walked along the road and witnessed these things left as they are. This is what I want to do within my first couple of shoots and photograph things as I see them. These shoots are going to be taken within the home as it will create and produce the first feelings of family life for my project. I have done a collage of images from quality artists within my book that I really like to inspire me towards my first shoot. This is the photograph of Nick Todd’s that I have been looking at towards this project:

This photograph really captured my eye as it’s a perfect example of finding things that demonstrate a person's presence. There is something within the photograph related to them personally and proves they have been there. This is going to be the concept of my first few shoots and even though I’m doing it within the house, the idea of finding things how they’re left still applies and that’s what I’m taking from Nick Todd and his photography. I also like the fact that his photography is very plain and simple; however gets the message across to the viewers. The only thing I don’t really like about his photography is that the colours are very dull; I want to try and make the most of the colour available to me so that I can produce more interesting photographs. It’s all about experimentation and so I will be playing around with the colours and see what I prefer. It all depends on what mood and angle I decide to look at into family life and what atmosphere I’d like to produce within my photography. Within my first couple of shoots I want to try and capture warm colours, approaching the idea of family life in a positive way and I’ve done some following research on a photographer called William Eggleston whose pictures captured my eye and inspired me through his use of colour.